SOX Compliance Made Simple® offers a compelling ROI based on the following features:

• Usability: The use of common Microsoft® applications such as Word and Excel ensure that users will be familiar with the tools and can quickly focus on entering data and completing their project. In addition, the integrated nature of the Risk Assessment, process control matrices, and supplemental documentation allow for an accelerated interview process, facilitating rapid document completion that is ready to hand off to external audit staff.
• Best-Practice Approach: Vibato® has developed a set of best-practice controls based on implementations across many industries, company sizes, and audit firms (including all Big 4 firms). This optimized approach has consistently led to clean audit opinions, at a significantly reduced cost and effort on the part of both clients and their audit teams. This proven approach reduces the compliance effort and risk associated with any SOX 404 compliance implementation, and takes a methodical, rational approach to achieving a clean audit opinion. In many cases, existing internal control counts have been reduced as well.
• Implementation Speed: An interview-style facilitation method allows the capture of all existing process information with input directly into the tools provided in the span of just one meeting. In as little as a few days, a company can have an accurate and comprehensive picture of all areas of risk, identify any controls they need and any gaps, and already have the documentation on-hand to satisfy any outstanding deliverables. This is in contrast to other approaches where the entire implementation is started from scratch - leading to excessive hours of development time and analysis that are already provided as part of the SOX Compliance Made Simple® approach.
• Fixed Pricing: The modular approach of SOX Compliance Made Simple® allows clients to select only the processes they need to minimize cost and complexity. Each process includes the consulting time necessary for implementation and compilation of the supplemental documentation. By purchasing only what is needed, clients can scale the cost as they grow.
• Control: When the client drives the implementation project from start to finish, there is a high probability of success, especially on accelerated timeframes with limited time for testing and remediation efforts. It is critical to properly scope the project with a comprehensive, best-practice Risk Assessment and mange expectations accordingly.
• Expertise: Vibato® specializes in rapid SOX 404 implementations. We know the process, understand the auditor's perspective (having been former auditors who performed SOX work), and know how to communicate and negotiate in the best interests of our clients.