Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2464f3b5/sox_the_complete) has announced the addition of the "SOX: The Complete Planning Guide" subscription to their offering.
SOX: The Complete Planning Guide provides the all-encompassing guidance an organization and its advisors need to ensure compliance. It examines the Sarbanes-Oxley Act itself, describes how the implementing institutions operate, explains the requirements for corporate governance (and especially the audit committee), clarifies the requirements and processes for establishing internal controls over financial reporting, describes how SOX affects a variety of specific transactions such as new business acquisitions, shows how SOX applies to non-issuer organizations, lays out the new professional standards that apply, and analyzes the new SOX-mandated civil and criminal penalties.
It is used by attorneys and all financial accounting professionals in business, both public and private, government agencies and large institutional investors such as pension funds, foreign companies that are listed on a U.S.-based exchange, U.S. companies with foreign subsidiaries, and public accounting firms that handle foreign clients.
Benefits
- Draws together the requirements from all governing institutions into one resource
- Discusses methods of establishing GAAP and GAAS
- Describes best-management practice models for demonstrating responsible governance
- Assists lawyers in counseling public issuers and avoiding malpractice problems
- Includes SOX requirements for recruiting directors and for the composition of a board of directors
- Contains useful supplementary material (see Features section below)
Topic Areas
- Audit committee issues
- Best practices for private companies and non-profits
- Criminal penalties for obstruction of justice
- Director qualifications and independence
- Executive compensation issues
- Foreign issuers
- Increased penalties for white collar crimes
- Insider trades during pension fund blackout periods
- Newly defined crimes under SOX
- Post-SOX acquisitions
- Prohibition on personal loans to directors and officers
- Public companies going dark or private
- Section 302 and 906 certifications
- Securities analyst conflicts of interest
- SOX provisions affecting private companies/non-profits
- Stronger penalties for fraud attempts and conspiracies
- The Section 404 auditor's report
- The various definitions of internal control
- Whistleblowing
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2464f3b5/sox_the_complete