Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470169311 ISBN 13: 9780470169315

Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Now updated and fully revised, The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit, Second Edition helps large or small companies continue to meet the complex internal control reporting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. Brimming with a wealth of forms and checklists, the new edition helps you get up to speed quickly with SOX 404 requirements and makes the compliance process repeatable, more efficient, and more effective.

From the Inside Flap:

The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit

Now updated and fully revised, The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit, Second Edition is a useful source of detailed implementation practice aids to help companies—whether large corporations or smaller public companies—continue to meet the complex internal control reporting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley.

Providing a road map through the entire compliance process, The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit, Second Edition offers clear instructions to help readers gather and assess information in order to form logical, supportable conclusions about internal control effectiveness. In addition, it lays out a very involved testing process that engages the project team with operating personnel to discover "what really goes on" at the company. To ensure successful discovery, this book helps the project team be highly active by encouraging them to ask multiple questions, make observations, and corroborate single instances of control compliance until a clear pattern emerges.

New coverage includes:

• New guidance for small businesses and large companies
• Detailed implementation practice aids for Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance based on new rules set by PCAOB and SEC
• Best practices in this emerging, rapidly changing field of SOX 404 compliance
• A valuable CD-ROM containing all of the tools in the book including a collection of detailed work programs, audit checklists, and examples that can be tailored to meet the needs of any practice and client
• A new SEC appendix

Brimming with a wealth of forms and checklists, The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit, Second Edition helps you get up to speed quickly with SOX 404 requirements and makes the compliance process repeatable, more efficient, and more effective.

From the Back Cover:

How can companies easily comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404?

Looking for a highly accessible, simple, and practical approach to help your company easily comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404? The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit, Second Edition presents a detailed road map to help companies not only streamline their compliance process, but also make the process manageable and repeatable year after year.

A must-read for all CFOs, internal auditors, CPA firms, and independent auditors involved in the compliance process, The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit, Second Edition is packed with work programs, audit checklists, and examples that readers can tailor to meet their own unique needs.

Author and consultant Michael Ramos updates you on everything 404, including:

• Detailed implementation practice aids for Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance based on new rules set by PCAOB and SEC
• The best practices in the rapidly changing field of SOX 404 compliance
• A new SEC appendix containing immediately useful information
• New guidance for small businesses

Fully updated and revised, The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit, Second Edition embraces the common approaches and methodologies that have proven successful in the new world of Sarbanes-Oxley internal control testing and reporting. Also included is a website that contains all of the tools from the book, this timely workbook includes best practices that will benefit anyone who participates in the planning or performance of the effectiveness of internal control.