Case Study: Emirates achieves comprehensive audit coverage and major time savings with ACL

Emirates Airline Gains A More Comprehensive View Of Its Business Operations

Emirates Airline, a global carrier with 30,000 employees and roughly $6B in annual revenue, confronted a major audit challenge: its Internal Audit team had to review more than 300 stations worldwide but relied on manual, spreadsheet-based data preparation and fragmented accounting systems, making the process time-consuming, error-prone and reliant on random sampling.

By implementing ACL data analysis software and custom scripts, the audit team automated data extraction, consolidation and reporting—reducing weeks of manual work to minutes, saving hundreds of labor days, and ensuring complete data coverage. The automation enabled continuous monitoring, deeper, more reliable analysis, standardized reporting and stronger organization-wide assurance, allowing the audit cycle to be accelerated and more areas to be covered.

Emirates

Kalpesh S. Vashi

Information Systems Audit Manager