Use this guide to transition your organization’s SOX sustainability program from an ad-hoc process to a sustainable, cost-effective and value-added process over time. In order to meet this objective, the sustainability plan has four stages.

The benefits of this approach include: responsibility for assessing control lies with the process owner, control monitoring is part of regular job performance, all levels of organization assume responsibility for effective risk management, self-assessment reinforces process owner accountability for critical controls, a wider range of locations is covered, and costs of compliance are decreased through imbedding control ownership within the organization.