Sarbanes-Oxley - SOX Certification

Curriculum

Our award winning four-day Sarbanes Oxley SOX Certification is the most effective, efficient way for professionals to prepare for and pass the CSOX examination. Students who successfully complete the Sarbanes-Oxley Training and Certification Program will possess the knowledge and skills required to ensure SOX compliance within specific functions of an organization.

Course Materials:

While attending this blended-learning program, you will receive a robust set of course materials that caters to each of the three primary individual learning-intake styles (auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic-tactual) - critical for a successful accelerated learning experience.

In addition to daily lectures, labs and review sessions, the course will cover the following materials, in depth. You will receive a complimentary copy of each:

• The Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals by Sanjay Anand (a $50 value) This edited collection by Sanjay Anand, the Chairperson of SOX Institute, is widely regarded to be the most comprehensive SOX compliance guide for IT and finance professionals. Within its pages, you'll find:
  • Key aspects and components of the SOX Act
  • Valuable information on how to assess a company's SOX compliancy
  • A 'roadmap' to compliance, including checklists, worksheets and project plans
  • Business and technology implications and resource requirements for compliance
• ISACA/ITGI: Information Technology Control Objectives (COBIT) for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). This document by ISACA sets out the IT control objectives that might be considered for assessing internal controls, as required by the SOX Act. This is a practical guide for IT rollout in organizations.
• The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit: Practice Aids for Managers and Auditors by Michael Ramos (a $75 value - includes CD ROM). This is the first book to provide detailed implementation practice aids for Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance. It's filled with work programs, audit checklists and examples that you can tailor to meet your own needs. A useful CD ROM is included, and contains all of the tools from the book.

Firebrand Training has an aggressive educational schedule that thoroughly covers all essential elements critical to an effective Project Management Professional:

• Lesson Objectives
• History and Impact of SOX
• Events leading up to the Act
• Key Components of the Act
• The role of the SEC and PCAOB
• Consequences for business
• SOX and Other Regulations
• Critical Sections of SOX Act including 302, 404, 409, 806, 301
• CEO/CFO Disclosure, Certification
• Internal Controls, Assertions, Risk
• Frameworks and Methodologies
• COSO, COBIT, ISO 17799, ITIL
• SOX for Foreign Issuers, SAS 70
• Entire SOX Compliance Roadmap
• Review of Day One
• Revisit SOX Compliance Roadmap
• Entity- and Process-level Controls
• Application & IT General Controls
• Designing, Documenting Controls
• Primary and Secondary Controls
• Preventive and Detective Controls
• Deficiencies and Weaknesses
• Identify, isolate and remediate
• Develop and Execute Test Plans
• Case-Study Discussion
• Breakout into Workshop Groups
• Conduct Case-Study Exercise
• Present Case-Study Exercise
• Revisit SOX Compliance Roadmap
• Understanding Project Management and SOX Implementation
• Understanding the SOXA Methodology
• Breakout into Workshop Groups
• Conduct Case-Study Exercise
• Present Case-Study Exercise
• Interactive CSOX Exam-Objective Reinforcement
• CSOX Exam Delivery