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Even if You're Private: What You Should Know About Sarbanes-Oxley
Becoming familiar with the new corporate governance and disclosure rules applicable to public companies will help a private company prepare for an acquisition by a public company or an IPO. In addition, private companies should take this opportunity to implement best practices and adopt a company culture that is less...
Sarbanes-Oxley and Revenue Recognition Practices
RevenueRecognition.com in association with International Data Corporation IDC surveyed 400 business leaders about compliance processes, ongoing risks, and costs. The survey was conducted by email and all responses were on an anonymous basis. More than 75% of respondents are CFOs, Controllers, senior finance executives, and compliance leaders. The results of...
The Revenue Compliant Enterprise Part One: Achieving Accurate Revenue Accounting, Reporting, and Forecasting
Revenue has become a "hot spot" for auditors and investors. As a result, revenue compliance must become a core competency of every finance department to ensure proper reporting, to produce optimal performance, and to mitigate risk. This white paper describes the key success factors for achieving the Revenue Compliant Enterprise.
Contract Management: An Enterprise Process Perspective
World-class contract management requires that different functional areas perform in a coordinated way across the whole life cycle of a contract. Sales finance, and legal resources may take the lead on hammering out the deal, but operations, accounting, and support must perform over the long term to optimize the associated...
The Impact of Compliance on Finance Operations
This paper reveals about a report that recently surveyed 118 business leaders about how they are responding to the challenges of compliance. The survey was conducted by email and all responses were on an anonymous basis. More than 85% of respondents are CFOs, Controllers, and other senior finance executives. A...
Sarbanes-Oxley: "Taming The Beast" - A Rare CFO Roundtable
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was enacted to address the irregularities present in Corporate Governance mechanisms and corporate accounting practices in organizations. The Act bestows more responsibilities on audit committees with regard to financial analysis and reporting in an organization. The Webcast features Chief Financial Officers from three leading technology...
Making the Jump to Must-Have: Revenue Recognition Moves Up on Corporate Agendas
For years, ERP software vendor Ross Systems made do with a homegrown revenue recognition spreadsheet system. But these days, spreadsheets and manual data entry just don't cut it anymore. This article discusses how robust revenue recognition just jumped from the nice-to-have to the must-have column. It gives a brief idea...
The SOX 404 Checklist: Do You Have "Internal Control" of Your Revenue?
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires proper internal controls and procedures to ensure correct financial reporting of public companies. To ensure compliance the law specifically requires companies to establish internal controls and procedures, certify their completeness and quality, file an Internal Controls Report, and have an external auditor attest to the adequacy...
Sarbanes-Oxley: It Isn't Just About Public Companies Anymore
The passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act heralded sweeping changes for corporate governance and the securities and accounting industries. Enacted in July 2002, and interpreted by several rules promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC, the Act seeks to streamline organizational accounting, financial, and corporate governance practices. The Webcast examines...
Avoiding Revenue Restatements: Revenue Recognition In The World Of Sarbanes-Oxley
From the executive summary: ‘Financial and accounting practices at America's corporations are under intense scrutiny, and every technology company, large and small, is impacted. Recent legislation, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, now pressures executives to examine and find ways to limit corporate risk, and focus attention on corporate governance.’ The...
SOX 404 Readiness: Best Practices From A PWC Perspective
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 calls for inclusion of procedures for financial reporting in the internal control report of an organization. The issue of compliance to Section 404 has generated lot of debate in corporate circles. The Webcast discusses Section 404 ‘best practices’ for tech companies, and...
Sarbanes Oxley: Key Issues For CFOs And CEOs
From the executive summary: ‘The critical impact and objective of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is to raise the bar for the standards of corporate governance. The Act of course addresses many issues, such as the focus on internal controls, the role of the Audit Committee, CFO and CEO, as well as...
Contract Management That Boosts Revenue
The paper highlights that to truly achieve greater efficiency, manage growing volumes of agreements, invoice new and renewable contracts effectively, and at the same time recognize revenue properly, focus on revenue management. Thus by integrating contract management into all the revenue management processes of the organization, one can manage the...
A Review of Earnings Restatements
This article summarizes a doctoral dissertation on an empirical capital market analysis of earnings restatements using a sample covering a quarter century, 1977-2001. Specifically, it investigates the market reaction upon and around restatement announcements, examines the quantitative information and qualitative characteristics of restatements contributing to the market's reaction, and assesses...
Avoiding Revenue Management Surprises
In the present economy, and particularly in the more volatile high-tech industries, there's a tangible need to maintain a highly nimble organization that can incorporate rapidly evolving business models in order to meet the challenges of market-entry opportunities and current market conditions. This means companies will be generating revenue from...
Case Study: Actify
Actify's software enables digital product design data to be shared easily between manufacturers and their suppliers, without requiring expensive computer-aided design CAD software on every desktop. The client needed to consolidate customer data, automate accounting functions and manage the task of providing accurate invoices to resellers in many different countries....
Case Study: Retail Solutions Vendor
This retail solutions vendor provides software and services that manage strategic pricing and inventory management operations for grocery businesses. The retail solutions vendor was a rapidly growing company needing to consolidate and streamline its accounting. The retail solutions vendor was able to meet all of its business requirements for a...
Case Study: Fischer International
Fischer International develops, markets, licenses and supports enterprise messaging, identity management, and mainframe utility software. Fischer was laboring under the inefficiencies of using a desktop accounting package and a series of spreadsheets for all its accounting activities. When international transactions were added, the finance department realized it simply couldn't process...
Case Study: Framework Technologies
Framework Technologies is a leading provider of project collaboration, product innovation and portfolio management solutions, enabling companies in the manufacturing and architecture, engineering and construction AEC markets focus on the key projects paramount to achieving growth objectives. Sustaining rapid growth required that Framework quickly establish efficient processes across the company,...
Case Study: Eze Castle Software
Eze Castle is one of the largest providers of investment management software and solutions, with more than 200 clients, and offices in Boston, London, and New York City. Eze Castle required a sophisticated installations management and billing capability. This requirement was complicated by the fact that customers frequently buy additional...
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