Last week, we reported that $25.1 billion PepsiCo had purchased internal control and assurance software from Nth Orbit. That news was followed by an announcement a few days ago that $24.6 billion Viacom will use OpenPages’ SOX Express for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Amidst these and other internal control software announcements, we decided to ask industry expert […]
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Electronic Filing and the EDGAR System: A Regulatory Overview
Below is the complete text of an outline prepared by staff members of the SEC Divisions of Corporation Finance and Investment Management to aid electronic filers. Compliance Week has also made available a downloadable PDF version of the outline, which can be found in the box in the right-hand column. Overview In early 1993, the […]
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Complexity, Integration Are Barriers To Compliance
Buried deep in a recent study of financial-services compliance was some interesting information about typical barriers that prevent companies from achieving “first-rate” compliance. Most of the data collected in the study, which was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Economist Intelligence Unit, was focused on financial institutions, and was therefore not entirely relevant to most CW […]
