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Sarbanes-Oxley Sequence5 mins
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Design Effectiveness14 mins
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Testing Operating Effectiveness20 mins
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SOX - Nature of Tests34 mins
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Observation50 mins
Published: November, 2021
SOX is a U.S. federal law requiring all public companies doing business in the United States to comply with the regulation. The law is intended to increase the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures in financial statements while protecting investors from fraudulent accounting practices. It also increases the responsibility of corporate governance. The bill was introduced following the Enron Corporation, WorldCom, and Tyco International fraud and accounting scandals in the early 2000s.
It would be nice if the SEC could just use the honor system for compliance. But we all know that outside of the Boy Scouts and maybe elementary school classrooms – emphasis on the maybe – there's a very good reason for rules and regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley testing is a perfect example of that notion, a mandatory system of checks and balances that ensures everyone is playing by the rules.
Often, when the term Sarbanes-Oxley come up, individuals contemplate the testing processes that are required to be executed. SOX compliance testing is the process by which a company’s management assesses internal controls over financial reporting. This control testing is mandated by The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). But as evidenced many things must occur prior to even beginning to contemplate what, when and how to test.
This online CPE course focuses on the validation of control operations, which is executed through test of controls. Tests can be performed in multiple ways and will be dependent on the type of control. In some instances, several tests may be performed on one control.
Major topics covered in this online CPE webinar:
Testing processes
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Owner, Lynn Fountain Consulting and Training
Lynn Fountain has over 39 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 20 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing and risk management. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance. Lynn has held two Chief Audit Executive (CAE) positions for international companies. In one of her roles as CAE, she assisted in the investigation of a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme perpetrated by a vendor that spanned 7 years and implicated 20 employees. The fraud was formally investigation by the FBI and resulted in 5 indictments estimating a $13M fraud loss.
Ms.
Fountain is currently engaged in her own consulting and training practice. She has successfully executed on several
consulting assignments spanning areas of accounting, risk, ERM and internal
audit. She is a highly sought-after
trainer and international speaker and has produced hundreds of courses
delivered through seminars, conferences and on-demand training. She is the author of three separate technical
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Ms.
Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from
Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CPA, CGMA, CRMA credentials.
Ms. Fountain has become known as an international trainer on topics of Leadership, Internal Audit, Accounting, Finance, Ethics, Business Processes, Bookkeeping, Cybersecurity and Business Issues. She has over 150 training topics that can be tailored to meet your needs.
11 Ratings
DD
Dec 29th, 2021
Great session for real world application as part of a SOX program
RL
Dec 31st, 2021
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