RE: User Documentation

[Alister Wm Macintyre <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since you are in Finance, you also probably aware of Sarbanes Oxley.

99% of BPCS procedures and documentation developed before SOX, and many 
need revisiting due to that, and a lot not in fact been revisited by all 
the people who should.

The more we have users without good training in BPCS, the more we have 
glitches in our data processing that people do not know how to fix, and the 
temptation is great to resolve by other than SOX-compliant methods.  This 
reality probably impacts Finance more than any other dept.

This is also related to computer security and the enforcement of good 
business practices.

This sort of topic can also be found in BPCS_L archives, and we can supply 
additional links.

> Tom,
> Thank you for the information.  I am securing BPCS information in
> preparation of a pending job offer at a local manufacturing concern.
> My focus is Accounting/Finance.  I carry a dual major in Accounting/IT
> and have always considered it mandatory to keep abreast with the IT
> systems that drive the Finance function.  In this world, accountants who
> don't know their source systems are apt to "blow things up".
>
> I am very glad to meet your end users and expect to correspond
> frequently.  I have already found a repository of end user manuals.
>
>
>
> Susan Kapplinger
> Phone  989-839-5997
> Cell      989-284-4784