Snapping Out of It
My morning caffeine kicks in, and I refocus on the presenter, who is showing slides depicting our new, integrated process and spewing drivel about the "synergy" between the auditors' database and our financial reporting system. What's synergy to them is a kludge to us.
Sometimes, I remind myself, you just have to play the game. This game is serious business. Sarbanes-Oxley isn't going away, and neither is our friendly SOX-compliance auditor.
Hunter Metatek is an enterprise IT director with 15 years' experience in network engineering and management. The events chronicled in this column are based in fact--only the names are fiction. Write to the author at [email protected].
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