IGT follows a strong Financial Governance approach aimed at ensuring accurate, transparent and timely financial reporting to its management, equity-partners and stake-holders. This approach is based on rigorous definition and compilation of Organizational Metrics to facilitate business-critical decision making. This again translates into faster response times and speed to deploy for IGT's customers.

IGT is adopting the SOX Compliance Framework as part of its Financial Governance approach. Under the SOX Compliance framework, the IT scope for each control unit has been defined based on the information provided by the control units regarding their in-scope applications and related IT environment.

Following work products are used for scope definition:

• Process and Application Map: This work product captures the relationship between in-scope business processes/cycles, e.g. Revenue, Expense, Accounts Payables etc. and the computer applications that support the business process.
• Process Flow Diagram: This work product captures the high level data and process flow across the applications, thereby helping identify applications controls.
• General Computer Controls List: This work product, based on the Process & Application Map, lists the broader categories of in and out of scope General Computer Controls.
• Application Computer List: This work product has a list of in and out of scope General Computer Controls.