Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies 2nd

Jill Gilbert Welytok

• 22 februari 2008
• 9780470223130

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You may not believe that there's a fun and easy way to comply with Sarbanes -Oxley, but once you have Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies, Second Edition in front of you, you're sure to change your mind.

Includes SOX forms and privatization guidelines

The fun and easy way to comply with the law and maintain your credibility

Need to be Sarbanes-Oxley savvy? This plain-English guide walks you through the new and revised laws — as well as compliance strategies for changed and unchanged guidelines — and gives you an effective framework for implementation. You'll create an efficient audit committee, purchase and use SOX software solutions, and make practical, cost-effective decisions in your initial compliance year and beyond.

Discover how to:

• Establish SOX standards for IT professionals

• Minimize compliance costs in every area of your company

• Survive a Section 404 audit

• Avoid litigation under SOX

• Anticipate future rules and trends

In plain English, this completely reliable handbook walks you through the new and revised SOX laws, introduces compliance strategies for changed and unchanged guidelines, and gives you an effective framework for implementation You’ll find out how to create an efficient audit committee, purchase and use SOX software solutions, and make practical, cost-effective decisions in your initial compliance year and beyond. You’ll also find proven strategies for staying public or going private and learn how to deal with all those SOX forms. Discover how to:

• Establish SOX standards for IT professionals
• Minimize compliance costs in every area of your company
• Survive a section 404 audit
• Avoid litigation under SOX
• Anticipate future rules and trends
• Create a post-SOX paper trail
• Bolster your company’s standing and reputation
• Work with SOX in a small business
• Meet new SOX standards
• Build a board that can’t be bought
• Comply with all SOX management mandates

Complete with invaluable tips on how to form an effective audit committee, Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies is the resource you need to keep your SOX clean.