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Manager's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Improving
Internal Controls to Prevent Fraud
 Manager's
Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Provides a Highly Accessible, Simple,
and Practical Approach to Help You Assess Your Internal Control
Structure at the Transaction Level.
In reaction to high-profile frauds and congressional legislation, the SEC mandated
that managers of public companies certify that they have an operational
system of internal controls. While larger companies can afford
to spend millions of dollars to implement control system monitoring
tools, managers of small to mid-sized companies can be unsure
of how to move forward if their budgets can't accommodate expensive
advisors and systems. Manager's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
provides a highly accessible, simple, and practical approach to
help you assess your internal control structure at the transaction
level.
Designed to be "a cure for the Sarbanes-Oxley headache and
common fraud," Manager's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act introduces the
groundbreaking and practical "Control Smart" approach that not only meets the
requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, but also alerts you if operational controls
stop working or are otherwise compromised. This simple template helps you
identify and understand operational threats, and guides you through a
comprehensive evaluation of your system of internal controls to mitigate these
risks.
Manager's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act features:
- A razor-sharp method to monitor the opera- tional risks inherent in your business
- Numerous real-world examples illustrating how to avoid common pitfalls, such as those faced by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Adelphia Communications, and Bridgestone Corporation (Firestone)
- Case studies and vignettes highlighting the personalities at Enron and Tyco who enabled a fraudulent corporate culture, as well as what one person did right to reveal the smoke-and-mirrors accounting practiced at WorldCom
- Clear, jargon-free coverage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and how it affects you
Armed with this hands-on guide, you can detect early signs
of fraud and operational loss, and safeguard your job, your employees' jobs,
and the long-term success of your company. Don't let fraud derail your career.
Protect yourself with the fail-safe Control Smart method found in Manager's
Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Author: Scott Green
Format: Hardcover, 234 pages, February 2004
Item#: 978-0-471-56975-5
Price: $49.95 US
"Scott Green has provided us with a book on management controls
that is as engaging as it is illuminating. I enthusiastically
recommend this book to managers of financial institutions of any
size."—John Duffy, Chairman of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
"Recent, widely publicized business failures and accounting deficiencies
that were a contributing cause make a strong case for a comprehensive
system of controls, such as those proposed in Scott Green's book."—Orval
Hansen, Former U.S. Congressman
"A necessary read for any director, executive, or line manager
who is serious about monitoring the health of their internal control
structure."—Holly Gregory, Partner at Weil, Gotshal &
Manges
"A must-read . . . is the chapter on the 'Control Smart' approach.
This chapter, which will clearly help businesses monitor themselves,
covers all the key factors necessary to 'erase vulnerabilities
and erect a strong [control environment] defense,' ranging from
pinpointing coming threats and knowing your vulnerabilities to
protecting your business and monitoring its health."—Herman
A. Berliner, PhD Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic
Affairs, Lawrence Herbert Distinguished Professor Hofstra University
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