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Sarbanes-Oxley Spurs ERM

Finance chiefs at life insurance companies are responding to provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by boosting their Enterprise Risk Management ERM practices, according to a survey by Tillinghast-Towers Perrrin, the risk management consulting firm. Fifty-three percent of 30 life insurance CFOs responding to the Web survey said they were reacting...

Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, ERM, Life Insurance, CFO, Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Insurance, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Planning, Regulations, Business Security, Business Operations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Corporate Insurance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2003-02-05

Enterprise Risk Management And Improved Shareholder Value

The intent of this paper is to raise awareness of enterprise risk management as a strategy for complying with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and also for improving shareholder value based on improved performance. These two objectives have converged with previously unconnected initiatives driven by Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOA, Committee Of Sponsoring Organizations of...

Tags: Shareholder, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Basel II, Business Security, Business Operations, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Financial Services

White papers 2006-09-05

Enterprise Risk Management And Technology

A lot has been said over the last two years about the role technology can play in Enterprise Risk Management ERM. Much of the discussion has focused on very specific issues where technology plays a role in the ever-present Sarbanes OXley compliance process SOX. Often, the role of technology is...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Technology, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, Insurance, Regulations, Financial Planning, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Security, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

White papers 2005-05-01

The Ripple Effect Internal Audit's Role In Sarbanes-Oxley

The framework, prepared for the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission COSO, details the essential components of enterprise risk management and the context in which they are effectively implemented. Key concepts that relate to the effective application of the principles and components are outlined. A recent Act contains...

Tags: Financial Reporting, Audit, Internal Control, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Texas State Auditor, Act, Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Planning, Business Security, Business Operations, Finance

Presentations 2003-01-01

Building Enterprise Risk Management On The Foundation Laid by Sarbanes-Oxley

Businesses have always faced a variety of risks, but these days the pace of change and the resulting risks seem to be even greater than ever. Today many risks are among a continually changing profile of risks that have not only financial implications but strategic and operational impacts as well....

Tags: Risk, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy, Business Security, Business Operations, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management

White papers 2003-01-01

Sarbanes-Oxley Offers One More Reason To Tackle Enterprise Risk Management

Under Sarbanes-Oxley, the audit committee is mandated to understand how it assesses and handles the risks confronting the company. All the risks have to be identified and mitigation strategies for those risks should not be retained. The article talks about expert's approach to risk management, which illustrates the difference between...

Tags: Risk, CFO Publishing Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Strategy, Financial Planning, Regulations, Security, Financial Services, Business Security, Business Operations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Management

White papers 2003-06-01

Fear Factor: Sarbanes-Oxley Offers One More Reason To Tackle Enterprise Risk Management

Article explores that traditional risk management works best on financial and hazard risks, the risks that are transferable. ERM, by contrast, stresses the management of operational and strategic risks. A bank's operational risk would be its back office, in terms of how its payments are made and its credit-underwriting processes...

Tags: Risk, CFO Publishing Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, ERM, Risk Management, Strategy, Enterprise Risk Management, Security, Management, Business Security, Business Operations

White papers 2003-06-01

Commitment to Excellence Fuels Enterprise Risk Management at First Data

First Data Corporation First Data has been making commerce more convenient, efficient and secure for more 150 years. Before the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the company tasked a team with identifying and evaluating risk. The company had experienced a few surprises and wanted to assess the impact of risk on an enterprise...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, First Data Corp., Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Business Security, Business Operations, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers

Beyond the Obvious: Making Room for IT at the ERM Table

If executives and audit committee members think about enterprise risk management, they typically think about it in terms of business risks and impacts: failure to meet sales objectives or turnover in key positions. That is assuming they think about enterprise risk management at all. But in this, the Sarbanes-Oxley era,...

Tags: Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, ERM, Protiviti, Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Sales Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Business Security, Business Operations, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Sales

White papers 2005-09-08

The Forrester Wave: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Software, Q1 2005

Sarbanes-Oxley SOX compliance is a rapidly maturing software category that combines enterprise content management, analytics, and enterprise applications. Three criteria provide significant differentiation among the SOX offerings evaluated: integration, collaboration, and reporting and monitoring. The user interfaces also vary widely in capability and ease of use. OpenPages emerged as the...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Paisley Consulting Inc., Openpages Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Security, Business Operations

Research reports 2005-04-07