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Posted in Change Management, Compliance, Process Mapping on Jul 29th, 2011
This week’s blog sees Dan Anderton guest blogging for us on the SOX Compliance front again. His detailed articles will be a help to anyone looking for help with their SOX project. Have a great weekend. Mike Cunningham The problems with setting goals Posted in Change Management, Process Discovery, Process Mapping, Project Management on [...]
Posted in Compliance on Jul 26th, 2011
HOW TO EVALUATE THE OPERATING EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR COMPANY LEVEL MONITORING CONTROLS AND DRAW CONCLUSIONS (Part 2 or 2) As part of your SOX compliance efforts, don’t forget about your Company level monitoring controls. Instead of merely highlighting what Company level monitoring controls are, I thought it would be more informative to share an actual [...]
Posted in Compliance on Jul 25th, 2011
HOW TO EVALUATE AND CONCLUDE ON THE OPERATING EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR COMPANY LEVEL MONITORING CONTROLS (Part 1 or 2) As part of your SOX compliance efforts, don’t forget about your Company level monitoring controls. Instead of merely highlighting what Company level monitoring controls are, I thought it would be more informative to share an actual [...]
Posted in Compliance on Jul 22nd, 2011
Hope you enjoy the postings this week, in particular those from Dan Anderton on SOX Compliance applications. Before You Start Your Sox Process Perform A Detailed Risk Assessment To Focus Your Efforts To Reduce Time And Cost Posted in Compliance on Jul 21st, 2011 Prior to starting your SOX compliance efforts, you should perform [...]
Posted in Compliance on Jul 21st, 2011
Prior to starting your SOX compliance efforts, you should perform a detailed risk assessment to focus management’s evaluation and assessment efforts on those areas that could result in a material misstatement in the financial statements. We suggest that the risk assessment process should include: (1) Establish Materiality: Establishing materiality to conclude whether deficiencies identified in [...]
Posted in Compliance on Jul 20th, 2011
Planning is an extremely important part of your SOX compliance process. Not only will it help you plan out the path ahead, but it becomes a valuable starting place for discussing the project with your auditors and audit committee. The planning process is a valuable time to form consensus, formalize the compliance plan and define [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Jun 9th, 2011
Harvard Computing Group Releases SOX Compliance Solution Linking Best Practices and SOX Process Maps After many months of development and testing, we are pleased to announce the release of our latest vertical solution for SOX compliance applications. Our partner SOX XPRESS, LLC, is a long time provider of SOX software and consulting. If you like [...]
Posted in Change Management, Process Improvement, Project Management on Feb 16th, 2011
With the burden of compliance especially challenging for middle-to-small sized companies, knowing what questions to ask and having a benchmark to gauge readiness is critical to understanding how big the SOX compliance project is going to be. We have been working our our one of our business partners on a new Edition of TaskMap that [...]
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