Success Stories & Testimonials

Amy Manthey and Leah Justison share how they use IDEA on almost every audit engagement, from sampling, to journal entry testing, to digging deeper.

Watch a testimonial from the University of Miami Assistant Director Alex Muina explaining how they can do 100% testing based on exception reports that created using IDEA.

BDO USA Director, Mark Mayberry gives a video testimonial of how he uses IDEA, and the benefits it brings his clients & organization.

Sabri Keskin of American Water discusses how IDEA helps to perform large data analysis in a more reliable manner aiding in improved efficiency.

Because of IDEA, Internal Audit Manager Bistra Dimitorva can bring data together from a variety of systems and offices to identify points of interest.

Aaron Boor, IT Audit & Project Automation Manager, shares how IDEA saved him and the internal audit team two weeks on a project.

Alex Marin, CPA and Business Tax Specialist for the California State BOE, explains how IDEA helped him organize large data sets and a variety of taxpayer reports.

Fraud analysis expert Delana D. Spann opens up in her video testimonial about the benefits of using IDEA for real-life audits as well as in the classroom teaching students.

Internal Auditor, Nina del Castillo, explains how IDEA Server allows Lehigh Hanson's audit team spread across the globe to collaborate on data analysis projects.

D. Supkis Cheek compares Excel® & IDEA, as well as, how she has used IDEA to identify fraud schemes to benefit her clients.

Read how Brian Cullum used IDEA to help identify a multi-million-dollar fraud based on the overstatement of the borrower’s lending base.

Learn how RNDr. Maya Maskova of Allianz Pojisovna uses CaseWare IDEA on internal audits and insurance fraud investigations.

A federal agency with a staff of approximately 100 people tasked with processing detailed information about seized assets into the division’s investigative database system and keeping information accurate throughout the entire forfeiture lifecycle.

One of America’s largest private cargo transportation companies has a small audit shop with a team of eight auditors and no data analytics expert on staff.

McConnell & Jones LLP Reduces Sample Selection Time from 8 Hours to 20 Minutes

Chris Peters, CFE, MBA, worked with a specialty hospital that was struggling to analyze all patient information, identify payment compliance and improve contract negotiation, identify discrepancies for financial recovery, and other issues.

GreenSky Loan Servicing Reduces Monthly Statement Review
from Days to Minutes with IDEA.

Stream’s innovative direct sales model has helped the company generate more than $7 billion in total revenue in just ten years.  Each customer bill includes up to 30 data points, and with more than 450,000 customers nationwide, the invoice review process validates hundreds of millions of data points.

In 2014, approximately $31 million was distributed among the 254 Texas counties for the 24 million vehicles registered in the State of Texas. Tarrant County is the third largest county in the state with nearly two million residents.

The Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) conducts multiple administrative investigations each year to ensure policies are being followed, and to ensure programs are used in an ethical, economical, equitable and efficient manner.

The internal audit department of a university with 9,500+ students purchased CaseWare IDEA® to conduct ad hoc reviews of various data sets.

This telecom's internal audit team is leveraging technology to analyze trends, tendencies and patterns within customer and financial data.

Oncor's internal audit team needed to acquire years of data from different environments and formats to help improve processes and efficiency levels.

In this interview Assistant Vice President of Internal Audit, Tim Smith, explains how he has used IDEA® Data Analysis Software for over 10 years and how it currently helps his team of IT auditors on a variety of IT and financial and compliance audits.

AOC's team of experts use technology to optimize financial performance by providing services such as financial reporting, accounting, financial management, financial systems implementation, and audit remediation.

The duplicate research group received new data every month and compared it to the prior year of data to detect duplicate payments, which produced an overwhelming number of duplicates which had already been researched in prior months.

Winters Company Uses IDEA to Verify & Analyze Thousands of Records.

NASDAQ OMX is home to more than 3,400 listed companies with a market value of over $8.5 trillion.

Several full-time employees are assigned to manually upload, cleanse and analyze millions of transactional records. The complex process utilizes several audit staff and hundreds of hours of looking at the data in detail.

Big data was stored across disparate systems in varying formats, including large ERP systems. Auditors worked to identify global anti-corruption, meet regulatory requirements and communicate with teams across the world.

Carrtegra, LLC was approached by a leading academic medical system to help identify duplicates within a vendor master file with nearly 130,000 records.

The vast expanse of the Eagle Ford Shale oilfield has provided ample opportunities for drug and oil cartels who have exploited the area’s network of private roads since 2012. The Texas Attorney General’s Office is investigating several cases of oil theft, totaling tens of millions in losses for oil companies who continue to struggle as barrel prices decrease in value.

See how the Solutions Development team developed an IDEAScript to run frequent tests on accounts payable records, which uncovered multiple misstatements on timesheets, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Bumgardner Morrison uses CaseWare IDEA for large audit engagements because of quality results & comfort with the software.