Mansi Paun

You’ve explained the controlled environment really well, Deepali. I’d like to add that within Safeguarding IT Infrastructure, the below activities are extremely critical to gauge the level of Control within the organization :

1) Tracking and maintaining Issues and Risks
2) Timely Server patching activities
3) Accurate On and Offboarding…[Read more]

Well put, Deepali – I agree with your point and second you. While SOX has been effective in limiting instances of fraud, it surely isn’t 100% effective. A good law firm would easily be able to find loopholes in SOX and keep its client safe from being charged with fraud. It is these loopholes and grey areas that need working on to make SOX more effective.

In my opinion, while the Sarbanes-Oxley Act helped in making the Executive Management accountable for the lapses in control measures and in turn reducing instances of Fraud in the Finance industry, it certainly isn’t sufficient or there wouldn’t have been other cases of fraud after the law came in effect.

Did it achieve the goal of reduction in…[Read more]

My response to Q1 (Describe a business process you have experienced (either as an external or internal participant) and what your role was.)

I was involved in Service Delivery Account Management as a Transition Project Manager and over saw the end-to-end Project Management process for the Transition. At a broad level, the process can be broken…[Read more]