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SOX Essentials for Small Public Companies

Duration: 1 Hour

Sarbanes Oxley Compliance is wreaking havoc on small business budgets. The overwhelming costs of SOX make it difficult for small companies to compete in a global marketplace. The SEC estimates that public companies are spending as much as $1.2 billion collectively per year to comply. As a result of those costs, smaller companies are seeing their profits shrink, which damages their stock price and puts them at risk.

This webinar will look at reviewing the challenges to small public companies due to the requirements of SOX compliance. It also discusses the best practices which allow SOX compliance in a cost effective and efficient manner.

What will be covered?

Current regulatory environment
Components of a Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 management assessment
Accounting and disclosure controls
Treasury
Competency and training of accounting personnel
Control environment
Design of controls or lack of effective compensating controls
Financial closing process
Inadequate account reconciliation
Information Technology on Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance
Components of a SOX IT assessment
Effective remediation plans and follow through

The webinar will also cover the features and benefits of the cost effective MetricStream solution for SOX implementation. MetricStream solutions enable companies to significantly reduce their cost of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Using MetricStream SOX solution, companies can design, assess and improve internal controls under the COSO framework, monitor their compliance processes at any level of detail and easily provide evidence to the external auditors that an internal control was tested to the satisfaction of the internal audit group.

Who will benefit This webinar will provide valuable assistance to Finance, Regulatory and IT staff of small public companies looking to learn more about the challenges and best practices of SOX compliance. These employees include:
SOX analysts SOX consultants Internal auditors External auditors CPAs CFOs Controllers	VP Finance CIOs Chief Compliance Officers Programmers and Analysts IT staff IT consultants

Panelist(s) Info:

Bob Benoit
- President and Director of SOX Research, Lord & Benoit, LLC

Bob has been teaching Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 throughout the U.S. through the State CPA Societies. He has been on Massachusetts AICPA Peer Review Acceptance Board for ten years. Bob's research has been quoted by three of the Big 4 CPA firms, PCAOB, SEC, SEC Staff, SEC Advisory Committee and AICPA-CPCAF.

Charles Goldenberg
- Vice President of Governance, Risk & Compliance Solutions

Charlie brings more than 30 years of professional experience, including 25 years as a management consultant. He worked with a number of leading companies on Finance process and governance issues, and worked with several large multi-national corporations on inter-company transfer pricing issues.

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