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Imagine that you are the Chief Financial Officer of a publically
traded retail company (e.g., Target). You are required to follow
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) for your financial reporting. You
need to ensure that your company passes external independent
audits every year for your quarterly reports. You are considering
using an ERP system to accomplish your goal.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
Explain what SOX requires of the information systems for a
publically traded company.

Explain how a vendor ERP system such as Oracle ERP financial
module helps the company meet the SOX requirements.

Determine the inputs, transformations, outputs, and key
processes of the ERP financial module.

Create a diagram to show how the inputs, transformations,
outputs, and key process of the ERP financial module interact
with sales and supply chain systems of the company through the
use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open
source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted
solution is not included in the required page length.

Determine the organizational technical factors that are important
for the success of this ERP implementation. Take a position on
whether training is an important factor in this ERP
implementation and explain why or why not.