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What is SOX 404 Compliance?

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Corporate compliance is a major undertaking for a few reasons–IT systems become complex, work forces grow to hundreds of individuals with different levels of access to information and public corporations must file difficult financial and security attestations annually to prevent fraud. 

One of the essential forms of financial and IT compliance for publicly-traded companies in the U.S. is SOX 404 compliance, or compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. 

Learn more about SOX 404 and how it might impact your company.

 

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What is Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Compliance?

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The U.S. faced several disheartening and frustrating scandals in the earliest part of the century. Without regulations guiding them to be transparent, corporations were regularly falsifying financial records or defrauding their investors. To curb this issue, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This act, also known as SOX, codified a set of reporting and auditing standards into law to force corporations to provide truthful and accurate financial information and avoid further fraud issues. 

Here we discuss some of the implications of SOX and how you can approach compliance for your publicly traded company. 

 

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