Technology

Pedro Carrera thought he had stitched together a pretty secure information technology system at RailAmerica Corp. over the last few years. In fact, Carrera—SAP manager at the $395.6 million regional rail service provider—had even installed advanced systems to facilitate continuous monitoring of the company’s security and controls. Of course, that’s precisely when Carrera discovered just […]

Now that the Securities and Exchange Commission has officially encouraged corporations to file financial statements using intelligent “XBRL” formatting, you might think the “Next Big Thing” in financial reporting has arrived. You would be wrong. Despite prodding from information technology vendors and the SEC’s first tentative steps to embrace it, most chief financial officers still […]

Is there a governance issue when a company takes a long time to close its books? We’re not talking about being so late that it must file for an extension. We mean, taking more time than it should if it simply implemented certain changes? Some experts believe the answer is yes. According to a recent […]

Downloadable Excel spreadsheet includes a list of recent “customer wins” by providers offering compliance-related products and services to U.S. public companies.

This “case study” is the latest in a series of articles aimed at helping public companies understand how other organizations are using technology to comply with new regulations and standards. These are not advertisements or marketing vehicles for the companies mentioned; Compliance Week’s editorial staff speaks with the public company that has deployed the technology, […]

A series of articles aimed at helping public companies understand how other organizations are using technology to comply with new regulations and standards.