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Sarbanes - Oxley Section 404 Assistance
Keiter Stephens’ internal audit professionals
help companies comply with their Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
Section 404 requirements.
Keeping up-to-date on the latest technical innovations
and regulations in SEC accounting and reporting requirements allows us
to ensure the effectiveness of our SOX services.
Based on our knowledge and experience assisting
public registrants with their Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance,
Keiter Stephens was featured in the October 2005 Strategic
Finance magazine article: “Top 5 SOX Best Practices for
Small Companies."
Helping companies meet their
Sarbanes-Oxley requirements can take many forms. From educating
management and personnel about Section 404 requirements to developing
processes templates, narratives, flowcharts, and testing plans and controls,
our goal is to make implementation simpler and more manageable for you.
Every aspect of the process can be measured
and documented. Establishing milestones, reporting mechanisms, and corrective
action plans for any noted deficiencies are areas in which we excel.
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Success Stories
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For an accelerated filer with limited resources, KS served as the SOX 404 project leader. Our responsibilities
included creating the pilot program, developing SOX templates, identifying
the significant accounts and business processes, developing and
coordinating project schedules and timelines, leading the documentation
and testing activities, and evaluating and remediating internal
control deficiencies.
While assisting
a public registrant with its SOX
documentation efforts, we provided recommendations to eliminate
redundant controls, strengthen segregation of duties, and efficient methods for documenting key controls, all
of which resulted in reduction of implementation costs and efforts.
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