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Posted in Change Management, Compliance, Law Processes, Process Mapping, Project Management on Feb 3rd, 2012
Teaching and communicating others about your processes might seem like a no brainer for most of us, yet many look at processes and employee training as separate items. If investment is made in developing and successfully documenting processes, it makes perfect sense to communicate those processes to those that need them. Training new staff, linking [...]
Posted in Change Management, Compliance, Legal processes, Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on Nov 3rd, 2011
My mother used to chide me “Michael, self praise is no praise at all!”. When I congratulated myself on achieving something as a child; or if the truth be known, also as a adult. Well at the risk of invoking her comments from heaven, I will congratulate the team and myself on our first full [...]
Posted in Change Management, Compliance, Process Analysis, Process Discovery, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Project Management on Sep 27th, 2011
We have just added a great new resource to the BPM Blog, with over 250 topics and posts out there we thought it would be helpful for you to find topics of interest and not just use the search engine. Here is the link http://taskmap.com/wordpress/bpm-blog-sitemap/ The BPM Blog site Map will help you find topical [...]
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 [...]
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