Seven IT Standards for CFOs
A punch line to a joke in the IT industry is this: The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them. OK, it’s not much of a joke. The point is that standards work best when there are only a few. In the IT industry, however, there already is an abundance of standards — and more keep arriving.
There even is an abundance of standards bodies. American National Standards Institute (ANSI), International Organization for Standards (ISO), the IEEE Standards Association, and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are just the start. The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) adds even more standards.
The CFO, however, is interested only in a few. Below, wiredFINANCE will hit on seven IT standards that impact the finance operation while skipping the ones so totally generic that you live with them every day and may not even realize it, like TCP/IP and HTTP, which underlie the Internet. Feel welcome to add any missed below in the comments section. more





