Integrating Compliance into Business Processes

Integrating Compliance into Business Processes: Process Fragments as Reusable Compliance Controls

A Framework for Integrating Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance into the Systems Development Process

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act introduces a new set of requirements into software development. Corporations need to assess their internal control effectiveness for business processes to show compliance with the act. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for integrating SarbanesOxley compliance needs into software development by mapping the activities of an established framework for internal contro...

Essential Aspects of Compliance Management with Focus on Business Process Automation

Compliance requirements coming from laws, regulations and internal policies constrain how a company may carry out its business. A company must take various different actions for preventing compliance violations and for detecting them. Business processes have to be changed accordingly in order to adhere to these requirements. Manual controls need to be installed in order to affect the work which...

Strategic Contribution of a Business Process to Company’s Performance

The study is aimed at assessing the strategic importance of a business processes for achieving sustainable competitive advantage, therefore, in this article the theoretical approach for measuring the strategic contribution of a business process to an enterprise’s business system is presented.  For evaluating of a business process strategic importance the study proposes the system of economic an...

Detecting Compliance Failures in Unmanaged Processes

The importance and the challenges of detecting compliance failures in unmanaged business processes is discussed and the process of creating and verifying internal controls as a requirement of enterprise risk management framework is explained. The effect of using automated auditing tools to detect compliance failures against internal control points in unmanaged business processes is investigated...