VANCOUVER, CANADA (March 4, 2008) – ACL Services Ltd. has announced the agenda for Connections 2008, the ACL global user conference to be held in Vancouver on April 6-8, 2008. The keynote speaker for this year’s event is Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) president, Carole Switzer, Esq.
ACL Connections 2008 is an annual event that provides training sessions, opportunities to connect with ACL product leaders, news about technology releases, and customer case studies presented by industry leaders from around the world. For the keynote session, Switzer will provide an overview of the OCEG Framework and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) process model, and preview a self-evaluation tool for internal audit that OCEG is developing with some of the world’s leading companies.
OCEG is a non-profit organization that seeks to help organizations drive performance by enhancing corporate culture and integrating governance, risk management, and compliance processes. ACL Services is a member of its Technology Council, and contributes its domain expertise on continuous auditing and monitoring technology alongside organizations such as ACL implementation partner Deloitte and technology partner SAP.
“The multitude of compliance requirements that face enterprises, and the complexities these regulations bring, are growing every year,” says Switzer. “Internal auditors using the right combination of technology can take the lead in shaping organizational efficiencies and defining the path to achieving enterprise-wide compliance.”
ACL technology provides audit professionals with best-of-breed audit and monitoring solutions that access, analyze and test controls within virtually any system and ensure transactions are reviewed on a timely basis.
Additional conference speakers include Joel Kramer from the MIS Training Institute, and ACL customers such as Stephen Sinclair from Union Bank of California, and Shyrl Kennedy from the Corporate Compliance & Monitoring branch of the Government of British Columbia, among others. These sessions will cover the broad spectrum of audit technology – from ad hoc to continuous – and the benefits users have gained from each approach.
About the Open Compliance & Ethics Group (OCEG)
OCEG has a straightforward, ambitious and timely mission: to help organizations align their governance, compliance and risk management activities to drive business performance and promote integrity. OCEG is a nonprofit organization that uniquely seeks to help organizations drive performance by enhancing corporate culture and integrating governance, risk management, and compliance processes through its work in developing guidelines and standards, a community of practice, and evaluation criteria and benchmarks.
www.oceg.org
About ACL Services Ltd.
ACL Services Ltd. is the leading global provider of Audit Analytics to financial executives, compliance professionals, and auditors. Combining market-leading data analysis software and professional services expertise, ACL solutions give organizations confidence in the accuracy and integrity of the transactions and the effectiveness of the internal controls underlying increasingly complex business operations. Since 1987, ACL's proven technology has enabled financial decision-makers to assure controls compliance, reduce risk, detect fraud, minimize losses, enhance profitability, and achieve fast payback. ACL delivers its solutions in more than 140 countries through a global network of ACL offices and channel partners. Our customers include 70 percent of the Fortune 500 companies and over two-thirds of the Global 500, as well as hundreds of national, state, and local governments, and the Big Four public accounting firms.
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For more information, contact:
Beth Hardy, Manager Corporate Marketing
ACL Services Ltd.
Phone: +1-604-974-1425
beth_hardy@acl.com