Sarb-Ox adds to cost, length of IT projects

As publicly traded companies are forced to document their internal controls to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, some are seeing a trickle-down effect: longer and more costly IT projects.
That's because project teams now have to conduct more thorough quality-assurance assessments and testing throughout project life cycles to document IT controls, according to IT managers and analysts who were interviewed last week.

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