At this point, there are well over 60,000 solutions saying they can help with SOX in some way. But few come prepackaged and few have everything that's needed. |
By sharing the responsibility and making it everyone's business, it makes SOX compliance part of the business process. It just becomes part of how you do business, not this huge task to manage. |
Capital spending plans are quite impressive. The forecasts are strong and show a continuation of the recovery going forward. |
Certainly, I think to some extent Japan is happy to step back and let China take all the heat. |
Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms' expectations) is quite small so I think broadly they're looking for more of the same, |
I think that the initial down pressure came from that it was one of the most popular stocks being traded by individuals. |
I would suspect the rise in January was a kind of bounce after four straight months of decline, |
If you have a global organization, you could have 80 different business units, and every one of those has processes, risks, controls, and tests. It gets to be a bigger and bigger ball of string every period. But with ours you can close out, and only roll over changes. |
It's definitely positive news and suggests that the expansion is continuing, and if anything things might pick up a bit more in the second half of this year. |
It's getting to the point where the Bank of Japan will start moving up rates gradually. There is upward pressure on prices and wages, which is something the Bank of Japan will look at quite carefully. |
It's not the busiest area in the whole of town, but we always have a lot of people in here so do a good trade. |
Japan probably is the biggest victim of deflation in Asia, |
Koizumi really hasn't talked much about anything else except postal reforms, |
Not a chance. We knew they'd be desperate to win in front of their fans. We really didn't take much notice of it. We knew what we had to do coming in and we got a good result. |
Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatization, this does not necessarily imply that the party agrees on much else. |