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As a result of several accounting and auditing scandals, congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Section 404 of the act requires company management to assess and report on the effectiveness of the company's internal control. It also requires the company's independent auditor to attest to management's disclosures regarding the ...
"Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: An overview of PCAOB's requirement." KPMG. April 2004. "Sarbanes-Oxley Spending in 2004 More Than Expected: Spending for section 404 compliance averaged $4.4 million in 2004, a survey finds." InformationWeek March 22, 2005. "The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on IT and Corporate Governance." serena.com 12 May. 2005
The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 is a United States federal law that mandates certain practices in financial record keeping and reporting for corporations.The act, Pub. L. 107–204 (text), 116 Stat. 745, enacted July 30, 2002, also known as the "Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act" (in the Senate) and "Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and ...
If an insurer is a publicly traded and subject to SOX 404, then they are already preparing an internal controls report. Therefore, the Model Audit Rule specifically states that this type of insurer “may file its or its parent’s section 404 report and an addendum in satisfaction of this §16 requirement”. [6]: 15
In 2007 the United States implemented the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In order to comply with section 404 of the Act the company had to perform a top down risk assessment which necessitated the production of an "internal control report" that affirmed "the responsibility of management for establishing and maintaining an adequate internal control ...
Internal control procedures reduce process variation, leading to more predictable outcomes. Internal control is a key element of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of 1977 and the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, which required improvements in internal
This typically involves review of the various risk assessments performed by the enterprise (e.g., strategic plans, competitive benchmarking, and SOX 404 top-down risk assessment), consideration of prior audits, and interviews with a variety of senior management. It is designed for identifying audit projects, not to identify, prioritize, and ...
Several examples of compliance objectives with the requirement for file integrity monitoring include: PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (Requirement 11.5) [3] SOX - Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Section 404) [4] NERC CIP - NERC CIP Standard (CIP-010-2) [5] FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Act (NIST SP800-53 Rev3) [6]