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Implementing Sarbanes Oxley Appropriately

Objective: To provide attendees with an in-depth interactive program that will provide an overview of Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), focusing on business issues related to the implementation and compliance of SOX for the IT department and the entire organization.

Target Audience: Any IT executive, IT professional, business executive, or senior manager involved with a SOX implementation at their company. This program provides a foundation of what SOX is and its impact on an organization.

Focus:
• SOX basic concepts
• SOX applicability requirements
• Corporate responsibilities under SOX
• SOX reporting requirements
• Impact of sections 302, 404, and 906
• IT implications of SOX

Program Details:

Understanding Sarbanes Oxley
- Key components of Sarbanes-Oxley
- How internal controls are affected and/or implemented
- Financial aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley
- Penalties for failing to comply (ways you can go to jail)

Applying Sarbanes Oxley to your organization
- Compliance guidelines
- Organizational impact of SOX
- Positive features of Sarbanes-Oxley

Implementing IT solutions to comply with Sarbanes Oxley
- Impact to business intelligence and corporate performance management, business process management, collaboration and smart enterprise suites, document and records management, ERP and financial systems, security, storage, and email archiving.

Learning Objectives for the Workshop
- Review the fundamental corporate responsibilities with respect to
this legislation
- Understand SOX applicability requirements
- Learn the enhanced disclosure requirements needed for SOX
- Appreciate the importance of management certifications
- Examine the reports covered in SOX
- Review the content and form of certification requirements
- Understand the liability for false section 302 certification
- Understand the impact of SOX to the IT organization
- Understand the requirements for section 906 certification
(and penalties for non-compliance)

Program Length: One Day

Professional Skills are the Key to the Effective Application of
Technology to the Business Process.

Contact Sandy Gaston at sandy@omicron.edu or 404-255-0096 for information, scheduling, and fees.