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SOX Assessment
 
Are you ready as per Section 404
 
Systems America understands the significant effort that your organization will expend to comply with Section 404. Systems America also understand the processes, knowledge, and controls that will be required to support the success of your section 404 compliance efforts.

Leveraging our extensive background with internal control, our broad experience with risk and various industries, and our focused methodology, Systems America can assist you in determining how ready your organization is to respond to the requirements imposed by Section 404. Systems America also can help you identify steps that need to be taken to prepare your organization for initiatives to respond to Section 404.
 
Section 404 Pre-Implementation
 
Systems America can help companies address the public reporting aspects of the Act and comply with Section 404. Systems America's Certified Internal Auditors and Certified Public Accountants have worked with numerous organizations in multiple industries to assess, design and implement effective processes. Our proven methodology identifies priority financial reporting elements, documents the processes, risks and controls impacting those priority elements, and documents the evaluation of the key entity- and process-level controls.
 
Systems America SOX 404 services provide the following benefits :
 
  • Well-monitored and documented processes and controls serve as evidence that certifying officers have established an effective internal control structure
  • Identification of key risk areas and control points enable the certifying officers to better manage critical processes and drive accountability throughout the organization
  • Extensive process analysis allows management to compress closing cycle time and address redundant, deficient or obsolete control structures
  • Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide the certifying officers with real-time metrics in order to act quickly as well as comply with shorter timeframe certifications
  • Interactive reporting capabilities and customized dashboards track internal control issues on an ongoing basis, providing ongoing assessment capabilities
  • Value-added action plans increase efficiency and effectiveness of critical processes and improve disclosure infrastructure