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Download Free Business Continuity Plans Audit Checklist. This Checklist covers some basic activity during BCM testing such as:
- Table-top testing of various scenarios involves an imaginary ‘walkthrough’ of a continuity plan in a specific set of circumstances, using imaginary events and predicting what is likely to happen on the ground.
- Simulations are one of the most important testing approaches, as simulations also serve to train the people concerned and help identify other issues that could be critical but that have not been identified through the walk-through test. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 14% [?]

1. Authorising the preparation of a Project Plan and Business Case for the project
2. Approving the project go-ahead
3. Checking that the project remains justifiable at key points in the project life cycle Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 20% [?]

1. Estimates are documented

2. Activities and commitments are planned and documented

3. Impacted groups and individuals agree to their commitments

4. Commitments

5. Project manager is designated

6. Project manager negotiates commitments and develops plan Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 29% [?]

1. Information flows sequentially, and there are technical obstacles for each step.

2. The whole process relies on manual operations. Information is typically exchanged by e-mail. Data is stored in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Validation and consolidation require considerable effort and time. The whole process is prone to errors.

3. Whole teams spend weeks or months gathering the data, making sure that it’s correct and consolidating it. Because this whole process is based on manual operations, many companies invest in third party assurance by hiring expensive auditing companies. Costs can reach two million euros per an annual report.

4. Sustainability solutions often aren’t integrated into other existing systems. According to a survey of 150 companies in the U.S. and Europe by AMR Research, less than one-third use their ERP systems to help manage CSR issues. Yet these enterprise-wide systems should be the very foundation of balancing environmental, social, and business objectives.

Popularity: 20% [?]

1. Documentation: The mapping exercise
A company looks at SOX and other regulations to see which areas of their business are going to be affected by the regulation’s requirements. They then go through an intensive mapping process, identifying the business processes, subprocesses, and departments that are involved.

The next step is to highlight the risks and compliance issues. For example, when someone is taking orders from new customers, they need to make sure that a credit check is performed every time. The company should develop a control that will be done from outside its order-taking system that checks all transactions and reports back on whether the system is running credit checks for all new customers.

2. Testing: Real-time and historical
After the documentation phase, companies then implement control checks, either preventative checks, such as those that seek out Segregation of Duties (SoD) violations, or detective checks, which are after-the-fact checks on what happened (historical) or what’s happening right now (real-time). By automating both real-time and historical checks, a company can form a clearer idea of how their business is operating. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 34% [?]