Thursday, October 07, 2004

Craft your SOX narrative to streamline future documentation efforts

As we enter the fourth quarter of 2004, you may find yourself gazing with satisfaction at the stack of documentation you have created and brought up to date for your SOX audit—a job well done. Savor this moment because it is quite likely you have more writing ahead of you.

Ultimately, the audit staff may read every bit of the documents you have created in order to design their tests. However, staring at a tall stack of documentation, they may feel overwhelmed. To get a handle on your processes and documentation, the auditors may ask you for a guide to help them understand it all now. Typically, this guide will take the form of a narrative (or several narratives) that tell the story in words and pictures of how your group performs its processes. In this column, we will give you some tips that will speed your narrative writing process.

Craft your SOX narrative to streamline future documentation efforts

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