SOX 404 / Corporate Controller's Handbook Bundle (2011)

Author: Sridhar Ramamoorti; Jae K. Shim; Joel G. Siegel; Nick Dauber
Publisher: CCH U.S.
ISBN: empty-242
Published In: December 2010
Format: Paperback (2 volumes) + CD-ROM
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SOX 404 / Corporate Controller’s Handbook Bundle (2011) is a book bundle comprised of three titles:

SOX 404 for Small, Publicly Held Companies, with CD (2011)
Corporate Controller’s Handbook of Financial Management, with CD (2010 - 2011)
Top Accounting Issues for 2011 Course

SOX 404 for Small, Publicly Held Companies, with CD (2011)

SOX 404 for Small, Publicly Held Companies assists the management of small publicly held companies in complying with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This guide helps management in assessing the effectiveness of its company’s internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting. In making internal control assessments, management often identifies situations where internal controls can be improved; this book helps management achieve these improvements cost-effectively.

SOX 404 for Small, Publicly Held Companies addresses every aspect of performing assessments of internal controls over financial reporting, as well as assessments of disclosure controls. Practice pointers and practical considerations are provided throughout the text so that management can focus on the most critical areas. The book explains the Securities and Exchange Commission rules for assessments of internal controls and analyses the latest requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for independent auditors.....

Corporate Controller’s Handbook of Financial Management, with CD (2010-2011)

CCH’s Corporate Controller’s Handbook of Financial Management is a comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management. Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give CFOs, corporate financial managers, and controllers quick answers to day-to-day questions.

The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes dual pre- and post-FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm’s financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence....

Top Accounting Issues for 2011 CPE Course

CCH’s Top Accounting Issues for 2011 Course helps CPAs stay abreast of the most significant new standards and important projects. It does so by identifying the events of the past year that have developed into hot issues and reviewing the opportunities and pitfalls presented by the changes. The topics reviewed were selected because of their impact on financial reporting and because of the role they play in understanding the accounting landscape in the year ahead....

SOX 404 for Small, Publicly Held Companies, with CD (2011)

Overview of Requirements

Overview of Requirements
Planning the Assessment
Mapping the Organization
Tentative Risk Assessments
Making Tentative Internal Control Assessments
Testing Internal Control Assessments
Completing the Assessment
Concluding and Reporting Management’s Assessment

Corporate Controller’s Handbook of Financial Management, with CD (2010 -2011)

The 2010-2011 edition of the Corporate Controller’s Handbook of Financial Management contains 61 chapters covering the following topic areas:

Responsibilities of the Controller
SEC Reporting
Controller’s Reports
Computer Applications, including chapters on data base management, the client/server environment, and using computers in Financial decision making
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including Financial statement Reporting, Accounting and disclosures, interim and segmental Reporting, and more
Management Accounting, including product costing Systems and classifications, joint products and by-products, Analysis of cost behavior, cost-volume-profit Analysis and leverage, cost allocation, contribution margin Analysis for nonroutine decisions, Budgeting and Financial modeling, using Variance Analysis, improving management Performance, ABC, JIT, TQM, quantitative Applications in corporate Financial management, and more
Internal Auditing and Control, including Internal audit of Financial statement accounts, the Internal audit function and Internal Control, and forensic Accounting
Financial Analysis, including Financial statement Analysis, managing Analysis of operations, controlling revenue and Costs, managing and analyzing risk, reengineering and outsourcing the Business, derivative products and reengineering, and more
Management of Assets, including management of working Capital and Cash, accounts receivable, and inventory
Investments, including corporate Investments in securities and portfolio diversification and risk management
Financing the Business, including short- and long-term Financing, term loans and leasing, warrants and convertibles, cost of Capital and Capital structure decisions, and more
Corporate Valuations
Tax Preparation and Planning, including payroll taxes and how taxes affect Business decisions
Mergers, Divestitures and Failure, including Business strategies and shareholder value Analysis, Financial and earnings forecasting, Cash flow forecasting and Cash Budgeting, forecasting Financial distress, and more.

Sridhar Ramamoorti, Ph.D., CPA, CIA, CFE, has a unique, blended academic-practitioner background with over 25 years of experience in academia, auditing, and consulting in India, the Middle East and the United States. After finishing his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, Dr. Ramamoorti served on the accountancy faculty of the University of Illinois. Subsequently, he has been a principal in the professional standards group of Arthur Andersen, Sarbanes Oxley Advisor for Ernst & Young’s National Advisory Practices and a Corporate Governance partner with Grant Thornton. A member of the Grant Thornton authoring team on the recently issued COSO Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control Systems, he is also co-author of the second edition of an IIA-published textbook on internal auditing as well as The Audit Committee Handbook, to be published by John Wiley/Grant Thornton in fall 2009.

Active in the profession, Dr. Ramamoorti serves on many nonprofit boards, and has been the inaugural Chairman of the Academy for Government Accountability, a Trustee of the IIA Research Foundation, and is Co-Chairing the Steering Committee for the Global Common Body of Knowledge (CBOK) Study for the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Jae K. Shim, Ph.D., is a financial consultant to several companies and Professor of Accounting and Finance at California State University in Long Beach. Dr. Shim has 40 books to his credit and has published more than 50 articles in accounting and financial journals.

Joel G. Siegel, Ph.D., CPA, is a self-employed certified public accountant and professor of accounting at Queens College of the City University of New York. Previously, he was employed by Coopers & Lybrand and Arthur Andersen. Dr. Siegel has acted as a consultant in accounting to many organizations, including Citicorp, International Telephone and Telegraph, United Technologies, American Institute of CPAs, and Person-Wolinsky Associates. He is the author of 68 books and 300 articles on accounting topics. Dr. Siegel was the recipient of the Outstanding Educator of America Award and has served as chairperson of the National Oversight Board.

Nick Dauber, MS, CPA, is an accounting practitioner with client responsibilities primarily in auditing and taxation. His prior experience includes service as an audit and tax manager at a CPA firm. He is also an Instructor of Auditing and Taxation at Queens College of the City University of New York and was a lecturer and writer in auditing and taxation for Person-Wolinsky Associates.