PC controls for troubled times

✍ Scribed by Rob Reider

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 80 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1044-8136
• DOI: 10.1002/jcaf.20509

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Many businesses of all sizes use personal computers (PCs) to process financial and accounting transactions and prepare financial statements. But many PC software packages are “user friendly” and allow the user to have only limited knowledge of control procedures. In addition, the severe economic downturn is causing downsizing and layoffs—and many disgruntled employees are tempted to steal data and sabotage PCs. Finally, as companies struggle to survive, they implement cost‐cutting measures, lowering the level of computer security even more.

So what control measures should you put in place now? What steps are needed? The author supplies some detailed plans you can use immediately to reduce your risks. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.