SOX 404 Virtual Conference: Adapting to Changing Regulations

Discover the best ways to handle 2024’s toughest SOX and Risk Management Challenges.
 

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SOX 404 Virtual Conference: Adapting to Changing Regulations

CPE Credit: 16 Hours

Price: $899.00

NASBA Field of Study: Accounting

$499 per day or take both days for just $899!

 

Overview

As a result of consistently changing regulations, businesses need to keep adapting their SOX 404 programs in order to remain compliant and to continue driving value. This can be done by taking advantage of the latest technological trends and innovations such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as making greater efforts to keep up with hot topics such as ESG regulatory awareness, cybersecurity, third party risk management, and geopolitical risk. This virtual conference will provide fresh insight and update you on the latest information to help you develop your SOX program to bring greater value to your business.

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DAY ONE AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS


•  Recent Regulations That Will Impact SOX
   Programs

•  Audit Committee’s Role in Financial Reporting
   & Oversight

•  ESG Regulatory Update

•  Geopolitical Risk

•  Industry Panel Discussion: SOX Insights,
   Including Innovation in the SOX Program

• Third-Party Risk Management

DAY TWO AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS


•  Cybersecurity: SEC Rules & PCAOB Guidance

•  Integrated Risk Management & Panel
   Discussion

•  SEC Enforcement, FCPA & Other Regulatory 
   Compliance

•  Responsible AI

•  Panel Discussion: ICFR Lessons Learned &
   Leading Practices

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVE  This webinar will provide updates on new rules and regulations impacting SOX compliance and the
latest best practices to reduce compliance costs and maximize internal controls in a post-COVID world.

PREREQUISITE  None.    ADVANCE PREPARATION  None.    PROGRAM LEVEL  Update.    NASBA FIELD OF STUDY  Accounting.
DELIVERY METHOD  Group Internet-Based.

Agenda

DAY ONE AGENDA


Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:45 – 9:00 AM

Recent Regulations That Will Impact SOX Programs
9:00 – 10:00 AM
The SEC and PCAOB continue to focus on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR). This session will provide an overview of the specific ICFR areas that remain on their combined radar, including current trends of material weaknesses and the growing emphasis on ESG and Cybersecurity disclosures.

Break
10:00 – 10:05 AM

Audit Committee’s Role in Financial Reporting & Oversight
10:05 – 11:05 AM
In addition to financial reporting oversight, Audit Committees are also responsible for overseeing risk, ethics and compliance, and internal and external audits. However, this role is constantly evolving as a result of changes within the business environment. In this session, a panel of experts including audit committee members will discuss the common challenges that Audit Committees are facing, such as enhancing communication, bolstering the strength of audit functions, assembling the right committee personnel, and managing workload
.

Break
11:05 – 11:10 AM

ESG Regulatory Update
11:10 AM – 12:10 PM
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) has become a permanent addition to public company corporate reporting and performance measurement. It is also creating additional customer reporting mandates for private companies. Stakeholders, such as investors, regulators, employees and customers, are requesting and even demanding greater transparency. Accuracy and completeness is expected now at the same level of maturity as financial disclosure and performance. In this session, we will discuss:
• Making ESG an integral part of strategy and governance
• 
The transition from voluntary to regulated reporting under three regimes—US SEC, ISSB and CSRD
• Global convergence of ESG standards and regional requirements
• Integrating ESG into Enterprise Risk Management
• Internal Control over Sustainability Reporting (ICSR)
• 
Assurance requirements and standards for assurers

Lunch
12:10 – 12:55 PM

Geopolitical Risk
12:55 – 1:55 PM
Due to the current global business environment, leaders should include considerations for geopolitical risk within their risk management strategies. In this session, we will discuss the importance of a proactive approach to identifying, assessing and mitigating the potential impact of geopolitical risk, and discuss key insights on:
• Identifying/collecting quantitative potential risk indicators
• Developing/acquiring the ability to assess the business impact of political risk
• Integrating political risk into ERM

• Engaging your board and C-suite to incorporate political risk into strategic planning

Break
1:55 – 2:00 PM

Industry Panel Discussion: SOX Insights, Including Innovation in the SOX Program
2:00 – 3:30 PM
This roundtable panel discussion will be moderated by a Big 4 accounting leader, and feature industry practitioners who will provide insights on today's hottest risk management and SOX compliance topics. In this highly interactive session, we encourage attendees to share their real-world experiences, and gain solutions to their biggest challenges from the nation's leading SOX authorities, taking into account lessons learned.

Break
3:30 – 3:35 PM

Third-Party Risk Management
3:35 – 4:35 PM
Businesses increasingly rely on third parties to drive efficiency and cost savings. As a downside, businesses find it hard to manage how third parties use their data. This session will focus on areas where organizations are being asked to emphasize, including:
• Conducting coordinated risk assessment across the supply chain
• Ensuring that IT and systems are fully secured

• Carefully selecting the critical service providers
• Addressing regulatory requirements and incorporating policies and procedures across the business to
  assess risk across the whole third-party lifecycle

Closing Remarks
4:35 – 4:45 PM

 

DAY TWO AGENDA


Opening Remarks
8:45 – 9:00 AM

Cybersecurity: SEC Rules & PCAOB Guidance
9:00
 – 10:00 AM

Break
10:00 – 1
0:05 AM

Integrated Risk Management & Panel Discussion
10:05 – 11:20 AM

Integrated risk management uses a digitally enabled, forward-looking approach to improve business decision-making and performance across the three lines of defense. In this session we will discuss how effective integrated risk management programs function, promote transparency, and give management better decision-making information as well as the role a company's risk management program plays in this environment.

Break
11:20 – 11:30 
AM

SEC Enforcement, FCPA & Other Regulatory Compliance
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
• Recent trends in SEC enforcement
• Scrutiny of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR)
• Leading practices in FCPA compliance

Lunch
12:30 – 1:15 PM

Responsible AI
1:15 – 2:45 PM

Break
2:45 – 2:55 PM

Panel Discussion: ICFR Lessons Learned & Leading Practices
2:55 – 4:25 PM

This roundtable discussion will examine how lessons learned during the pandemic can be used to optimize your current and future SOX life cycles. You will discover ways to improve risk assessment, control selection and design, controls related to significant unusual transactions, Information Used in Controls (IUC), and how to implement new technology to modernize your SOX program.

Closing Remarks
4:25 – 4:40 PM

Conference Ends
4:40 PM

Speakers

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS


Sabrina Abramson, SVP, Head of Internal Audit, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

John Ackerman, Audit Leader, Ernst & Young LLP

Patricia Agenmonmen, Senior Business Consulting, Ernst & Young LLP

Douglas Bell, Global Trade Policy Leader, Ernst & Young LLP

Maggie Biggs, Vice President, ERM, VF Corporation

Nick Britton, Director, Attack & Penetration, Protiviti

Steven Brouwers, Director, Finance, Compliance & Process Improvement, Quaker Houghton

Staci Brown, Director, Alphabet Internal Controls & SOX Compliance, Google

Savannah Burgoyne, Associate, Latham & Watkins

Tricia Callahan, Managing Director, Security & Privacy,  Protiviti

Hongwei Chen, Senior Director, NRG Energy

Juan D. Gama Cubides, Internal Audit, Laureate International Universities

Rani Doyle, Board Matters Executive Director, Ernst & Young LLP

Kanishak Dua, Executive Advisor on Security Risk Management, Ernst & Young LLP

Megan Duggan, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young LLP

Dennis Ethier, Director of Internal Audit, Xerox Business Solutions

Jaime Fernandez, Vice President, Head of Internal Audit, WWE Corp

Damaris Fynn, Executive Director, Ernst & Young LLP

Jessica Gidney, Director, Risk Management & Internal Audit, Bioventus

Robert Hirth, Senior Managing Director, Protiviti, Member, PCAOB & AICPA

Norris James, Senior Manager Risk & Strategy Consulting, Ernst & Young LLP

Marie Johnson, Partner, Assurance and Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP

Mark Johnson, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young LLP

Jackie Klos, Partner, Financial Accounting Advisory Services, Ernst & Young LLP

Nelson Knight, Risk Manager, Ernst & Young LLP

Jen Lee, Senior Manager, Center for Board Matters, Ernst & Young LLP

Dan Leifer, Manager, Internal Controls and Compliance, MITRE

Elysa Lipsky, Executive Director, Internal Controls, Laureate International

Jamee Lopiano, Enterprise Risk Manager, Ernst & Young LLP

Susan Markel, Managing Director, AlixPartners

James Matcher, Advisory Principal, Intelligent Automation, Ernst & Young LLP

Linda Milburn-Pyle, Managing Director, Risk & Compliance, Accenture

Greg Moore, Member – Board of Directors, Texas Roadhouse

Howard Mundell, Senior Manager, IT Compliance and Service Management, American Water

Stefan Elliot Ozer, Partner, Deloitte

Roby Palakudy, Manager, Global Risk, General Dynamics

Chirag Parikh, Vice President, Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Audit, Comscore Inc.

Anish Patel, Executive Director, Internal Audit & Internal Controls, Laureate International

Lindsay Redman, Senior Vice President, AlixPartners

Alexander Rodde, Vice President, Internal Controls & SOX / Global Risk & Assurance Services, SAP

Lindsay Rosenfeld, Managing Director, Audit & Assurance, Deloitte

Bruno Sarda, Partner/Principal, Climate Change & Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young LLP

Jamie Smith, Center for Board Matters, Ernst & Young LLP

Jeff Tannenbaum, Vice President, IT Compliance, Laureate International

Kapil Temghare, Third Party Risk Management Specialist, Ernst & Young LLP

John Venus, Senior Vice President, Internal Audit, Endeavor

Brian Wilkinson, Principal, Cyber Security Consulting, Ernst & Young LLP

Simon Wong, Senior Manager, Business Consulting, Ernst & Young LLP

 

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