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ALSO CALLED: SOX Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404, Section 404, Sarbanes Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley
DEFINITION: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (often shortened to SOX) is legislation enacted in response to the high-profile Enron and WorldCom financial scandals to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in the enterprise. The act is administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which sets deadlines for compliance and publishes rules on requirements.  … 
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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Reports
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Enhancing Governance, Risk, and Compliance through Effective Access Risk Management
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
ANALYST REPORT: This newly released Aberdeen Group Analyst Report Enhancing GRC through Effective Access Control details effective risk management techniques.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Sarbanes-Oxley and Sage ERP Separating Fact from Fiction
sponsored by Sage Software
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is designed to help companies, large, small, public, and nonpublic, navigate some of the “hype” that sometimes blurs the line between fact and fiction surrounding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

Sage Software

Governance and control: Focus risk management on multiple levers of control
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Written by Jeremy Hope from Beyond Budgeting Round Table, this paper describes how CFOs should set the highest standards of ethical reporting and behavior.
Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

IBM

Securing critical data and IT infrastructure in healthcare environments
sponsored by Intel and HP
WHITE PAPER: Through a robust intrusion prevention reference architecture as detailed in this white paper, the HP TippingPoint IPS helps healthcare organizations get a high level of security and privacy of patient information while providing legitimate access to data and high availability.
Posted: 15 Sep 2011 | Published: 15 Sep 2011

Intel and HP

Twenty-three reasons why companies choose integrated XBRL
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how companies around the world must determine how they will approach compliance with the mandated use of XBRL. Learn the proper approach to accelerate financial reporting, decrease errors, streamline processes and ultimately, lower costs.
Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

IBM

Data Archiving: The First Step Toward Managing the Information Lifecycle
sponsored by Dolphin
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for a discussion of 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: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 25 Feb 2010

Dolphin

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: 08 Jun 2009

SAP America, Inc.

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: 05 Jun 2009

SAP America, Inc.

Data De-duplication and Replication Gives AIG Better Backups and Enhanced Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
CASE STUDY: AIG major business challenge was the rapid access to archive data so to overcome this problem AIG tried Quantum backup solutions that combined data de-duplication disk, tape, due to which the company is now able to enhance compliance.
Posted: 12 Jun 2008 | Published: 12 Jun 2008

Quantum Corporation
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SARBANES-OXLEY COMPLIANCE DEFINITION (continued): …  Sarbanes-Oxley is not a set of business practices and does not specify how a business should store records; rather, it defines which records are to be stored and for how long. The legislation not only affects the financial side of corporations, it also affects the IT departments whose job it is to store a corporation's electronic records. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act states that all business records, including electronic records and electronic messages, must be saved for "not less than five years." The consequences for non-compliance are fines, imprisonment, or both. IT departments are increasingly … 
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