Our SOX 5-Day Accelerated Training and Certification Program provides you with a thorough understanding of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and how it applies to your job, your career, your company and your industry. This blended-learning program employs outcome-based (Lecture/Lab/Review)^TM delivery that focuses on preparing you with the practical Sarbanes-Oxley skills you’ll need to achieve your certification and accelerate your career. Students will live, learn, and take exams at one of our state-of-the-art education centers.

Our SOX Training and Certification Program:

• Allows you to achieve your certification in a fraction of the time of “traditional training” while delivering industry-leading exam passing percentages.
• Helps you grasp complex technical concepts more easily by identifying and catering to your individual learning style through a mixed visual, auditory and kinesthetic-tactual delivery system.
• Enhances your retention by employing accelerated learning techniques focused on committing information to long-term memory.

The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Training and Certification Program is offered in partnership with the prestigious Sarbanes-Oxley Institute – the only global provider of Sarbanes-Oxley professional certifications. This rigorous course is based on actual projects and uses real-world training methodology. Once you’re certified, you’ll possess the in-depth knowledge and hands-on skills you need to protect your company – and take your career to the next level.

Individuals:

• Learn practical Sarbanes-Oxley skills you can use on the job.
• Gain access to a wide range of SOX-related experts and instructors.
• Increase your effectiveness on the job in days, instead of months.

Companies:

• SOX-certified employees will help elevate and secure your company’s accounting and business methods.
• Knowledgeable employees help create a compliant and more ethical organization.
• Customers see great value in certification - they want the people on their engagement to have the best skills, and certification provides that proof point.

Human Resources:

• Employer-funded training and certification programs are a key to retaining skilled staff. Career development and advancement opportunities are shown to significantly reduce rates of employee turnover.
• Certification Training Programs provide benchmarks for hiring and promotion decisions by accurately assessing technical skills.
• For-certification training programs maximize educational investments through immediate validation of skills.

What's Included:

Training Camp offers the highest quality technical education in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so our students can focus solely on their educational objectives.

Our SOX Certification Program includes:

• Intensive Training by Certified Trainers utilizing our (Lecture | Lab | Review)™ Delivery
• Blended-Learning Instruction comprised of comprehensive study materials and pre-class mentoring, customized SOX Institute curriculum, official SOX Institute courseware, comprehensive lab manuals, and self-test Software
• Optional Package of Five (5) Days of Hotel Accommodations, Breakfast and Lunch, Unlimited Beverages, Snacks, and Freshly-brewed Coffee
• 24-Hour Instructor Access
• Examination Vouchers & On-site Certification Testing
• Examination Passing Policy

Training Camp has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our SOX Trainers teach to accommodate every student’s learning needs through individualized instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, question and answer drills, and friendly competitions between concurrently running classes. Students will have 24-hour access to quality personal workstations, audiovisual equipment, supplies, and lab equipment.

Examination Passing Policy. Should a student complete a Training Camp Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year.  Students will only be responsible for accommodation and vendor exam fees.

What You'll Learn:

Students who successfully complete the Sarbanes-Oxley Training and Certification Program will possess the knowledge and skills required to ensure SOX compliance within specific functions of an organization.

Course Materials:

While attending this blended-learning program, you will receive a robust set of course materials that caters to each of the three primary individual learning-intake styles (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic-tactual) – critical for a successful accelerated learning experience.  In addition to daily lectures, labs and review sessions, the course will cover the following materials, in depth. You will receive a complimentary copy of each:

The Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals by Sanjay Anand (a $50 value)

This edited collection by Sanjay Anand, the Chairperson of SOX Institute, is widely regarded to be the most comprehensive SOX compliance guide for IT and finance professionals. Within its pages, you’ll find:

• Key aspects and components of the SOX Act.
• Valuable information on how to assess a company’s SOX compliancy.
• A “roadmap” to compliance, including checklists, worksheets and project plans.
• Business and technology implications and resource requirements for compliance.

ISACA/ITGI: Information Technology Control Objectives (COBIT) for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

This document by ISACA sets out the IT control objectives that might be considered for assessing internal controls, as required by the SOX Act. This is a practical guide for IT rollout in organizations. The Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit:

Practice Aids for Managers and Auditors by Michael Ramos (a $75 value – includes CD ROM)

This is the first book to provide detailed implementation practice aids for Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance. It’s filled with work programs, audit checklists and examples that you can tailor to meet your own needs. A useful CD ROM is included, and contains all of the tools from the book.