Article in Proceedings INPROC-2006-81

BibliographyAgrawal, Rakesh; Johnson, Christopher M.; Kiernan, Jerry; Leymann, Frank: Taming Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Internal Controls Using Database Technology.
In: Liu, Ling (ed.); Reuter, Andreas (ed.); Whang, Kyu-Young (ed.); Zhang, Jianjun (ed.): Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering -- ICDE '06..
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
english.
IEEE Computer Society, January 2006.
DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2006.155.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.2.4 (Database Management Systems)
K.4.1 (Computers and Society Public Policy Issues)
Abstract

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act instituted a series of corporate reforms to improve the accuracy and reliability of financial reporting. Sections 302 and 404 of the Act require SEC-reporting companies to implement internal controls over financial reporting, periodically assess the effectiveness of these internal controls, and certify the accuracy of their financial statements. We suggest that database technology can play an important role in assisting compliance with the internal control provisions of the Act. The core components of our solution include: (i) modeling of required workflows, (ii) active enforcement of control activities, (iii) auditing of actual workflows to verify compliance with internal controls, and (iv) discovery-driven OLAP to identify irregularities in financial data. We illustrate how the features of our solution fulfill Sarbanes-Oxley requirements using several real-life scenarios. In the process, we identify opportunities for new database research.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, Architecture of Application Systems
Entry dateApril 30, 2008
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