| Telecom audits are of several types, such as telecom | | | | companies are being compared, telecom audits are |
| bill audits and internal telecom audits. The purpose of | | | | extensively used. The telecom audits here help |
| these audits is to make sure that the information | | | | aggregate the costs of the solutions of both the |
| provided in the statement or the report is accurate and | | | | companies so that comparisons can be made |
| no false practices have been used. Telecom bill and | | | | between them and when a company is trying to |
| invoice auditing deals with the checking of the | | | | reduce its telecom costs it can look at this audit and |
| information provided on the invoice or the bill from the | | | | choose the company with more benefits and a |
| telecom services provider to see if it is correct and | | | | cheaper rate. |
| factual. Internal telecom auditing can be of two types. | | | | Another way telecom audits assist in Telecom |
| First of all the auditing can be used to check the | | | | Expense Management is to provide details of the |
| quotes of the expenditures on telecom of different | | | | telecom expenditures of either all the departments in a |
| departments of a company. This measure would try | | | | big corporation or the individual telecom expenses of |
| to eradicate any wrongdoing on a personal level in the | | | | an employee in a smaller company. This helps the |
| establishment. Secondly the internal telecom auditing | | | | Telecom Expense Management advisor see where |
| could be used to recreate the expenditure on telecom | | | | the money is being wasted and he or she can then |
| of the company and the purpose for this would be to | | | | come up with measures to reduce the expenditure on |
| compare the audit with the bill or invoice presented by | | | | telecom for the company as a whole. This helps the |
| the telecommunications service provider. | | | | company use the money saved for a wide variety of |
| Telecom invoice audits also check if the tariffs used | | | | uses such as development and expansion. |
| by the telecom service providers are correct and | | | | Telecom audits can either be manual or software |
| abide by a previously signed agreement. Often | | | | assisted. Manual telecom auditing is primarily used in |
| telecom companies make changes to their general | | | | small companies where there is not enough work to |
| tariff and include those changes in the invoices of | | | | make telecom auditing software worthwhile. Telecom |
| companies with which they have already got a | | | | auditing software is mostly used in large corporations |
| previous agreement agreeing to a fixed rate. It is then | | | | which do not have a problem in paying for custom |
| the task of the auditors to notify the telecom services | | | | made programs designed according to their needs. |
| provider of these irregularities and request a new | | | | The software can help them for various purposes |
| invoice. | | | | such as automatic auditing of the digital invoice from |
| Telecom audits are thus a fundamental part of | | | | the telecom company and checking it for irregularities. |
| Telecom Expense Management. In order to decrease | | | | The software can also conduct automated analysis of |
| the money spent on telecom bills, the information | | | | the telecom expenses in several different |
| should be checked to ensure that it is correct and this | | | | departments in order to find more information about |
| prevents any funds from being wasted due to | | | | where the telecom budgets can be squeezed without |
| irregularities. Also, when the solutions of two different | | | | any loss in output. |