Patent ID: 7945490

Claim:
A method of presenting aggregate financial impact information for handling asset discrepancies, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more computer systems, a plurality of asset exceptions generated in response to identifying assets represented in a financial system that do not have corresponding physical asset information in an asset discovery system, each asset exception corresponding to financial asset information for an asset represented in the financial system identified as not have corresponding physical asset information for the asset in the asset discovery system; determining, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, an aggregate financial impact for all asset exceptions of a first type based on the corresponding financial asset information for each asset of the first type, the aggregate financial impact indicating a financial impact of retiring all asset exceptions of the first type in the financial system; generating, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, information configured for displaying the aggregate financial impact for all asset exceptions of the first type together with first functionality enabling a first user of the one or more computer systems to perform at least one of routing the asset exceptions of the first type to a second user of the one or more computer systems and storing the plurality of asset exceptions in a storage device associated with the one or more computer systems for later retrieval after investigating a status of the asset; and in response to input provided by the first user via the first functionality, routing the asset exceptions of the first type to a second user of the one or more computer systems with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems or storing the plurality of asset exceptions in a storage device associated with the one or more computer systems for later retrieval after investigating a status of the asset.