SOX's : Unready for Sarbanes-Oxley?

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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