Governance and accountability are regulated by laws and voluntary standards such as the Sarbanes Oxley act and the SA8000 Social Accountability standard.

At the core of these systems are requirements such as:

• Organizations must have internal procedures (rules) which must be managed and communicated across the organization and must be compliant with an external set of prescriptions.
• Organizations must put in place and track a training program to make sure that people are up to date with the procedures.
• There must be a control system, which in most cases is heavily based on audits. Results of audits must be tracked and corrective actions must be recorded.

These requirements are fully supported by ProcessFrame, through the document management functionality's, allowing the management of the procedures life cycle as well as their easy distribution and retrieval, and the Survey building block allowing the audit department to define its own checklists, plan for the audit activities and analyze results.