This book is a comprehensive guide for IT and finance professionals to comply with SOX. It provides key aspects and components of the Act; show how to assess if a company is SOX compliant; provides a road map to compliance including checklists, worksheets, and project plans; and shows the business and technology implications and resource requirements for compliance. This new edition also includes more details on COSO and COBIT. The tentative contents is: (1) Scope and Assessment of the Act; (2) Internal Controls; (3) Control Environment; (4) Monitoring; (5) Material Weaknesses; (6) Implementing Sarbanes-Oxley; (7) Technology Implications; (8) Sarbanes-Oxley Related Bodies; (9) Opportunities Created by Sarbanes-Oxley; (10) Summary for the CFO; (11) Introduction for the IT Professional; (12) The Issues; (13) Enterprise Technology Ecosystem; (14) Implementing the Socket Framework; and (15) The Process