Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jill Gilbert Welytok
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 111703
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0471768464
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.730664
EAN: 9780471768463
ASIN: 0471768464
Publication Date: February 27, 2006
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Product Description
Whether you’re a CEO or a file clerk, it’s important to understand Sarbanes-Oxley, the post-Enron legislation aimed at keeping corporations honest and ethical. However, with over eighty pages of dense, wordy language in the statute and thousands of pages of related congressional hearings, getting a firm grip of SOX can fluster even the most well-informed businessperson. Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies is the no-nonsense, plain-English guide to this new law that leads you through its rules and pronouncements, giving you a sense of how to anticipate future trends and traps in this area of the law. With this trusty book, you’ll get a handle on the important aspects of the legislation, how it affects you and your company, and how companies can comply more cost-effectively. It provides you with the knowledge to: - Understand why SOX was created
- Determine what aspects of SOX apply to your company
- Develop meaningful standards for your company
- Institute cost-effective compliance with SOX
- Manage and streamline Section 404 compliance
- Find specific SEC laws and pronouncements
- Interpret media accounts, court cases, and economic projections
- Avoid lawsuits and regulatory actions
- Anticipate future SEC rules and PCAOB pronouncements
This book also shows you how to build an effective audit committee and makes suggestions on sensible precautions that every manager should take in order to avoid legal troubles. Complete with the entire Sarbanes-Oxley act and sample documents, Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies helps you discover how to follow the law and protect your business.
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 Sarbanes oxley July 16, 2008
The book is fantastic. Very easy to read and understand. perfect for someone to gain general knowledge about SOX.
 Soxcess! August 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The provisions for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance are only mandatory for
public companies that file a Form 10-K with the SEC - however, more and
more companies are being encouraged {pressured?} to voluntarily
comply with SOX - a good example of which is the United States Postal
Service. Why is this? Because in a free market capitalistic society,
there exists a need to bolster investor confidence in the reliability of
publicly reported financial information. No one wants another Enron.
This book does a great job of laying out - soup to nuts - the SOX
landscape and its key provisions. Everything from the AICPA checklist to
WorldCom misconduct, and everything in between (Arthur Andersen
[remember them?], COBIT, COSO, Enron, Kenneth Lay [departed], and Sox
Sections a plenty - presenting an excellent and at times compelling
picture of Sox, how we got here, and where we're going.
SOX was enacted July 30, 2002 - so if you feel the need to rapidly
graduate off the "SOX dummies list" [their title, not mine], then by
all means get this book!, and be a Soxcess!
It's All There August 3, 2007
Great book. Simple and complete. Sox is explained in easy to understand language. I recommend.
Great for non-financial executives June 8, 2007
I am a CFO of a public company as well as a partner in a CPA firm. The book was very informative but for me it was 75% stuff I already knew. The software chapter was heplful but seemed biased. The book has several minor technical errors but nothing that would really mislead a novice. I bought 5 more copies to give to my controller, board chairman and a division president, as well as to two clients. My six year old son gets a real kick out of the title and exclaims "Sarbanes Oxley for Dummies!" every time he sees it on my night table (could he be a budding SOX consultant??).
 Publisher should read "Printing for Dummies" June 7, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
The introduction was good ... then about 30 or 40 pages into the book, the subject suddenly changed to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Yes, somehow the printer put about 40 pages from a different book into this one! Amazon easily accepted the return. But from now on, I will need to touch a "(Fill in the Blank) for Dummies" book before I buy it.
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