Praise for Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals "Effective SOX programs enlist the entire organization to build and monitor a compliant control environment. However, even the best SOX programs are inefficient at best, ineffective at worst, if there is a lack of informed, competent finance and IT personnel to support the effort. This book provides these important professionals a needed resource for and road map toward successfully implementing their SOX initiative."
—Scott Green Chief Administrative Officer, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and author, Sarbanes-Oxley and the Board of Directors
"As a former CFO and CIO, I found this book to be an excellent synopsis of SOX, with impressive implementation summaries and checklists."
—Michael P. Cangemi CISA, Editor in Chief, Information Systems Control Journal and author, Managing the Audit Function
"An excellent introduction to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act from the perspective of the financial and IT professionals that are on the front lines of establishing compliance in their organizations. The author walks through many areas by asking 'what can go wrong' types of questions, and then outlines actions that should be taken as well as the consequences of noncompliance. This is a good book to add to one's professional library!"
—Robert R. Moeller Author, Sarbanes-Oxley and the New Internal Auditing Rules
"Mr. Anand has compiled a solid overview of the control systems needed for not only accounting systems, but also the information technologies that support those systems. Among the Sarbanes books on the market, his coverage of both topics is unique."
—Steven M. Bragg Author, Accounting Best Practices
"An excellent overview of the compliance process. A must-read for anyone who needs to get up to speed quickly with Sarbanes-Oxley."
—Jack Martin Publisher, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal
Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals
FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book is a comprehensive guide for IT and finance professionals to comply with SOX. It provides key aspects and components of the Act; show how to assess if a company is SOX compliant; provides a road map to compliance including checklists, worksheets, and project plans; and shows the business and technology implications and resource requirements for compliance. This new edition also includes more details on COSO and COBIT. The tentative contents is: (1) Scope and Assessment of the Act; (2) Internal Controls; (3) Control Environment; (4) Monitoring; (5) Material Weaknesses; (6) Implementing Sarbanes-Oxley; (7) Technology Implications; (8) Sarbanes-Oxley Related Bodies; (9) Opportunities Created by Sarbanes-Oxley; (10) Summary for the CFO; (11) Introduction for the IT Professional; (12) The Issues; (13) Enterprise Technology Ecosystem; (14) Implementing the Socket Framework; and (15) The Process.