{"id":330,"date":"2006-06-29T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T19:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smilingdogapps.com\/wordpress\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-06-29T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T19:43:51","slug":"the-sox-noose-tightens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/29\/the-sox-noose-tightens\/","title":{"rendered":"The SOX Noose Tightens"},"content":{"rendered":"

So there\u2019s a new manager here that is trying to acclimate us to his way of doing things.\u00a0 For the most part, I get along pretty well with him because we both worked for Accenture<\/a> a while back, although not together.\u00a0 But I also know, which others might not, that successful Accenture people are really motivated by climbing the ladder of success and are trained through the “up or out” methodology whereby you either achieve the next level after a certain timeframe or you are asked to move along.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I had a mixed review at Accenture myself, the year that I was expecting to get to the next level.\u00a0 It pissed me off, and I had also recently been offered a new job.\u00a0 So I gave notice during the annual review that I was leaving.\u00a0 Basically, I was going to turn down the other job if I got the promotion, but since I didn\u2019t get it I moved along instead.\u00a0 I\u2019ve learned since then that I might have been a little too ready to leave, but I can\u2019t live life regretting everything that I\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I found out in the meeting that there are 3 groups of consultants here working on SOX compliance.\u00a0 Group 1 Ernst and Young<\/a> who is responsible for auditing our financial statements for the outside world.\u00a0 Group 2 is from KPMG<\/a> who is checking to make sure that we will pass the E&Y audit.\u00a0 Finally, there are internal employees monitoring to make sure that KPMG doesn\u2019t find out something that they don\u2019t already know about.<\/p>\n

Talk about a productivity drain!\u00a0 Gawd, I can\u2019t login to production without an ITG ticket logged by a user at this point.\u00a0 It\u2019s a dilemma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So there\u2019s a new manager here that is trying to acclimate us to his way of doing things.\u00a0 For the most part, I get along pretty well with him because we both worked for Accenture a while back, although not together.\u00a0 But I also know, which others might not, that successful Accenture people are really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}