One of the more costly and time-consuming aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance continues to center around Sections 302 and 404, which require CEOs and CFOs to certify the accuracy of quarterly reports and effectiveness of disclosure controls, as well as the efficacy of internal controls over financial reporting.

Up to now, corporations have used tools and processes that are highly manual and disconnected from their financial performance management systems to document and test these internal controls. Such an approach removes a corporation’s financial governance, risk management and compliance processes from the trusted foundation of its consolidation and reporting processes and makes auditing and compliance with Section 302 and 404 difficult and expensive.

Please join us to find out how your company can say goodbye to this costly and fragmented approach and exploit better ways to manage its financial reporting and compliance processes.

This webcast will help you:

• Understand the reasons for the convergence of performance management and financial GRC.
• Gain helpful insights into SOX, its requirements, and recent attempts by the SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to help companies reduce the time and expense associated with Section 404 audits.
• Learn how to use performance management to strengthen the link between producing financial statements and the internal control process.
• Discover how to leverage the financial GRC capabilities in Cartesis 10 Release 2 to drive sustainable GRC, lower the cost of compliance, and deliver fast and trustworthy financial reporting.

Speakers will include:
• Craig Schiff, President and CEO, BPM Partners
• James Fisher, Director of Product Marketing, Cartesis
• Philip Mugglestone, Director of Product Marketing, Cartesis
• Tom Madden, Partner, Ernst & Young

All webcast participants will receive a free copy of IDC’s latest Insight Report: “Cartesis Governance: Performance Management and Compliance Converge and redefine financial oversight.”

Craig Schiff, a pioneer in business performance management, helped create and define the field as it evolved from business intelligence and analytic applications into BPM. Schiff has worked with BPM and related technologies for over 20 years and is a frequent author on BPM topics and monthly columnist for DM Review, regular contributor to the B-Eye Network and led several jointly produced webcasts with Business Finance Magazine

As product marketing director at Cartesis, James Fisher has over 10 years of experience in the enterprise group reporting and performance management industry. Fisher held previous EMEA marketing and consulting roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG, during which time he drove a number of leading global performance management research initiatives and advised global companies, best practice groups, industry bodies and government on best practices for financial reporting and disclosure.

Philip Mugglestone is a Product Marketing Director with over 15 years' experience in the enterprise financial reporting and performance management industry. Philip held previous EMEA marketing, pre-sales and consulting roles at SAS Institute and Panorama Software, and advises customers on best practices in performance management, analytics and compliance.

Tom Madden, a partner in the Metro New York Area Risk Advisory Services (RAS) practice, has over 14 years of diversified experience providing advisory services to a variety of industries. He is the leader of the New York Application Controls and Security (AC&S) practice, focused on helping companies better manage the business and technology risks related to their investments in software applications and the technology platforms that support them. He is also a thought leader with regard to SOX compliance and Continuous Control Monitoring. Tom is also a member of Ernst & Young’s Global ERP Steering Committee. In this role, he is responsible for providing thought leadership and strategic direction regarding the firm’s ongoing development of ERP-related service offerings, tools and training methodologies. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). He has a B.S. in Accounting from LaSalle University