SoX Panel

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SoX Panel
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NorCalOAUG Training Day

• Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002
• Complaince initiative for all public companies
• in fiscal reporting
• audit of controls for manual tasks
• and audit of system controls
• Panel Discussion to understand compliance
  initiative impact on IT

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PCAOB Release No. 2005-023November 30, 2005

• The inefficiencies observed by the Board varied
  in form and degree among firms and engagement
  teams

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PCAOB Release No. 2005-023November 30, 2005

• Some auditors did not integrate their audits of
  internal control with their audits of financial
  statements

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PCAOB Release No. 2005-023November 30, 2005

• Some auditors did not effectively apply a
  top-down approach
• To varying degrees, auditors often approached
  the audit of internal control from the bottom up
• The Board expects that auditors will use a
  top-down approach to a greater extent in the
  future
• This will make audits both more effective and
  more efficient

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PCAOB Release No. 2005-023November 30, 2005

• Auditors often appeared to take a uniform
  approach to their testing, inadequately
  considering the unique risk factors within each
  company
• As a result, some auditors appeared to have
  expended more effort than was necessary in
  lower-risk areas

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PCAOB Release No. 2005-023November 30, 2005

• Some auditors performed inefficient, and
  sometimes ineffective, walkthroughs of major
  classes of transactions
• They used different transactions to test each
  control separately rather than walking a single
  transaction through the entire process

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PCAOB Release No. 2005-023November 30, 2005

• Some auditors did not use the work of others to
  the extent permitted by Auditing Standard No. 2
• This will most likely make more efficient use of
  their time performing their audits of internal
  control

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NorCalOAUG Training Day

• Moderator
• Mohan Iyer
• Board Member since inception of the NorCalOAUG
• He can be contacted at mohan_at_norcaloaug.org
• Mohan is a Principal Consultant at FSCP Solutions
  Inc.

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NorCalOAUG Training Day

• Panel Members
• Prasad Gullapali from FormFactor
• Kavita Khatwani from Xilinx
• Krista Ladd from Silicon Image
• Scott Tang from Echelon