Resources for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

Preventing failure—while streamlining the audit process

www.s-ox.com

Ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley is a critical business and IT objective for public companies across the U.S. And with good reason.The risks of non-compliance are real—from significant financial penalties to the possibility of damage to an organization’s reputation.

After all, failing a Sarbanes-Oxley audit can mean ineffective and inefficient internal processes and controls. Serious concerns about the accuracy, reliability, and accountability of corporate disclosures can threaten investor confidence. So, given the obvious importance of compliance, why are organizations still failing SOX audits?

Organizations fail SOX audits for a number of reasons: chief among them are an event-driven approach to compliance and a lack of documented control procedures that results in controls that are operationally ineffective and poorly designed.

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