SOX Report Specifics

End of Period Adjustments Report (EPA)

Column

Description

 

 

Object

The name and owner of the database object that was directly manipulated by

 

the flagged activity

 

 

Time Stamp

The exact time the flagged activity was conducted.

 

 

Terminal Name

The terminal IP address or name.

 

 

Origin Application

The name, or other identifier, for the originating application, if the activity

 

originated from an external application or from an application server.

 

 

Action

The type of action successfully completed by the User ID.

 

 

Determining Your Reporting Period

Reporting Period is the time frame surrounding a user-defined period-end day (PED). The reporting period extends a user-defined number of days before (UDDB) and a user-defined number of days after (UDDA) the PED.

Assumptions:

PED = the 1st day of each month

UDDB = 8

UDDA = 15

Case 1

Assumption:

You are running your End of Period Adjustments (EPA) report sometime before midnight on the first day of August

Assertions:

a)the most recent PED is the first day of July

b)the reporting period is (July 1)- 8 days until (July 1) + 15 days Conclusion:

The resulting report period is June 23 until July 16, inclusive.

Case 2

Assumption:

You are running your End of Period Adjustments (EPA) report sometime before midnight on the second day of August

Assertions:

a)the most recent PED is the first day of August

b)the reporting period is (Aug 1)- 8 days until (Aug 1) + 15 days Conclusion:

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