SOX Projects Still Lack IT Involvement
Getting technology managers and staffers involved in the process of documenting internal IT controls is turning out to be a big challenge.
In an informal poll of the attendees at a recent Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance conference in Irving, Texas, roughly half of the 250 or so attendees indicated via a show of hands that their IT departments have been reluctant to help corporate auditors document IT controls in order to meet the Section 404 requirements of the financial-reporting law.