Requesting the Audit Tape

While conducting a financial audit, the auditor may request the agency to provide an audit tape of the detail transactions for the fiscal year being audited. The agency or the auditor is required to submit a Product Modification Request providing relevant information to OSC Client Support to request the creation of the audit tape, report series C-GL-Audit-Tape.

The agency must provide OSC Technical Applications the range of companies to include on the tape. The audit tape can be created for a range of companies, only certain selective companies or for only a single company.

The basis of accounting of the detail transaction needs to be specified on the Production Modification Request. If the Cash Basis of accounting is needed, the first twelve periods are selected. If the Accrual Basis of accounting is requested, the thirteenth period of accrual adjustments is included with the first twelve periods.

The tape can be created to include only certain types of source module activity for a selected date range. For example, the audit tape can include only NCAS Accounts Payable(AP) Module activity for the month of April, one financial period. This provides the auditors with only the selected detail processing activity.

Once the tape has been created, the tape can be referenced by its data set name.