Saturday, November 12, 2005

Sarbanes-Oxley Act Adds to Costs But Pushes Companies To Prepare


It's important to ensure that top executives and board members take compliance seriously enough, said Ken Coleman, chairman and CEO of ITM Software Corp., a business management tools vendor in Mountain View, Calif. "This is super important. The consequences [of not complying] are significant."

Compliance burdens posed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are proving to be costly for many I.T. departments, according to Gartner Inc. But companies may be better equipped to meet any new federal regulations thanks to the processes they have developed for complying with the law, I.T. executives said last week.

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