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Without a doubt, the Sarbanes-Oxley Law (SOX) is the most important piece of legislation
affecting corporate governing, financial disclosure, and public accounting since
the U.S. securities laws of the early 1930’s. CEOs and CFOs of public companies
must now certify their organization’s financial statements. This course will explain
how these new requirements can be supported by an effective QMS / EMS system.
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Course Deliverables:
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- Provide an awareness of how quality & environmental management
systems can support the compliance of the Sarbanes-Oxley Law (SOX).
- Identify the Business value of QMS/EMS support of SOX
compliance.
- Provide examples of QMS and EMS experts’ experiences in
the SOX effort.
- Provide reference material and define terms useful for
supporting SOX compliance.
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- Introduction
- History of legislation beginning in 1932
- Acronyms, Terms & Definitions
- Sarbanes-Oxley Law: QMS & EMS can reduce the risk!
- How Quality & Environmental Management Systems support
SOX; Auditing to add value.
- Information Technology Support of SOX
- Corporate Governance QMS & EMS can reduce the risk.
- Student Activities
- Case Studies
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Seminar instructor: Dr. Sandford Liebesman had over 30 years experience in
quality at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and Bellcore (Telcordia). He is
an ISO 9000 subject matter expert and is author of the books TL 9000, Release 3.0:
A Guide to Measuring Excellence in Telecommunications, 2nd Edition and
Using ISO 9000 to Improve Business Processes. He is a member of ISO Technical Committee
176 and the ANSI Z-1 Committee on Quality Assurance, is certified by the ASQ Registrar
Accreditation Board as an ISO 9000 Lead auditor, has performed over 90 ISO 9000
and TL 9000 audits and helped many Lucent organizations obtain ISO 9000 and TL 9000
certifications. He currently is a quality management system consultant with Sandford
Quality Consulting LLC and the Kohl Group and an auditor with KEMA Registered Quality.
He is leading the SOX_Q/E Team in support of the Sarbanes-Oxley Law.
Instructor John Walz had over 20 years experience in quality at AT&T, Lucent
Technologies, and SBC (AT&T). He is a subject matter expert in ISO 9000, TL 9000,
BS 7799, IEEE, and CMMI standards and is author of the books TL 9000 Quality Management
Standard for Telecommunications chapter in ISO 9000 Handbook, Fourth Edition, QSU Publishing
Company 2002; Practical CMMI Software Process Documentation- Using IEEE Software
Engineering Standards, John-Wiley/IEEE Press, Nov-05; and upcoming book
Practical ISO 9001 Software Process Documentation- Using IEEE Software Engineering
Standards, John-Wiley/IEEE Press, Sep-06. John is a member of
US TAG to ISO Technical Committee 176 and the ANSI Z-1 Committee on Quality Assurance.
He heads a new Z-1 project on CMMI / ISO 9001. He currently is a quality management
system consultant with The Sutton Group and an instructor for ASQ.
DATE: October 16, 2006
Location: Holiday Inn, Mansfield, MA
Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Learn how the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 support the system
of internal controls now mandated and how these system audits can be combined with
internal financial audits to reduce your organization’s risk.
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