Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Effective Enterprise Risk Management

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Designed to lead financial managers from initial compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, through ongoing maintenance and monitoring, Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance helps readers seize this opportunity to revitalize their business practice, drive greater performance, and transform their finance organization into a key contributor to the business. Focusing on the present and future financial road ahead, Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance explores how to implement enterprise risk management processes that comply with Sarbanes-Oxley 302/404/409 requirements, ways to build on initial compliance activities that will improve financial management processes and profitability, compliance and quarterly close checklists, timelines, and table summaries to help readers achieve their goals, and much more.

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"Using regulatory compliance to improve processes and enhance the bottom line

Once you establish compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, what's next? Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance guides corporate financial officers and accountants through requirements and value-added activities in enterprise risk management in the post-Sarbanes environment. It demonstrates how to monitor and maintain strong internal control systems within finance and accounting operations. Next, it reveals how to leverage the knowledge harvested through regulatory compliance to improve financial management and make the organization more profitable. Bristling with new ideas on how to identify and mitigate threats to enterprise objectives, this innovative guide shows readers how to build on initial compliance activities to improve financial management processes and profitability."

Information Security: Design, Implementation, Measurement, and Compliance

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Information Security: Design, Implementation, Measurement, and Compliance
Timothy P. Layton
Manufacturer: AUERBACH
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ASIN: 0849370876

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Organizations rely on digital information today more than ever before. Unfortunately, that information is equally sought after by criminals. New security standards and regulations are being implemented to deal with these threats, but they are very broad and organizations require focused guidance to adapt the guidelines to their specific needs. Fortunately, Information Security: Design, Implementation, Measurement, and Compliance outlines a complete roadmap to successful adaptation and implementation of a security program based on the ISO/IEC 17799:2005 (27002) Code of Practice for Information Security Management. The book first describes a risk assessment model, a detailed risk assessment methodology, and an information security evaluation process. Upon this foundation, the author presents a proposed security baseline for all organizations, an executive summary of the ISO/IEC 17799 standard, and a gap analysis exposing the differences between the recently rescinded version and the newly released version of the standard. Finally, he devotes individual chapters to each of the 11 control areas defined in the standard, covering systematically the 133 controls within the 39 control objectives. Tim Layton's Information Security is a practical tool to help you understand the ISO/IEC 17799 standard and apply its principles within your organization's unique context.

Risk Management Solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 IT Compliance

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All About Early 21st Century Risk

Risk Management Solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 IT Compliance
John S. Quarterman
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ASIN: 0764598392

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Examines how risk management security technologies must prevent virus and computer attacks, as well as providing insurance and processes for natural disasters such as fire, floods, tsunamis, terrorist attacks
Addresses four main topics: the risk (severity, extent, origins, complications, etc.), current strategies, new strategies and their application to market verticals, and specifics for each vertical business (banks, financial institutions, large and small enterprises)
A companion book to Manager's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (0-471-56975-5) and How to Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (0-471-65366-7)

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All About Early 21st Century Risk.......2006-06-23

This book is unique, as far as I know, as a very timely analysis on technical issues and their impact on risk management.

Chapter 1 looks at three power laws for scaling networks - Sarnoff, Metcalfe and Reed. Valuing assets is a precursor to any risk management activity. Chapter 2 looks at the differences between traditional risk and Internet-style risks. There is an important distinction in perils and anomalies. Perils are defined as bugs and vulnerabilities. Anomalies are defined as the problems that arise once a vulnerability is exercised. There is also a section on monoculture which compares computing monoculture to bollweevils and other physical world monoculture risks.

Chapter 3 describes high level strategies like redundancy and backups for dealing with risks. These are high level not detailed operational planning, but they are useful for directors to plan what actions manage what risks. Federation is mentioned as having a positive impact on higher assurance integration between service providers and consumers. Another theme is the positive and negative aspects of decentralization, Quarterman concludes it is largely a positive development, and a decade and half into the web, that looks like a safe assumption.

For a book with Sarbanes in its title, there is not a ton of information on compliance. This is not a big a problem for me, since I, like this book, view compliance as a subset of risk management. Chapters 4-8 look at the implications of risk in various business sizes and verticals.

Chapter 6 examines some physical world controls that work fine in the real world but are insufficient in the digital world such as 4 digit PINs for ATMs. This chapter also covers various types of insurance schemes such as Cat Bonds.

Chapter 7 compares Frederick Winslow Taylor (command and control) to John Boyd (smart nodes) and concludes - Taylor Wrong. Boyd Right. Speed and autonomy are more valuable in a networked world. It is often said the important stuff is not exciting, risk management may not be a thrill a minute for everyone, but this book shows why risk management is important to businesses.

Chapter 8 contains an history of technologies, but does not address SOA, Web Services, Web 2.0 et. al in the context of the 5th Wave. Chapter 9 deals with a recurring theme on differentiating between risk inside the perimeter and outside the perimeter and the disparate strategies available. Chapter 10 describes some key differences between SOX (looking for black list items) and Basel II (culture change). Boyd's OODA loop is revisited in the context of self-healing networks. There is a section on the modern military's reliance on the web, which reminded me of a story by Thomas Barnett about how soldiers in Iraq were going into chat rooms to teach other about counterinsurgency. The officers instructed them to stop because Al Qaeda would listen in, the soldier's response:"Al Qaeda already knows this. We are the ones with the knowledge gap." Now the training manuals are being updated.

My favorite part of the book is Cliff Forts versus Coordinated Mesas which detailes the ancient Anasazis Protect-Detect-Respond strategy.

Chapter 11 discerns between first party loss and third party loss. Chapter 12 contains a set of actionable items for companies wanting to improve their risk management.

Overall, a useful window into the current risks and risk management opportunities in the early 21st century.

Enterprise Process Mapping: Integrating Systems For Compliance And Business Excellence

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A High Level Intro Book on Process Mapping
You have to buy the program
Just read Enterprise Process Mapping by Charles Cobb

Enterprise Process Mapping: Integrating Systems For Compliance And Business Excellence
Charles G. Cobb
Manufacturer: ASQ Quality Press
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From Quality to Business Excellence: A Systems Approach to Management
Process Mapping, Process Improvement and Process Management
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ASIN: 0873896432

Book Description

Many books on process mapping are oriented around a traditional manufacturing process control environment. The methodology and tools in this book are applicable to any company in any industry that is interested in developing a much more integrated, systems approach to management to dramatically improve their business. The author's previous book, From Quality to Business Excellence: A Systems Approach to Management, explains the philosophy behind this approach. This book provides the "how to" for achieving that level of visualization with a unique combination of theory and tools showing you how to implement enterprise process mapping in a way that will yield significant business value for your organization.

This book includes a free evaluation copy of Microsoft Visio and a free evaluation copy of the ProcessMaps tool for enterprise process mapping, as well as computer-based training on how to use these tools.

Benefits:

Comply with quality standards, such as ISO 9001:2000, and regulatory requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley.
Develop a unifying view of how an overall business works as a system.
Implement a very high impact, well-integrated and cross-functional systems approach to managing all aspects of the business.
Understand how all processes and tasks within the organization contribute to achieving the company's overall business goals.
Provide a foundation for a systematic and proactive approach to business process improvement that will result in real and tangible improvements in cost and effectiveness.

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A High Level Intro Book on Process Mapping.......2006-02-19

This book dose a good job on describing what is enterprise process mapping and how companies can benefit from mapping their processes. However, I think the discussion on how to conduct process mapping still remains at a pretty high level. The conversions used are not industry standard (I'd like to see a book using UML Activity Diagram 2.0) and the case studies presented are too sketchy (espaceally, the case about SOX compliance). It would be nice if the author can dedicate a chapter to a detailed case to show how to apply the introduced process mapping concepts and techniques. Overall, it is a neat book worth reading.

You have to buy the program.......2005-10-12

This is a book that does not explain how to map your process, if you want to do that you must have to buy the software and must have a Microsoft Visio License.

Just read Enterprise Process Mapping by Charles Cobb.......2005-03-01

This is an excellent book for those readers wishing to use process mapping to understand and improve business processes. The book is well organized and extremely informative. While it concentrates on the "how to" of process mapping it does so in the context of real business applications and is a natural successor to Charles's previous book From Quality to Business Excellence

Managing Governance, Risk and Compliance with Enterprise Content Management

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Managing Governance, Risk and Compliance with Enterprise Content Management
Financial Executives Research Foundation
Manufacturer: Financial Executives Research Foundation
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1933130318

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This research report describes Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology and how it can enable and facilitate corporate governance, risk and compliance processes. It reviews three types of ECM software components that are currently available: Front-end compliance project management; Day-to-day business process improvement and automation; and Back-end document retention and archiving. This FERF Research Series report is being sponsored by Hyland Software, Inc

CFO Leadership Strategies: Industry Leaders on Financial Integrity, Compliance, and Best Practices. (Inside the Minds)

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Aspatore Books
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Release Date: 2005-07-15

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Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the worlds most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book. Chapters Include: James W. Noyce, Chief Financial Officer, FBL Financial Group, Inc. Financial Integrity and Compliance Success; Robert J. Dellinger, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Sprint Corporation Preparing for Financial Risks; G. Marc Baumann, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer, Standard Parking Corporation Keys to Being a Successful CFO; Scot J. Farrell, Chief Administrative Officer, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP The CFO: Assets and Revenue Safeguard; Alfred H. Drewes, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. Adding Value and Ensuring Financial Integrity; Danyelle L. Kennedy-Lantz, Chief Financial Officer, Network Telephone The Art of Being a CFO; Sam B. Bruce, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Star Software Systems Corporation Real-Life CFO Management; Mary Valenta, Chief Financial Officer, ONeal Steel, Inc. Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Solutions in the Manufacturing Industry.

Compliance burnout? Fight it.(regulatory change analysis)(Editorial): An article from: CMA Management

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Compliance burnout? Fight it.(regulatory change analysis)(Editorial): An article from: CMA Management
Robert Colman
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This digital document is an article from CMA Management, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 471 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Compliance burnout? Fight it.(regulatory change analysis)(Editorial)
Author: Robert Colman
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Date: March 1, 2006
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Complying with Executive Order 13148 using the Enterprise Environmental Safety and Occupational Health Management Information System.(TECHNICAL PAPER): ... of the Air & Waste Management Association

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Michael J. McFarland , Tim M. Nelson , Steve L. Rasmussen , Glenn R. Palmer , and Arthur C. Olivas
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Author: Michael J. McFarland
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COSO 2: the big yawn the British enterprise risk regulations are hardly radical. There are no mandatory compliance or legal requirements.(Special Report): An article from: Risk & Insurance

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COSO 2: the big yawn the British enterprise risk regulations are hardly radical. There are no mandatory compliance or legal requirements.(Special Report): An article from: Risk & Insurance
Graham Buck
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This digital document is an article from Risk & Insurance, published by Axon Group on April 15, 2004. The length of the article is 1247 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Author: Graham Buck
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Enterprise Compliance Management (ECM): Bringing Influences Together

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Enterprise Compliance Management

Enterprise Compliance Management (ECM): Bringing Influences Together
James J. Finnegan
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Most of what we do is driven by an effort to be compliant. Hardly a second goes by when we are not complying with some rule, regulation, standard, order, etc. We stop for traffic signals, complete tax forms, credit applications, and so on.

Business further complicates matters by adding another layer of compliance requirements to our lives. These include, just to name a few: standards, contracts, regulations, legislation, management requirements and goals, data and best practices. The challenge is to identify which of these requirements are applicable to the business and translate those needs into compliance products which are created and managed by processes within the operation of the business.

Enterprise Compliance Management (ECM) focuses on a holistic, top-down, business oriented view of compliance. The guide discusses a common sense method for the creation and management of compliance on an enterprise basis with the use of integrated toolsets.

Email JJJF@TheECM.com for more information

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Enterprise Compliance Management.......2004-10-16

Eric Shapiro, editor of iUniverse comments that the ECM Guide is a "valuable tool - full of great wisdom".

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Created by the Legal Education Group in the tradition of world's widely cited and best-selling legal reference, Black's Law Dictionary. The second book in a new series, this handbook includes accurate, clear definitions to more than 3,000 business law key words and phrases.

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Everybody's law book;: Legal rights and legal remedies; with business forms and valuable information...to which is added summaries of state statutes, a ... and a dictionary of legal terms and phrases

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Everybody's law book;: Legal rights and legal remedies; with business forms and valuable information...to which is added summaries of state statutes, a ... and a dictionary of legal terms and phrases
John Alexander Koones
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A Handbook of Business Law Terms (Black's Law Dictionary Series)

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Bryan A. Garner
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