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Corvelle Drives Concepts to Completion. Monitor Compliance Risks Through Data Analytics. IIA Calgary Luncheon 15 September 2010. Yogi Schulz Biography. Partner of Corvelle Consulting Information technology related management consulting Microsoft Canada columnist & CBC Radio host
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Monitor Compliance Risks Through Data Analytics IIA Calgary Luncheon 15 September 2010
Yogi SchulzBiography • Partner of Corvelle Consulting • Information technology related management consulting • Microsoft Canada columnist & CBC Radio host • PPDM Association board member • Industry presenter: • Project World - 4 years • CIPS Informatics - 7 years • PMI - Information Systems SIG - 2 years • Convergence - 4 years • PPDM Association - several years
PresentationOutline • Business Context • Data Analytics System • Development description • Benefits • Conclusions • Recommendations • Discussion
Business Context • Regulator publishes requirements • Oil & gas industry expected to comply • Some requirements relate tomeasurement and reporting
Business Problem • Current situation: • Challenge maintaining compliance audit coverage • Suspicion of poor compliance • Goals to: • raise level of assurance over state of compliance • raise level of compliance • Approach: • Apply CSOX audit concepts to compliance audit • Improve monitoring through data analytics
Oil & Gas IndustryHigh-Level Data Flow FieldProductionOperations FinancialAccounting FieldDataCapture Alberta’soil & gasregulator RevenueAccounting ProductionAccounting AlbertaEnergy PetroleumRegistryAlberta
Compliance AuditPhilosophy “Trust, but verify” - Ronald Reagan
Continuous auditing • A method used by auditors to perform audit-related activities on a continuous basis • Changes the audit paradigm from periodic reviews of a sample of transactions to ongoing audit procedures that test 100 % of transactions resulting in timely and comprehensive insights into risk and control issues
Data Analytics SystemOverview InputDatastores Data Extract NoncomplianceIndicators ComplianceAnalytics
Data Analytics SystemData Extract Data Extract Alberta’soil & gasregulator FieldInspectionSystem ExtractA - n
Data Analytics SystemData Analytics Extract A ComplianceAnalytics NoncomplianceIndicators Extract B ComplianceAnalytics
Data AnalyticsExamples • High metering difference • Production rate trending up • Puzzling trends in gas flare, fuel, vent, meter difference • Gas production greater than oil production for an oil well • High or low fuel consumption
Data Analytics SystemReporting Noncompliance Indicators OperatorReports Reports ProductionAudit TeamReports
Data Analytics SystemArchitecture Master Reports Data Extract ComplianceAnalytics Transform
Data Analytics System Development • Building the system - a part-time effort • ACL dramatically reduces the amount of code • Significant architecture, design and testing effort
Benefits of ACL forData Analytics development • Cost-effective and rapid development • Adaptable to change as source datastores change • Adaptable to change ACL Compliance Analytics Routines • Encapsulates expert understanding of data relationships in complex datastores • Simple validation of candidate compliance assessment indicators
Benefits of ACL forData Analytics system operation • Formal, fully auditable system • Fully automated operation • Scalable solution
Business benefits of this Data Analytics activity • Assurance over the state of compliance • Feedback to oil & gas operators • Improved data quality for all stakeholders • Comprehensive auditing • Greatly increased auditor productivity • Independent of skilled data analysts
Conclusions • Data Analytics addressed our business challenge • ACL enabled development and operation of our Data Analytics System
Recommendations • Investigate opportunities to employ Data Analytics within your organization • Consider ACL as the technology to implement Data Analytics • Consider ACL for batch Data Analytics applications
Next Steps • Identify datastores to examine • Experiment to identify potential data anomalies • Design, build and test a Data Analytics system • Collect dollars revealed
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Monitor Compliance RisksThrough Data Analytics Corvelle Consulting 700, 205 - 5 Ave. S. W. Calgary, Alberta T2P 2V7 Phone: (403) 249-5255 E-mail: YogiSchulz@corvelle.com Web: www.corvelle.com Yogi Schulz Partner of Corvelle Consulting Information technology related management consulting Microsoft Canada columnist & CBC Radio host Industry presenter PPDM Association board member
Bibliography • Continuous Auditing
Noncompliance Indicator FileRecord Layout • Noncompliance Indicator id • Production Year/Month • Operator BA id • Facility id • Noncompliance supporting data