Dealing with Sarbanes-Oxley, the Combined Code, international accounting standards, data protection law and even the Basel II banking accords requires more than just a tweak to existing accounting packages, as has been the case in the past.
The new standards affect technology systems, people and processes right across the enterprise. Business applications as diverse as customer databases, content management applications, collaboration tools and HR may have to be knitted together and processes documented to show where authority and accountability lie.
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