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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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ALSO CALLED: Sarbox, Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002, SOX, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404, Section 404, Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act, Sarbanes Oxley Act, Sarbanes Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Sarbanes Oxley Law
DEFINITION: SOX Section 404 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404) mandates that all publicly-traded companies must establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting and must document, test and maintain those controls and procedures to ensure their effectiveness. The purpose of SOX is to reduce the possibilities of corporate fraud by increasing the stringency of procedures and requirements for financial  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Building a Best-Run Finance Organization
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008
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Thinking Outside the Checkbox: How Continuous Compliance Delivers Measureable Value
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WEBCAST: Compliance used to be a periodic and mostly manual project driven by audit dates and deadlines. But those days are gone. Security threats to IT systems are real-time and ongoing.
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Podcast: Thinking Outside the Checkbox-How Continuous Compliance Delivers Measureable Value
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
PODCAST: Does "periodic" compliance work? Security threats are real-time and continual. Change occurs overnight. Government mandates and industry regulations can be a year behind the threat curve.
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 | Premiered: 21 Apr 2009
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SAP Data Archiving: The First Step toward Managing the Information Lifecycle: Best Practices for SAP ILM to Improve Performance, Compliance and Cost
sponsored by Dolphin Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin's best practices approach to an effective, long-term ILM strategy.
Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009
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Laws, regulations and compliance: Top tips for keeping your data under your control
sponsored by Sophos Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the rules, looks at the main threats to security compliance and highlights how a well-defined strategy, backed up by powerful technology, can provide the solution.
Posted: 22 Dec 2008 | Published: 22 Dec 2008
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Turn SOX Compliance into Cash: Link Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements to Business Improvement.
sponsored by Oversight Systems
WHITE PAPER: Successful quality and compliance is a continuous improvement process that demands a closed-loop control structure. Oversight Systems provides results and a leveraged environment for improving quality in financial operations.
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008
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A Leading Power Utility Reaches for Transactional Efficiency
sponsored by Oversight Systems
WHITE PAPER: In this case study, a leading power utilities company had a substantial amount of money being paid out in duplicate payments and auditor's fees. Read how Oversight Systems, Inc. helped them rein it all in.
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008
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Global Best Practices in Email Security, Privacy and Compliance
sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations. This paper examines such a solution.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008
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Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security
sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Outbound email and other electronic communications pose a significant risk for data loss or leakage. This white paper will examine the new email security and compliance challenges and ways to address them.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 10 Jul 2008
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Enterprise Performance Management - Financial Excellence and Beyond
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Read why top CFOs are shifting from their traditional financial role dealing with standardized business processes and systems to that of change agent and strategic advisor to the CEO.
Posted: 21 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Bitpipe Industry Guide: Government
sponsored by Bitpipe
WHITE PAPER: Are you up to date on Government policies, regulations and agencies? You need to be informed about government-related subject areas, including National, State and Local Governments and Government Agencies, Government Information Security, and Compliance.
Posted: 13 Feb 2006 | Published: 13 Feb 2006
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Bitpipe Industry Guide: Financial Services Industry
sponsored by Bitpipe
WHITE PAPER: The Financial Services Industry pervades the entire IT industry. This guide gets you up to speed on essential financial areas such as Regulatory Compliance, Business Continuity, Financial Reporting, and Financial Management.
Posted: 22 Jan 2006 | Published: 10 Jan 2006
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SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 DEFINITION (continued): …  reporting.Getting started with SOX To explore how the SOX is used in the enterprise, here are some additional resources: Five steps for SOX compliance Having trouble getting compliant with SOX 404? Follow these five steps to get you on the right track towards SOX compliance. Using virtualization for compliance efforts Are you looking for a way to ease the burden of meeting compliance requirements? Learn how financial-services firms can use virtualization to assist with compliance efforts. FISMA and SOX Why are there still breaches of confidentiality when FISMA and … 
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