SOX Compliance Management

The Archer Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Management solution enables your organization to automate and manage your compliance efforts, thereby reducing the effort and costs associated with SOX initiatives. This flexible solution provides a centralized, web-enabled environment for authoring and publishing internal control documentation. Archer supports your risk-based scoping process, design and operating test execution, deficiency and remediation management and certification questionnaires. Powered by the Archer SmartSuite Framework, Archer SOX Compliance Management allows you to meet all requirements of sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in an access-controlled environment with real-time status and results dashboards.

Through Archer Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Management, you can:

• Import your existing COSO framework, control activities and process documentation for reuse in future assessment periods.
• Configure data elements and modify the solution workflow to manage your company’s specific SOX compliance processes without custom code or additional development.
• Automate compliance processes, including quarterly certifications and annual risk assessments.
• Inform process owners and testers of their tasks via rules-driven email notifications and a “My Tasks” list on role-specific home pages.
• Generate deficiency records automatically, and relate deficiencies to financial statement accounts and COSO assertions.
• Control information entitlements at the business unit and role levels.
• Reference a consolidated, real-time picture of compliance efforts and remediation processes.
• Gain access to information via a simple ad-hoc reporting interface, or deliver status and alert-type reports to users via email.

Features and Benefits

Read the full features and benefits to learn how the Archer Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Management solution can help you automate your governance initiatives, assess deficiencies and manage remediation.