I Love Control Freaks

09/01/2011

Courtesy of Dark Reading, Information Week has the goods this week on just the story you don’t want to be in – a case study of some serious breakdowns in oversight at Citigroup.

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08/16/2011

There should be a variation on schadenfraude for times like this, when a story of a business done wrong makes us just cringe for nearly everyone* involved. http://bit.ly/o6FzWu

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07/26/2011

Happy dog days of summer, everyone. Let’s kick things off today with some reading from Compliance Week, which has some interesting insights on how to establish training programs that prepare businesses for big-time looming compliance challenges like Dodd-Frank and IFRS (maybe) and whatever else legislators can think up.

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07/12/2011

We’re thrilled today to be able to share an example of some cutting-edge work to get control of Medicare fraud. http://bit.ly/n27mQH

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07/01/2011

Norman Marks writes pretty convincingly this week at CFO about how CFOs should be approaching risk – not as a single issue to consider, but rather as an ever-present issue no matter what the topic. So rather than leaving risk for discussions of loss, or fraud, or compliance, CFOs should be...

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06/27/2011

Approva® Corporation, the leader in continuous controls monitoring (CCM) and audit automation software, won a Stevie Award for Business-to-Business Communications or PR Campaign of the Year in the 2011 American Business Awards for the company’s “Control Freak” campaign.

“Control Freak” Campaign Honored as B2B Communications/PR Campaign of the Year in 9th Annual American Business AwardsSM

01/14/2011

Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to release the latest in our ongoing educational and cautionary video series, Should’ve Had a Control Freak, wherein we find glaring examples of poorly controlled operations and show just where and how a Control Freak or two could have prevented costly and embarrassing losses.

01/05/2011

"Control Freak Moment" series brings you news of embezzlement from the Russian Government.

12/15/2010

Out of Control Survey Series - survey #2 results are in. See how you compare!

10/28/2010

Tell us what you think! Participate in Approva's latest survey on financial controls.

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10/27/2010

Crunching On Some Data - we chat about the results of our recent fraud survey.

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10/21/2010

Have you checked out these fun (and informative) videos from the Control Freak Moment series? We think you should ;)

10/11/2010

Thinks the Control Freak "Critter" loves: Quadrants!

One of his favorites is Gartner's Magic Quadrant for CCM.

Courtesy of Approva, access a complimentary copy of Gartner's report "Magic Quadrant for Continuous Controls Monitoring." Simply complete the form below and you will redirected to the report.

10/05/2010

Today we are very excited to debut the latest in our ongoing celebration of “Type A” people everywhere, The Official Control Freak eHandbook – a handy step-by-step guide for helping ordinary folks embrace control in their lives and work. www.ilovecontrolfreaks.com/ebook

10/04/2010

Things the Control Freak "Critter" loves: Having continuous visibility into whether duties are properly segregated across enterprise applications!

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Approva automates the process of analyzing and monitoring your applications for segregation of duties conflicts so that you can quickly identify and eliminate conflicts and then continuously monitor your applications to identify when new issues arise.

10/01/2010

Happy Friday, everyone! As a special treat this first day of October, we’ve got the latest in our ongoing Should’ve Had a Control Freak video series, wherein we highlight situations in the news that seriously, seriously could have used some good old fashioned detail obsessed control freaks.

09/29/2010

Welcome (or welcome back for those of you who have been following along) to our third installment of the highly popular interview the interviewers series. From accounting headlines to Control Freakiness, we’ve got commentary from WebCPA’s Editor-in-Chief, Michael Cohn. So sit-back and enjoy the read!

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09/28/2010

Tick-tock. There's still time to participate in our Control Freak survey and enter to win an iPad.