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Free Article Archive:

Four Secrets to Passing Any Business Audit : How the Best Companies Routinely Pass Audits

Data Auditing Quiz : Does Your Data System Prove You're Innocent?

How to Champion an Agile Compliance Effort : 6 Critical Tips For Not Shooting Yourself In The Foot

Using Web 2.0 to Boost Communication : Social Networking Isn't Only for the Gen Y Socialites

Building Your Compliance Project Charter : The Most Important Document in Any Project

Introducing the Finance Systems Group : Your Best Organizational Defense Against SOX

Contract Compliance 101 : 5 Familiar Steps to Audit-Proof Your Important Contracts

Pratical Advice from Flawless Compliance™:

Below are selected articles from John Weathington's monthly newsletter, Flawless Compliance™; the articles which tend to offer very pragmatic advice. Although most of the articles will be from the "Hello Rubber, Meet the Road" section of the periodical, in some cases other sections will be featured for their practial implications.

Anti-Corruption Compliance : What a Lovely Bribe

Adding Privacy to Your Control Program : An Introduction to GAPP and How to Leverage In Privacy Control

Survive an IT Strategy Audit : 3 Steps to Organize Your IT Department for Audit Success

British TVs Don’t Stop Crime : How to Prevent Big Losses on Your Compliance Project

Handling Compound Risk : What to Do When Risk Begets Risk

Controlling Uncertainty : How to Manage Risk on a Compliance Project

Compliance Tips for the Guilty : Using Culpability Scores to Reduce Risk

Don't Be Late for the XBRL Train : Understanding XBRL and its Business Impact

When More Meetings are a Good Thing : How to Run a Daily Meeting

Don't Shoot the Tiger : 4 Lessons Learned from the SF Zoo Incident

For Quest Software's Toad®World : John Weathington's Quest for Compliance:

John Weathington was invited by Quest Software, to be an expert blogger on the topic of compliance. Here you'll find a discussion for DBA's, database developers, and IT management on compliance concerns, observations, issues, and solutions, based on the consulting work of John Weathington. Click here to visit the blog site at Quest Software. Below are links to the individual topics.

Coping with Disaster

3 Key Tips for Surviving a Firefight

How to Correct a Bad Situation

IT Independence – How Much Centralization is the Right Amount?

When Prevention Fails, What's Next?

Automated Process Auditing

Prevention over Intervention

Solving for Data Privacy

How To Deal With Chronic Weakness

How To Survive an Agile Project as a DBA

How To Keep Dead People Out of Your Database

To Write, or Not to Write? Good Question!

Keep It Under Control With SOD

Keep It Under Control With Approvals

Keep It Under Control With Reconciliation

Prove It or Lose It!

Compliance Data Systems : Imagine a World of Happy Auditors

Let's Talk About Compliance!

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