Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance required that most companies that report financial results after November 15, 2004 ...

Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance required that most companies that report financial results after November 15, 2004 obtain an attestation from an outside auditor on the effectiveness of their internal controls.  Some companies, in an effort to meet the deadline, put in place non-optimized and labor-intensive controls in order to meet the basic regulatory requirements.  Many of these companies are now reviewing the controls put into place and evaluating potential technology options in an effort to make meeting this regulatory requirement less manual and more efficient.  This template addresses the general activities that make up this process.  This project assumes that the organization is already SOX compliant.