ASQ’s 2nd Annual Sarbanes-Oxley Conference

Who Should Attend:

• Executives
• Risk Managers
• Financial Managers
• Information Technology Managers
• Financial/Accounting Managers
• Quality Managers/Environmental Managers
• Quality Professionals/Engineers
• Environmental Professionals/Engineers
• Operations Managers
• Internal Quality Auditors
• Internal Environmental Auditors
• Internal Financial Auditors

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the parts of SOX supported by QMS, EMS and other management systems.
• Identify the benefits of the process approach and apply the approach to SOX compliance.
• Measure the effectiveness and performance of an IMS against objectives and benchmarks.
• Recognize process inefficiencies, risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Use the continual improvement process to increase effectiveness and performance of the internal controls.
• Integrate management system audits with internal financial audits to reduce the risks to an organization.
• Assess gaps in the compliance structure.
• Identify and correct communication problems with respect to SOX compliance to reduce turf wars.
• Identify best practices and lessons learned.

Track One: Integrated Management Systems

Keynote: Joseph DeFeo, Juran Institute

• Get in-depth information on the benefits of integrated management.
• Understand the framework for integrating various types of internal controls.
• See how integrated internal controls aid governance and relate to corporate liability and financial materiality.

Track Two: IT Software

Keynote: Sanjay Anand, The Sarbanes-Oxley Institute

• Understand how information technology automation supports sustainable SOX compliance.
• Recognize how many SOX compliance risks are actually IT risks.

Track Three: Integrated Audits

Keynote: Tim Leech, Paisley Consulting

• Learn how auditing contributes to top management’s understanding of the organization’s operations.
• See the value of integrated SOX/QMS auditing and the opportunities to reduce cost.
• Review case studies of integrated audits.

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