December ’04 marks the next big deadline to comply with strictures of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which often require wholesale changes to a company’s financial reporting procedures.
BaseLine Mag has 2 checklist tools to help:
From ‘Can’t’ to Compliant and
Paying for Sarbanes-Oxley, and makes a interesting point:
Companies that use compliance projects to streamline their processes a la the business process re-engineering efforts of the 1980s could well come out ahead by making their financial procedures more efficient…Shaking out the inefficiencies will save time and money…
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