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Tech giants reveal their agenda: The CEOs of the largest US tech companies this week lobbied the government for protection against patent infringement lawsuits, and for support of several key policies. Technet, the organization representing the chief executives of the largest US tech companies, unveiled its "2008 Innovation Policy Agenda" at an...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Policymaker, Broadband, Agreement, Microsoft TechNet, Internet, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Corporate Governance, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-03-13
How Compliant is YOUR Email Archive?: Failure to archive your emails can have dire consequences for your business. Do any of these regulations impact you? Sarbanes-Oxley SOX Act HIPAA Gramm-Leach Bliley Act GLBA Securities and Exchange Commission SEC Rules National Association of Securities Dealers NASD Rules Investment Dealers...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SEC, NASD, Computhink, E-mail, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Hipaa, Online Communications, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Healthcare; Resource centers 2008-03-01
DeviceLock for Sarbanes Oxley Compliance: Despite its very stringent requirements, SOX has ultimately become the unspoken standard in corporate governance. Even companies that are not listed on US exchanges now prefer to incorporate provisions of this law in order to increase their competitiveness, attract more interest from investors and partners, and better protect their corporate...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SmartLine, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2008-02-19
IT Governance and Controls for FDA & SOX compliance: The single solution: If yours is an FDA regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing firm and you must comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 SOX Section 404 controls for Information Technology IT, then a natural question to ask is: can you combine the IT Controls required for SOX with the measures needed to meet FDA...; Tags: FDA, IT Governance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Federal Government, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Strategy, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Management; Webcasts 2007-11-01
Internal Controls and Governance: Strategies and Controls for SOX Compliance and IT Governance for Small and Medium Business: Publicly-owned Small and Medium Businesses SMBs are subject to the same laws and regulatory mandates that their large counterparts are. This webinar covers some of the common challenges faced by such companies in developing internal controls and points out the classes of internal controls to consider, as well as the...; Tags: Webinar, Information Technology, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, IT Governance, Strategy, Control, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme; Webcasts 2007-11-01

New Plan Excel Realty Trust Integrates Enterprise Content Management Initiatives and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Given its size, New Plan faced a number of challenges related to efficiently managing business content, and exchanging information and documentation with internal and external audiences. New Plan's accounts payable function, for example, relied on manual procedures that required regional offices and corporate headquarters to process invoices. In addition, the...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Accounts Payable, Oracle Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft Excel, Enterprise Content Management, New Plan, Content Management, Web Technology, Sarbanes-Oxley, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies 2007-10-31
Best Practices Under Audit Standard 5: With the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX in 2002, companies have had to dramatically ramp up regulatory compliance efforts. Based on the guidance they received, companies began factoring a compliance check list into almost every process. Controls were designed to cover every possible source of financial reporting fraud. As...; Tags: Financial Reporting, Audit, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Oversight Systems, Best Practice, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Government, Finance; White papers 2007-10-23
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Issues: Compliance issues have always plagued financial businesses, but the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOA of 2002 increased the level of concern companies face concerning accounting and reporting regulations. The law, which applies to all firms that issue securities traded on US securities markets, contains several requirements for firms to comply with. It...; Tags: Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, SOA, Business Communication, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), MessageLabs Ltd., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Web Services, Middleware, Regulations, Enterprise Software, Software, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2007-10-01
Master Customer Data Integration: Regulatory Compliance Meets Revenue Generation in Financial Services: All banking, insurance, and capital markets firms face regulatory requirements for managing their master customer data, yet few have taken advantage of this authoritative source of information for new revenue generation. However, that's beginning to change, as a growing number of firms are recognizing the potential of using their...; Tags: Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Finance, Digital Media, Basel II, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Regulatory Compliance, Data Integration, Revenue Generation, Financial Services Company, Financial Service, Webcast, banking, capital market, compliance, financial, IBM Corp., industry, insurance, line of business, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Webcasts 2007-09-27
Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO: Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTOSOX applies to all companies, not just targeted at Europe"Stick to the subjects you actually have knowledge about."I'll tell you what: We won't censor you and you don't get to silence me. You're getting a lot nastier these days behind the anonymity...; Tags: Free trade, Regulations, Now Let, Adobe PDF, World Trade Organization, tariff, Microsoft Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Discussion threads 2007-09-26
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance 2007 - Click-Through Demo (msi): This is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario summary: SOX solutions based on the 2007 Microsoft Office system facilitate regulatory compliance and sustainable corporate governance by enhancing visibility over financial...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Corporate Governance, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations, Corporate Law; Software downloads 2007-09-20
Xchanging Helps Customers Increase Profit With Sarbanes-Oxley Compliant Procurement Solution: International business process outsourcing company Xchanging plc specializes in handling large, complex, back-office processing services for procurement, financial, and accounting operations. The company wanted to implement a Sarbanes-Oxley compliant procure-to-pay model, capable of processing thousands of secure transactions daily, to win a major new outsourcing contract from a large bank....; Tags: Oracle Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Regulations, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; Case studies 2007-08-01
Improving Intercompany Reconciliation for a Faster Close: In 2007, businesses moved beyond the initial need to comply with legislation like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX and instead focused on driving sustainability and control into their corporate processes. Of the various initiatives supporting this shift, the fast close--a concept used to describe a corporation's ability to complete its accounting...; Tags: Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SAP AG, Reconciliation, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2007-08-01
NEC staff caught faking orders, taking kickbacks: NEC staff caught faking orders, taking kickbacksSOX or No SOXWhy do you think the big rush for private equity firms to take US businesses private...See the shenagains that go on without tight controls on accounting practices and stringent reporting requirements.Yes, but...While you are at it, calculate the incredible cost of...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Truth Telling, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, new entity, NEC Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-05-30
Will Sarbox change ding IT vendors?: Will Sarbox change ding IT vendors?Integrated, not separateAny decent technology consultant incorporates SOX compliance into their solutions that they provide to customers. I often advise my customers on SOX as an additional benefit to whatever technology solution I am providing for them.While there are certainly SOX-dedicated consultants out there,...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Discussion threads 2007-05-24
404: not founded in reality?: 404: not founded in reality?ContextIt seems somehow appropriate that the section number is also the best-known HTTP error code.Ad-hoc user-driven IT budget re-allocationSounds like a nightmare to me. I'm not saying individual departments (or smaller, depending on how you're company chooses to label its organitional units) shouldn't have an...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, good people, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, information technology; Discussion threads 2007-05-22
404: not founded in reality?: Sarbanes-Oxley has proven itself to be a terrific money maker for the accounting andlegal industries in the United States, but the evidence on its effectiveness as aninformation equaliser in the capital markets is ambiguous at best.Here's the soxlaw.com section 404 summary: Issuers are required to publish information in their...; Tags: General, Enterprise Policy; Blog posts 2007-05-21
Compliance: The sarbanes-oxley act: Sarbanes-Oxley (commonly called "SarbOx" or "SOX") is law today. It was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 2002 in the wake of serious accounting scandals perpetrated by major U.S. corporations. It affects the accounting, financial reporting, and tracking of sales activities for large and small public companies alike, and also...; Tags: Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Biscom, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2007-04-17
Hanger Orthopedic Group Uses Idera SQL Compliance Manager to Help With Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Founded in 1861, Hanger Orthopedic Group is the largest provider of orthotic and prosthetic patient care services and products in the US. As an active user of Microsoft's platform, Hanger relies heavily on SQL Server. It serves as the backbone to mission critical applications including the Electronic Data Interchange EDI...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Patient, Billing, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft SQL Server, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, EDI, Regulations, Insurance, Financial Planning, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance; Case studies 2007-03-20
WorkPapers (dmg): WorkPapers is an audit, investigation, and documentation project management electronic working papers program designed for financial auditors, systems auditors, penetration testers, attorneys, investigators, compliance managers, and others. Most recently, WorkPapers has aided in numerous Sarbanes-Oxley internal control testing projects. If you are a Sarbanes-Oxley project manager or an internal audit...; Tags: Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, WorkPapers, Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Accounting, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; Software downloads 2007-03-02