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• High-Performance Revenue Agencies in the Future

  BNET - 2005-05-02

  Revenue agencies are renowned as leaders of innovation in government. They interact more frequently with more people in the community than other government agencies, and therefore have been quick to seek and achieve higher levels of performance through major productivity gains by reinventing processes and leveraging information technology. This paper...

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• Receivables Management and Collection Enforcement

  BNET - 2005-05-02

  Faced with unprecedented fiscal challenges, governments are compelled to deliver services at minimum costs. One approach to cost management is to reduce spending. However, an often-overlooked approach is to increase revenue generation through the implementation of more efficient collection processes. This paper illustrates that a comprehensive approach to innovating and...

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• The Five Essential Elements of a Streamlined Sales Tax System

  BNET - 2005-05-02

  The Streamlined Sales Tax Project is an effort created by state governments, with input from local governments and the private sector, to simplify and modernize sales and use tax collection and administration. Both governments and businesses must commit to uniform definitions, uniform sourcing rules, implementation of the new technologies, continuing...

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• Consolidating With Compliance

  BNET - 2004-12-10

  Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act will force companies to make fundamental changes in their financial processes to regain efficiency lost in a more formal control environment. Legal and financial consolidation is one area ripe for change. This article asserts companies can and should shift from traditional bottoms-up, sequential consolidation...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial, Compliance, Financial Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley, Finance, Regulations, Government

• Planning and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

  BNET - 2004-04-21

  Planning and budgeting does not play an explicit role in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but this article expects auditors will pay closer attention to this function once companies pass the initial round of section 404 certification for two reasons. First, companies that execute the forecasting, planning and review cycle typically have a...

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• Compliance - Process and Technology

  BNET - 2003-09-23

  The intent of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act framers was to force companies to ensure that their financial reporting systems did what they were always supposed to do. For this reason, complying with the law has focused CFOs on examining and documenting processes and changing them as necessary. This paper supports the...

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• Process-Based Approach to Compliance

  BNET - 2003-09-23

  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOA was designed to send a message to business that corruption will no longer be tolerated in any form, and companies are getting the message. In addition to regulations that require CEOs and CFOs to certify their financial statements, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued tighter...

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• Sarbanes-Oxley and BPM: Selecting Software That Will Enhance Compliance

  BNET

  Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act became law in 2002, companies have been scrambling to update their financial reporting processes. Forward-looking businesses have turned to BPM systems to facilitate ongoing compliance. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX went into effect in July 2002; since then, it has had a far-reaching and complex impact on...

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