Even the best intentions sometimes have unexpected results. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was enacted in reaction to the Enron and WorldCom financial debacles, where poor internal controls resulted ...

You might think that five years after a bill was passed, figuring out how to comply with it would be pretty much cut-and-dried. That's simply not the case with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.While ...

Many publicly held companies have been struggling with SOX (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) since its enactment on July 30, 2002. In fact, some companies have chosen to either de-list as public companies (go ...

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires a company to document and periodically test its internal controls and the company’s external auditors to offer an opinion on those controls.

Gathering the documentation needed to prove what did and didn’t happen during the course of a year for Sarbanes-Oxley audits can be an arduous process. IT departments need to reveal the full backstory ...

The other investment CIOs may want to make is in software that can help automate some of the more complicated controls, such as change management or segregation of duties. IDC Research Director ...

With the first Sarbanes-Oxley filing finally complete, travel managers and suppliers are seeking new ways of using technology to streamline the audit process, increase corporate governance and drive ...

Achieving Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance is not impossible, but there are a few key elements beyond ethical leadership that are necessary to achieve and maintain it. Public corporations must ...

The end of each fiscal year can be a hectic time for Security Financial Group (SFG), a Minneapolis-based consulting organization that provides financial auditing services. SFG consultants are busy ...

Global HR & payroll software and services expert, Patersons, has gained Type II SAS 70 compliance, an audit performed to meet the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate governance Global ...