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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for Regional Telecommunication and Technology Company: Protiviti assisted the company with its Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts. The project scope includes performing an Entity Level Controls Review, identifying key financial reporting elements, prioritizing business processes, and documenting high-risk processes and their associated risks and controls. In addition, it assisted them in documenting their chosen 'pilot' process, External Reporting....; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Financial Planning, Regulations, Protiviti, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial, business process, telecommunications; Case studies
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance and Internal Audit Co-sourcing at International Technology Provider: In FY03, performed Order Management Review Assisted in Sarbanes-Oxley 404 efforts for the company's FY03 by providing feedback and consultation on processes, risks and controls and also testing identified controls and identifying control gaps. Protiviti provided personnel to company as internal audit projects arise. It provided recommendations on reviews performed...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Protiviti, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, order management, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, audit, best practice; Case studies
Canada Develops Sarbanes-Like Reporting Requirements: The paper depicts that Canadian companies are following their American counterparts into the world of detailed reporting on internal control over financial reporting. It informs that the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) ended the comment period on Proposed Multilateral Instrument 52-111 (Reporting on Internal Control over Financial Reporting). This is Canada's...; Tags: Financial Planning, Sarbanes-Oxley, Protiviti, financial reporting, Canada, Section 404, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; White papers
Three Key Lessons on How to Cut the Costs of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Gartner recommends that all of your applications than can assist with compliance be brought together in a common architecture. According to Gartner, public companies that don't have this common compliance architecture by 2006 will have to spend 50 percent more annually to achieve compliance. Gartner analysts recommend that 50 percent...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, World Bank Group, Gartner Inc., compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, consulting, insurance; White papers
IT Auditors to Build on Sarbanes Experience in Year 2: The paper outlines that as the public companies are moving into Year 2 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, Information Technology auditors have "a huge opportunity" to make IT audits more useful and easier to do. At these companies, IT Audit helped with risk assessment, design and documentation of controls and coaching...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy, Regulatory compliance, Protiviti, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, risk assessment, information technology, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, audit; White papers

How to Turn Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Into a Strategic Advantage: The key to turning one's company's conformity with Sarbanes-Oxley into a strategic advantage is to sustain the compliance year-on-year. To do so, one must embrace the idea that Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is an ongoing journey not a final destination. To increase company's competitive advantage and close the IT audit gap one...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Microsoft Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate culture, audit, competitive advantage, best practice, information technology; White papers
PowerLock AuthorityBroker Helps C&D Technologies With Sarbanes Oxley Compliance: C&D Technologies, Inc. produces and markets systems for the power conversion and storage of electrical power, including batteries and electronics. As a publicly traded company, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance has had a major impact on the IT department at C&D Technologies. Auditors insist on separation of duties. A recent IT audit raised...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Backups, Regulatory compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, backup system, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, programmer, backup, battery, electronics, storage, information technology; Case studies
GMAC Commercial Mortgage: GMAC Commercial Mortgage Reduces Cost of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance by 50 Percent: Facing the need to track more than a thousand business controls and manage several times as many documents for compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, GMAC Commercial Mortgage (GMACCM) knew that it would need more than spreadsheets and file shares. Risk Management Compass (RMC), developed using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Microsoft development tools, .NET, Microsoft Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft .NET Framework, risk management, compliance, spreadsheet; Case studies
Internal Audit Outsourcing and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for National Drug Store Chain: The Protiviti engagement team was able to provide the company, one of the most recognized retail drug store chains on the West Coast with an outsourced internal audit function delivered by professionals with relevant industry experience. Through consistency in personnel and responsiveness, the engagement team has been able to assist...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Protiviti, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, audit, outsource, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, compliance, industry; Case studies
Case Study: A Drug Company's Journey to Sustainable Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: A global pharmaceutical company wanted to transform its first-year Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 readiness project into a sustainable, company-wide internal control and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance capability. Working with the client's legal and finance leadership, the Deloitte* team developed an internal control roles and responsibilities framework to guide the client's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Deloitte & Touche, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, finance, leadership, compliance, team, environment; Case studies
Pre-IPOs Seek Sarbanes Compliance: As the once-comatose IPO market wakes up, companies with dreams of going public are under heavy pressure to get their governance ducks in a row. The paper reveals that following the widely watched example of Internet search engine giant Google, private companies are beginning to adopt Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) governance...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, SEARCH, Protiviti, pre-IPO, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Internet search engine, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Internet search, IPO, SOA, Internet; White papers
Aligning Sarbanes and Internal Audit Resources: Public companies have poured huge amounts of time, effort and money to meet the documentation, testing and reporting requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), which addresses the "Reliability of Financial Reporting" objective of COSO. Because of the demands placed on companies by the legislation, internal audit budgeting...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Financial accounting, Protiviti, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, Section 404, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, financial reporting, budgeting, compliance, asset, financial; White papers
IT Controls Impact Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Efforts: Information Technology (IT) is, incontrovertibly, a central business process element in most organizations. Leaving IT out of the picture is no longer an option. The same can be said of the widespread initiatives businesses are undertaking related to Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) compliance. With this in mind, many organizations have come...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Strategy, Protiviti, SOA, information technology, financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, compliance, business process, financial; White papers
How Identity Management Supports Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: It's almost impossible to rely on a Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302 or 404 compliance program without a high level of confidence that only authorized users have access to the critical systems that contribute data inputs to material financial statement accounts. This article describes how identity management, which is one component of...; Tags: Financial statements, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Authentication/Encryption, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, financial statement, identity management, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, access contr; White papers
Do Presidential Candidates Understand the Knowledge Economy?: Do Presidential Candidates Understand the Knowledge Economy?Flawed PremiseMy prescriptions for increasing American competitiveness is for the government to do nothing. Except:- End all the expensive Wars on Terror, Drugs, Poverty that are costing us not only blood and treasure but also our individual and civil liberties- Stop acting as the world's policeman...; Tags: Vertical industries, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbox, knowledge, government, investment; Discussion threads 2008-03-07
"SOX" Simplified: Payroll And Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Few years back, a stock market disaster cost ordinary investors trillions of dollars at the hands of a small group of deceptive business leaders. The Enron scandal and other similar scandals damaged investors' confidence in the accuracy of corporate financial statements. In response to the public outrage, Senator Paul Sarbanes...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Investment, Financial accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, stock market, business ethics, regulation, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, investor, financial reporting, financial statement, financial, payroll, stock, small business, c; White papers 2007-08-15
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Issues: Compliance issues have always plagued financial businesses, but the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) of 2002 increased the level of concern companies face concerning accounting and reporting regulations. The law, which applies to all firms that issue securities traded on US securities markets, contains several requirements for firms to comply with. It...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Web services, Middleware, Regulations, MessageLabs Ltd., business communication, SOA, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, accounting, financial, security; White papers 2007-10-01
How Perforce Can Help With Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires accountability in the management of systems that affect financial reporting. Perforce delivers key features necessary to comply with the law, such as access control, strong accountability, and policy enforcement tools. Better still, Perforce provides an efficient infrastructure for an automation-based approach to compliance that yields enhanced...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Financial accounting, accountability, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, financial reporting, access control, compliance, benefit, financial, tool; White papers 2006-05-30
Security & Identity: A Winning Approach to Sarbanes- Oxley Compliance: In spite of the fact that budgets are already stretched thin, enterprises must find ways to respond to these increased demands. At the same time, organizations are attempting to juggle multiple objectives, such as complying with regulations to stay in business vs. focusing on strategic projects to get ahead of...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Novell Inc., regulation, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial, security; White papers 2006-05-23
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Burdens Small Firms: GAO Study: Small businesses are disproportionately burdened by a law that requires public companies to prove they've got adequate controls in place to prevent accounting mistakes, a Government Accountability Office report found. The report comes two days before a roundtable meeting, to be hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, accounting, small business; White papers 2006-05-09