Compliance (Finance) Research
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The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls
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The Future of Financial Reporting: A Market Perspective
Sponsored by: Oracle Corporation UK LtdFollowing on the heels of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and others, global investors are demanding stricter corporate governance and compliance requirements for publicly held companies. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the issues, principles, and technologies underlying new requirements in corporate governance.
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eBook: Understanding GRC
Sponsored by: TechTargetThis in depth eBook explores all facets of GRC from the complexities of evaluating the right solution for your organization to implementing governance frameworks. Download this exclusive resource today and stay ahead of the GRC curve.
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A Tour of HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseThis white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop remediation plans.
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Automated Compliance: Making the Case and Reaping the Rewards
Sponsored by: Tripwire, Inc.Regulatory compliance is a priority that never goes away for banking institutions. In this podcast, learn about the core competencies of regulatory compliance and the regulatory compliance trends to watch for in 2009.
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Addressing Compliance Initiatives with Center for Internet Security Benchmarks
Sponsored by: Tripwire, Inc.This whitepaper details the background you need to build an effective compliance program by understanding benchmarks, the basic building blocks of compliance initiatives. You'll learn about the benchmarks specified by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), which are often used as a starting point for creating a compliance initiative.
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Laws, regulations and compliance: Top tips for keeping your data under your Control
Sponsored by: Sophos UKThe challenges of complying with government, industry and internal regulations designed to protect data is becoming harder and more expensive to manage. This paper outlines the rules, looks at the main threats to security compliance and highlights how a well-defined strategy, backed up by powerful technology can provide the solution.
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Critical Technologies for Compliance and Risk Management
Sponsored by: Siperian, Inc.Due to the financial meltdown in the mortgage-backed securities industry, new compliance requirements will be implemented. Read this paper to find out how organizations can ensure compliance with stricter regulations and manage risk appropriately so the business does not slip into non-compliance resulting in negative publicity or punitive fines.
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Sustaining Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Best Practices to Mitigate Risk, Automate Compliance, and Reduce Costs
Sponsored by: Tripwire, Inc.To successfully sustain compliance, organizations must implement best practices to ensure IT systems not only achieve a known and trusted state but they also maintain that state. Check out this white paper to learn how Tripwire solutions enable organizations to achieve and sustain SOX compliance.
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IBM Tivoli Security User Compliance Management Demo
Sponsored by: IBMThis demonstration shows how Tivoli's security management products work together to provide an audit trail of unauthorized access when an IT administrator logs in to a human resource database containing sensitive information.
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Compliant Statement Archiving and Presentment for Financial Services
Sponsored by: EMC CorporationRead this white paper to learn how, by adapting a managed approach to archiving and presenting customer statements, financial services organizations can satisfy regulatory, good governance, and legal requirements.
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The "Hard Truths" About Managing Administrative and Application Identities
Sponsored by: CyberArk Software, IncThis videocast will examine the "hard truths" around managing administrative and application identities and suggest a practical approach to include privileged identity management in your overall governance, risk management and compliance strategy.
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Best Practices in Performance Measurement and Reporting: Understanding the Global Investment Performance Standards
Sponsored by: Advent Software, IncThis whitepaper, written in conjunction with Ashland Partners, explains the steps to becoming Global Investment Performance Standards compliant.
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Hedge Funds: Why Comply? - A Practical Guide to Developing a Culture of Compliance
Sponsored by: Advent Software, IncThis white paper written by Advent Software outlines how hedge funds can create a "culture of compliance" with best practice ideas for accurate record keeping and reporting, transparency in operations and, putting the interests of investors first.
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Facilitating Enterprise PCI DSS Compliance - Executive Summary
Sponsored by: GlobalscapeThe GlobalSCAPE HS-PCI solution provides a comprehensive mechanism to quickly bring your organization into compliance with key requirements.
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Effective Data Governance in Banking
Sponsored by: IBM Software GroupThis paper reviews the main issues facing today's banks, as well as an approach to designing, implementing, managing and maintaining an effective data governance support structure - all while helping banks maintain compliance to government regulations.
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Practical Guide to Understanding and Complying with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Sponsored by: Ecora SoftwareNew whitepaper on GLBA - learn key steps for validating compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the background of GLBA - what it is and who must adhere, and how senior management and IT departments must ensure that customer data is safeguarded.
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Lessons Learned: Top Reasons for PCI Audit Failure and How to Avoid Them
Sponsored by: VeriSign, IncThe drive to protect credit card data is vital, but many companies have yet to implement technologies and processes needed to address Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. This white paper examines top reasons for PCI failure and how to avoid them.