Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance Services

Principals

Mary Meyers

Dave Naser

Press Releases (PDF)

May 7, 2008
Victor Joins Pittsburgh Office

May 2, 2008
Emrich Named to CITP Task Force

January 17, 2008
DeLorenzo Earns Certified Ethical Hacker Certification

Brochures (PDF)

Corporate Governance & Risk Management Brochure

Fine Tuning Your Operating Procedures with our Risk-Based Approach to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance

Parente Randolph can transform your Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance approach. We go beyond a basic compliance exercise into one that can identify and build stronger controls, standardize your procedures across business units, and improve your overall processes.

We advise you to treat the requirement as an opportunity to take a long, hard look at your business processes. Parente Randolph can help you identify risks and controls seeking to drive down costs, improve revenue, and at the same time achieve compliance.

SOX 404 compliance is a key corporate governance initiative for management. Parente Randolph assists clients with SOX using our risk-based approach.

Parente Randolph’s SOX Service Compliance Items

Key items we offer include:

providing support and guidance on SOX strategy and SOX team structure
providing advice in the selection of significant accounts
providing guidance as to how to select “in-scope” entities
providing support and guidance on documenting processes and the selection of controls testing strategies
assisting with or perform process documentation
assisting management to identify risks within processes
assisting with or perform controls testing
identifying those risks which either have no control in place or where the control is not effective or inefficient
work with management to implement remedial actions where necessary
providing an integrated IT compliance strategy and identify key systems that support the business process

Enterprise Risk Management

There is widespread concern for effective corporate governance and identifying risk within organizations. Our enterprise risk management approach will guide you through the maze of regulations, laws and standards.

Parente Randolph will help clients with:

aligning strategy with risk appetite
facilitating management meeting(s)
risk identification
developing 1-3 internal audit plans

Parente Randolph works with organizations, large and small, to develop customized corporate governance, risk management systems.

Internal Controls

Parente Randolph helps organizations develop up-to-date policies and procedures. We will meet with you and review your company for design and operational gaps. We also help with remediation issues, such as separation of duties. And we will facilitate training sessions for client employees to enhance their organization’s internal controls structure.