The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit: Practice Aids for Managers and Auditors

✍ Scribed by Michael J. Ramos

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 410
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Now updated and fully revised, The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit, Second Edition helps large or small companies continue to meet the complex internal control reporting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. Brimming with a wealth of forms and checklists, the new edition helps you get up to speed quickly with SOX 404 requirements and makes the compliance process repeatable, more efficient, and more effective.

✦ Table of Contents

THE SARBANES-OXLEY SECTION 404 IMPLEMENTATION TOOLKIT, Second Edition......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
About the Author......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Part I: Tools for Management......Page 15
ADM-1: General Work Program......Page 17
ADM-2: Project Planning Summary......Page 31
ADM-2A: Checklist for Summarizing Project Team Competence and Objectivity......Page 45
ADM-2B.1: Worksheet for Determining and Documenting Significant Accounts and Disclosures......Page 48
ADM-2B.2: Mapping of Business Processes to Significant Accounts and Disclosures......Page 54
ADM-2C: Example Inquiries to Identify Changes to Internal Control......Page 59
ADM-3: Senior Management Review Checklist......Page 61
ADM-4: Checklist for Preparation of Management’s Report on Internal Control Effectiveness......Page 66
Part II: Documentation of Internal Control Design......Page 71
DOC-1: Work Program for the Review of Documentation of Entity-Level Controls......Page 73
DOC-1A: Assessment of Internal Control Effectiveness: Overall Approach to Review of the Documentation of Entity-Level Controls......Page 76
DOC-1B: Assessment of Internal Control Effectiveness: Checklist for the Review of the Documentation of Entity-Level Controls......Page 80
DOC-2: Work Program for the Review of Documentation of Activity-Level Controls......Page 94
DOC-2A: Assessment of Internal Control Effectiveness: Overall Approach to Review of the Documentation of Activity-Level Controls......Page 96
DOC-2B: Assessment of Internal Control Effectiveness: Checklist for the Review of the Documentation of a Significant Transaction or Business Unit/Location......Page 99
DOC-3: Documentation Techniques and Selected Examples for Routine Transactions......Page 101
DOC-4: Checklist for Evaluating SOX 404 Software......Page 124
Part III: Internal Control Testing Programs......Page 127
Entity-Level Controls Testing Tools......Page 129
TST-ENT-1: Summary of Observations and Conclusions about Entity-Level Control Effectiveness......Page 133
TST-ENT-1A: Checklist for Small Business Entity-Level Controls......Page 149
TST-ENT-2: Work Program for Testing Entity-Level Control Effectiveness......Page 157
TST-ENT-3: Index to Tests of Entity-Level Controls: Inquiries and Surveys......Page 185
TST-ENT-3A: Entity-Level Tests of Operating Effectiveness: Inquiry Note Sheets—Management......Page 190
TST-ENT-3B: Entity-Level Tests of Operating Effectiveness: Inquiry Note Sheets—Board Members......Page 201
TST-ENT-3C: Entity-Level Tests of Operating Effectiveness: Inquiry Note Sheets—Audit Committee Members......Page 207
TST-ENT-3D: Entity-Level Tests of Operating Effectiveness: Inquiry Note Sheets—Employees......Page 214
TST-ENT-3E: Example Employee Survey......Page 221
TST-ENT-4: Index to Tests of Entity-Level Controls: Inspection of Documentation......Page 229
TST-ENT-4A: Worksheet to Document Inspection of Documentation of Performance of Entity-Level Controls......Page 231
TST-ENT-5: Index to Tests of Entity-Level Controls: Observation of Operations......Page 234
TST-ENT-5A: Worksheet to Document Observation of Operation of Entity-Level Controls......Page 236
TST-ENT-6: Index to Tests of Entity-Level Controls: Reperformance of Controls......Page 239
TST-ENT-6A: Worksheet to Document Reperformance of Entity-Level Controls......Page 241
TST-ENT-7: Work Program for Reviewing a Report on IT General Control Effectiveness......Page 244
TST-ENT-7A: Planning and Review of Scope of Tests of IT General Control Effectiveness......Page 249
TST-ENT-8: Work Program for Performing an IT General Controls Review......Page 255
Guidelines for Testing Activity-Level Control Effectiveness......Page 259
TST-ACT-1: Guidelines and Example Inquiries for Performing Walkthroughs......Page 267
TST-ACT-2: Example Testing Program for Activity-Level Tests of Controls......Page 275
TST-ACT-2A: Example Testing Program for Control Operating Effectiveness: Revenue......Page 276
TST-ACT-2B: Example Testing Program for Control Operating Effectiveness: Purchases and Expenditures......Page 281
TST-ACT-2C: Example Testing Program for Control Operating Effectiveness: Cash Receipts and Disbursements......Page 285
TST-ACT-2D: Example Testing Program for Control Operating Effectiveness: Payroll......Page 289
TST-ACT-3: Work Program for the Review of a Type 2 SAS No. 70 Report......Page 293
TST-ACT-3A: Type 2 SAS No. 70 Report Review Checklist......Page 296
TST-ACT-4: Process Owners’ Monitoring of Control Effectiveness......Page 303
Part IV: Example Letters and Other Communications......Page 309
COM-1: Example Engagement Letter for Outside Consultants to Management......Page 311
COM-2: Example Management Representation Letter......Page 315
COM-3: Example Management Reports on Effectiveness of Internal Control over Financial Reporting......Page 317
COM-4: Example Subcertification......Page 319
Appendix A......Page 321
About the CD-ROM......Page 399
Index......Page 403