Resources to Assist CPAs in Business Continuity Planning

Source: The CPA Letter

Business continuity planning has increased as a result of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, NASD rules 3510 (Business Continuity Planning) and 3520 (Emergency Contact information), 9/11 and other terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, ISO 28000 (an international standard for security management for the supply chain), and other causes.

AICPA members can now access state-of-the-art tools from Prism eSolutions to help evaluate and implement BCP in their practices and on behalf of their clients.

Prism provides a variety of resources for collecting information, creating action plans, and prioritizing use of resources in emergencies that may otherwise prevent the firm or company from continuing operations.

Prism provides Web-based assessment tools, library of BCP content, project management tools, document management and data collection. See www.cpa2biz.com/Affinity/Prism.htm.

Also see “A Guide to Crisis Management” in this issue of CPA Leadership Report.

From The CPA Letter, A News Report to Members of AICPA, December 2006, p. 3. To read the entire article, click on the following link: http://www.aicpa.org/download/cpaltr/2006_12/dec06.pdf.