Year 2000 Risk Management & Legal Issues From CCH Helps Companies With Millennium Bug Plans

(Riverwoods, ILL., October 5, 1998) -- As companies struggle to become "Year 2000 compliant," they should take a moment to ask whether they will be Year 2000 viable, suggests CCH INCORPORATED, a leading provider of business law and information now offering Year 2000 Risk Management & Legal Issues on CD-ROM. The question of how a company’s computers deal with a date of 2000 is not simply a question of its own information technology, CCH says.

When it comes to business risk, companies have never before faced anything quite like the potential Year 2000 crisis. With businesses dependent on computers for their core processes, and also dependent on other businesses that rely on computers, the "Y2K" crisis is above all a risk management issue.

To help companies -- especially their risk managers and their legal advisors -- tackle the Y2K problem and ensure business continuity, CCH, in association with Y2Ki publications, is offering Year 2000 Risk Management & Legal Issues.

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WORLD-WIDE PROBLEM

This impressive selection of articles on key business and legal implications of the millennium bug is written by leading Y2K authorities from around the world. Over 40 distinguished contributors from business, academia and the government share their expertise on Year 2000 Risk Management & Legal Issues to help businesses assess risk, identify and prioritize mission-critical systems and functions, document compliance steps and develop compliance and contingency plans.

Specific subjects addressed include:

Risk Assessment
Risk Management
Contingency Planning
Audit Tasks
The Legal Audit
Disclosure
Legal Liability
Correspondence
Safeguarding the Supply Chain
Finance (including preparing for the European Monetary Union)
Project Design
Testing (including Automated Testing)
Version Control
PC Tools
Embedded Systems
EDI

NOT JUST TODAY’S VIEWS

Year 2000 Risk Management & Legal Issues continues to deliver current perspectives from thought leaders as the clock ticks toward January 1, 2000. Year 2000 issues are evolving rapidly and this helpful CD-ROM will capture the latest views in three updates -- one in 1998 and two in 1999.

CD-ROM SPEEDS ACCESS TO CRITICAL INFORMATION

CCH’s Year 2000 Risk Management & Legal Issues is offered on CD-ROM, making articles easy to access and navigate. HTML links within the CD-ROM and from the disc to Internet sites speed browsing and ensure thorough research. Microsoft ® PowerPoint presentations and word processing documents provide ready-to-use tools for risk managers and others within businesses.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Year 2000 Issues is self-contained on CD-ROM and requires no additional disk space to run. A 386 or higher IBM-compatible PC, 4MB RAM, Windows 3.1, 95 or later and a CD-ROM reader are required to use the program.

AVAILABILITY AND PRICING

For more information or to order Year 2000 Risk Management & Legal Issues, call 1-800-449-6435, or contact the CCH Business and Finance Group web site at http://business.cch.com. Price is $275 and includes three updates.

ABOUT CCH INCORPORATED

CCH INCORPORATED, headquartered in Riverwoods, Ill., was founded in 1913 and has served four generations of business professionals and their clients. The company produces more than 700 electronic and print products for the tax, legal, securities, human resources, health care and small business markets. CCH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer U.S.

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