Internal controls.

• Position: TechnologyTOOLS - Paisley Consulting and ACL Services Ltd.'s partnership

Paisley Consulting, a provider of business accountability solutions, and ACL Services Ltd., a global provider of business assurance analytics, are extending their strategic technology partnership to provide customers with a long-term risk management solution that incorporates continuous monitoring of internal controls. The companies are collaborating to support customers with ACL's Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) products and Paisley's Risk Navigator software to offer a best-of-breed solution tailored for enterprise users charged with facilitating the compliance process.

New York City-based ACL's CCM solutions provide an independent control review mechanism to help organizations assure the effectiveness of internal controls, reduce operational risks, minimize profit erosion and mitigate the risk of fraud, while meeting increasing regulatory requirements. CCM solutions identify errors, fraud and inefficiencies by independently checking and validating transactions against specified control parameters and business rules.

Summary reports provide the opportunity to drill down to specific exceptions and transactions. Management and business process owners receive timely notification...