This excel spreadsheet compliance training/webinar will help in identifying the critical spreadsheets, structured approach to manage it and how to put controls to protect it.
Why Should You Attend:
Excel and other spreadsheet programs reside on over 90% of computer desktops globally. While that represents an impressive accomplishment for software developers, it should jangle the nerves of executives. Why? Because every user who accesses a spreadsheet represents a potential risk to the integrity of the data it contains.
Governing bodies, such as the FDA has recently focused more attention on the use of spreadsheets during compliance audits. If you cannot show with documented test evidence that spreadsheets are generating the correct data, then your auditors can stop the use of your spreadsheets or worse - stop your operations until the situation is resolved. Just about every industry uses spreadsheet on a regular bases to support business processes, whether as an operator interface, as a data manipulation tool, or for data storage. To the extent these spreadsheets are in place, they are an extension of the IT environment and must comply with laws and regulations.
This presentation will review the steps to assess the state of compliance for spreadsheet, recommendation to address out-of-compliant spreadsheets and the paths for ensuring the complaint state is sustained. Examples of controls embedded in popular end user applications such as MS Excel will be demonstrated during the webinar.
Areas Covered in the Seminar:
- How End User Computing affects your company.
- Risk of using spreadsheets to support critical business processes.
- How to identify critical spreadsheet.
- Structured approached to managing spreadsheets.
- Implementation of controls that protect spreadsheets.
- Maintaining compliant environment.
Who Will Benefit:
This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all regulated companies that need to validate their spreadsheets supporting critical business processes. The employees who will benefit include:
- End-users responsible for managing spreadsheets/databases
- Information Technology personnel
- Quality Assurance personnel
- Quality system auditors
- Consultants
- Internal Auditors
Instructor Profile:
Bernice Russell-Bond, As President of BRUSSELL Consulting, Inc (BCI), and Bernice brings over fifteen years of business operations, risk management, audit and compliance experience. She has worked for business, legal, audit, and IT management groups within various industries including manufacturing, financial and pharmaceutical. She has acquired practical insights, exposure to leading compliance practices, and seasoned judgment based on her work supporting the Compliance and IT Groups of Global Companies. In addition to her experience, Bernice also has the following academic credentials: B.S. in Accounting from Hampton University and an M.B.A with an emphasis in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix.
