Business executives face increasing pressure to ensure that their organizations run not only competitively but that they also conform to increasing regulation designed to protect investors and customers and to ensure transparency and better business ethics. New legislation in the USA, known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, has recently been passed in an attempt to provide improved controls on financial audits and improved processes to avoid 'oversights'. Implementing the rules enshrined in Sarbanes-Oxley is going to be a high-level activity in many companies. Success will depend on not only on improving business processes but also crucially on how well information is controlled.
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