The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Services Oriented Architecture May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You

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• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was passed in 2002 in response to a series of high-profile corporate scandals and requires that public companies implement internal controls over financial reporting, operations, and assets; these controls depend heavily on installing or improving information technology and business methods
• Written by one of the most visible personalities on the tech-biz side of the SOX discussion, this highly readable, engaging book provides a clear road map for integrating SOX compliance into the fabric of everyday IT infrastructure and business practice
• Shows the reader how to leverage and use service-oriented architecture (SOA), a set of technologies that enables interoperation of heterogeneous computer systems, to achieve the level of internal controls over IT that SOX mandates

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The Accounting Jobs are the Thing to Do!

Henry Cisneros, the former U.S. secretary of housing and urban development stated, “there is a golden rule in this country: Whoever has the gold control the rules.” Princeton Review lists Business Administration and Management as the number 1 top college major.

 

So you say Accounting is boring! Are you kidding me! Have you watched the ever so watched THE SOPRANO’S? A bit scary however, you have to admit, that accountant is living on the edge. With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) in 2002, (which is the act that holds CEO’s and CFO’s responsible for any errors made in the financial statements) this has definitely raised the demand and interest for Accountants. Accounting has become the center of small businesses with less than 500 employees.

 

Now how’s that! You are the center of attention!

 

Globalization of businesses has strengthened the need for more broadly educated accountants, as well as the proliferation of services offered by accounting firms, such as tax advice, management consulting, compensation surveys and many more services. Now that computers handle the bulk of the (as Wall Street infamously calls it) “bean counting” functions of Accounting, professionals spend more time working on in-depth analysis and again serving major role in decision making. Accounting can be divided into four major categories (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor):

 

Auditors and Internal Auditors

 

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Government Accountants

 

Salary is so varied, however the average starting salary now would be anywhere between $36,000 and $50,000.

 

Management Accountants

 

The average starting salary for a management accountant is between $40,000 and $55,000.

 

Public Accountants

 

The salary range for an associate accountant is $32,000 – $45,000; for a senior public accountant it’s between $48,000-$55,000; and a manager averages anywhere between $60,000 and $100,000.

 

Within these categories are great deals of fields for accountants to get into. Although the competition is still holding high there will be no shortage of these positions. So Again is Accounting boring and dull? Nonsense. If money is attractive to you, then Accounting just might be your playmate.

 

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