Image credit: Mykl Roventine The first of April is commonly called April fools day.  But, is Sandra Bullock really filing for divorce?  Who knows.  And really, that is not our subject here today. How often have you needed to shorten a url?  At this point, it seems that there is no shortage of url shortening [...]

Ok, so we have gone over a real world scenario where a procedure was not followed (part 1), what a risk is (part 2), and how a risk came true in the real world example (part 1). Now we are going to look at controls. So, what is a control? Controls are (generally) the parts [...]

In part 1 of this article, I talked about my friend Tom and the actions of one of his co-workers, Jerry. Maybe you saw what was coming, and maybe you did not, but the point of the story was not the mistake that Jerry made. Rather, the point of the story was that the design [...]

We hear it all the time.  Given the current business climate which includes risky decisions, high unemployment rates, and other uncertainties related to the “global” economy, our jobs sometimes seem to hang on us complying with rules that may not have really been explained.  We are often asked to perform seemingly meaningless tasks just to avoid the potential wrath of [...]