Best Practices for Small Business

Best Practices

Even though regulatory compliance differs by region and industry, there are similarities among regulations that deal with document and record keeping practices. These commonalities include:

• Time stamping: keep an unalterable record of the date and time of document and record creation.


• Archive integrity: digital archives must be stored on unalterable media, such as read-only optical discs.


• On-demand access: auditing authorities require that organizations be able to produce documents and records on-demand.


• Common sense: compliance regulations attempt to construct a framework where reasonable rules are enforced to insure accuracy, integrity, and reliability.