By Amol Bharti on February 1, 2009
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) impacts directly on companies that are listed on the US stock exchanges, but it has standard setting implications for any company that may go pubic or that might be acquired by a public company. I was recently contacted by an Australia based Business Analyst whose company is getting privatized with 50% [...]
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By Amol Bharti on March 6, 2008
Ok so let’s start with SOX Sections related to Internal Controls and Disclosure. After the SOX legislation came into existenance, A significant amount of attention was given to Section 302 (Disclosure) and Section 404 (Internal Controls). Sarbanes-Oxley Sections 302 and 404 are specifically designed to ensure information required to be disclosed is initiated, processed, recorded, [...]
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By Amol Bharti on January 16, 2008
Last Wednesday, I had some healthy discussion with Ankur Tandon about his perspective on SOX and Internal Controls. Its’ been almost a week, that I was thinking about writing what we discussed on a busy scrum day. About Ankur Tandon: Ankur Tandon is a key developer of SAP Enterprise Risk management solution. He can be described as a person [...]
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By Amol Bharti on November 14, 2007
An effective internal control is the basic foundation of safe and sound organizational financial policy. Internal control means different things to different people.
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By Amol Bharti on November 11, 2007
Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 is also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 and commonly called SOX or Sarbox. SOX is a United States federal law enacted on July 30, 2002 in response to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals including those affecting Enron, Tyco International, [...]
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