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Norman Marks SAP Employee
Company: SAP BusinessObjects division
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Norman Marks was the head of internal audit functions at major U.S. and global corporations for more than 15 years prior to joining SAP BusinessObjects Governance, Risk, and Compliance solutions team in late 2008. He is a recognized international leader in the theory and practice of internal auditing, and was profiled by the magazines of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Internal Auditors for his innovative practices. Mr. Marks is the author of some of the IIA's most downloaded publications, including "Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: A Guide for Management by Internal Controls Practitioners", which has been downloaded more than 60,000 times. He has written award-winning articles for the Internal Auditor magazine and other publications on a broad range of topics including top-down and risk-based auditing, training the audit committee, building efficient financial compliance programs, fraud detection, and the future of internal auditing.

We all have lessons to learn from the Heartland data breach – whether board member, executive, or professional
IT professionals, board members, executives, and auditors: the major data breach at Heartland is an opportunity to learn. Reliance on compliance audits may be misplaced. Sep. 2, 2009
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Seminar on continuous monitoring and auditing
A seminar on continuous auditing and monitoring will be help in Singapore on October 9th Aug. 26, 2009
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S&P Publishes Status Report on ERM and Credit Ratings Project
Standard and Poor's, a major credit rating agency, is assessing listed companies' risk management processes. They have published an interim report. Aug. 10, 2009
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Integrating risk management and automated controls
The value of a top-down and risk-based approach to testing controls. Jul. 10, 2009
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The Current State of Internal Auditing
EDPACS, a journal for IT audit and security professionals, has published an opinion piece by Norman Marks, SAP BusinessObjects, and Jay Taylor, GM on the state of the profession of internal auditing. Jul. 2, 2009
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The value of SAP BusinessObjects Process Control – a personal view
 Jun. 15, 2009
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The next evolution of internal auditing, beyond continuous auditing
SAP BusinessObjects releases new paper on taking internal audit beyond continuous auditing May. 6, 2009
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GRC application fragmentation
Why so much talk about GRC process and department convergence, but so little about the problem of GRC application fragmentation? May. 1, 2009
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Internal auditing software
Internal auditing software Apr. 9, 2009
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Isn't it time for risk management?
The OECD has concluded that one of the main causes of the financial crisis was a failure of risk management at many companies. Isn't now the time to put a process and system in place? Apr. 1, 2009
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