"Wide perspectives and best practices combined deliver a punch that will knock your 'SOX' off! The author has blended together a critical mix necessary for effectively handling the requirements of SOX."
—Rob Nance, Publisher, AccountingWEB, Inc.
"Robust compliance and corporate governance is an absolute necessity in today's business environment. This new book by Anthony Tarantino is an authoritative guide to understanding and implementing compliance and regulatory requirements in the United States and around the world. From SOX to COSO to ERM, this book covers them all."
—Martin T. Biegelman, Certified Fraud Examiner, Fellow and Regent Emeritus of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and coauthor of Executive Roadmap to Fraud Prevention and Internal Control: Creating a Culture of Compliance
"If compliance wasn't difficult enough, now companies are faced with a barrage of technology vendors claiming to automate compliance as if it were a project. In his new book, Dr. Tarantino paints the reality of the situation: companies need to embrace the broader tenets of governance and use technology to embed governance policies and controls into their daily business processes. Only then can they gain business value from their compliance investments."
—Chris Capdevila, CEO and cofounder, LogicalApps
Whether companies or industries are based in the United States, the European Union, Russia, China, or other nations, investors demand a level playing field in comparing financial results. Manager's Guide to Compliance: Best Practices and Case Studies prepares professionals to "clean house" with detailed discussion of:
- U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Sections 401a, 404, 406, and 409 and the impact of SOX on small and foreign filers, privately held businesses, and nonprofits
- SOX-like legislation coming to Australia, Canada, and the U.K.
- Efforts to improve internal controls in the health, banking, and insurance industries
- The movement to create principles-based guidelines by the OECD
- A comparison of the global GAAP by the IFRS to U.S. SOX and U.S. GAAP
- The impact on outsourcing with discussion of¿the SAS 70 audit process
- Best practices in internal controls, accompanied by¿several case studies
- A cost versus benefits analysis
- Mapping COBIT to COSO I, COSO II, & the PCAOB
- Best practices in internal controls–Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
- BASEL II
- The U.S. government's version of U.S. SOX: OMB Circular A-123
- Best practices in compliance and internal controls: ASX 10 Principles
A useful introductory handbook for internal and external auditors as well as for regulators, Manager's Guide to Compliance: Best Practices and Case Studies is the guide for current global compliance regulations to keep your company moving forward in challenging times.
About the Author
Anthony G. Tarantino, PhD, has thirty years of business management experience, is the author of over a dozen published articles and white papers on compliance, and is a frequent speaker to professional associations. He held a CPM and CPIM designation for twenty years and is preparing for his black belt in Six Sigma. He has led over a dozen compliance initiatives including designing and implementing compliance software tools, leading internal audit, conducting 404 readinesses, and implementing internal controls best practices for U.S., European,and Asian companies.
