FERF release two key reports.

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Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) has just released two new timely reports. "The Seventh Annual Survey of Technology Issues for Financial Executives" and "Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Practices of Leading Companies." Both of the publications were highlighted at FEI's Annual Summit in Chicago in May.

"The Seventh Annual Survey of Technology Issues for Financial Executives" is based on a survey of 784 FEI members. FERF collaborated with CSC Consulting Inc. to analyze the responses and complete the final report. Gerald Boltin, senior partner at CSC, presented the results during a breakfast session at FEI's Summit, which included a roundtable discussion of the technology issues facing today's financial executives.

An executive summary of FERF's "Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Practices of Leading Companies," was distributed to Summit attendees. This report describes the compliance practices of leading companies for a number of aspects of Section 404 as they transition from a "project" orientation to a sustainable "process." Based on the experiences of the...