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How Vulcan Materials Saves Hundreds of Hours on SOX Testing

Audit Board

One of the great features that we like in AuditBoard is in the SOXHUB module, having your walkthrough, interim, and roll forward testing all in the same screen. One of the features that we elected to use is rolling forward our prior year documentation to next year.

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Three Keys to a Successful SOX Risk Assessment

Audit Board

As businesses begin their SOX planning, adopting a risk-first approach to SOX can help teams drive efficiency throughout their testing year. Once you have documented your lessons learned and best practices for moving forward, you are ready to begin the risk assessment process.

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How to Avoid Chapter 22 in Restructuring Work for Energy Companies

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Decisionmakers, including the courts, should be provided with a stress-tested model. It was a tested mathematical process used then, to model fast neutron chain reactions. In our view, practitioners need to: Take the 13 week rolling cash flow model used during the workout process and expand it to five years.

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How Amsted Industries Cut Hundreds of Hours From Its SOX Process

Audit Board

We have several processes within the software such as our SOX testing that has many, many people going into the software to attach documents and leave comments. In AuditBoard, all of your files are rolled over in 24 hours, and then you click which fields you want to keep and which fields you want to blank out. It’s a good mix.

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IT Dependency (ITD) Validation Process Best Practices

Audit Board

While Access Provisioning, Access Deprovisioning, and Change Management are areas of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) management testing that get a lot of attention, IT Dependency (ITD) validation for completeness and accuracy is often a misunderstood or a missed area of SOX testing by management. Define a Process for Testing Based on Category.

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Financial Reporting in the COVID-19 Era for Accounting Professionals

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For many companies, COVID-19 may be a triggering event, requiring a test for goodwill impairment. Whether it’s an economic decline or changing industry regulations, ask yourself if COVID-19 has triggered an interim goodwill impairment test. discounted cash flows, loss rate, roll rate, or probability of default).