Essential Project Investment Governance and Reporting
Preventing Project Fraud and Ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Published on 30. January 2005
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-932159-26-4 (ISBN)
Description
Official reference material for the Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) Credential Examination!
Many businesses are not properly considering the risks inherent in reporting project investments in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley federal law. This represents a very real threat to these organizations, their senior executives and project managers. This book introduces proactive best processes for ensuring proper financial reporting of project investments and techniques for preventing, detecting, and managing the risks of fraud in projects. The authors provide a roadmap for implementing a project fraud policy that will ensure corporate governance compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
Many businesses are not properly considering the risks inherent in reporting project investments in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley federal law. This represents a very real threat to these organizations, their senior executives and project managers. This book introduces proactive best processes for ensuring proper financial reporting of project investments and techniques for preventing, detecting, and managing the risks of fraud in projects. The authors provide a roadmap for implementing a project fraud policy that will ensure corporate governance compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-932159-26-4 (9781932159264)
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Essential Project Investment Governance and Reporting
Preventing Project Fraud and Ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
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Steven C. Rollins, MBA, PMP, PMOP, is President, CEO and Founder of the ALLPMO Network serving 18 worldwide PMO niche-specific web sites free to the public at www.PMOUSA.com. Steve is a best-selling author and well known national subject matter expert in Enterprise Project Management implementations and improvements. Steve's background includes extensive experience in industries such as Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Human Resources, Information Technology, Insurance and Telecommunications. Steve has been a featured key-note speaker at many project management events speaking to ""Growing the Business, The Value Proposition of Project Managers"" at PMI Chapters and Businesses across the USA, Canada, Europe and Asia. Additionally, Steve is currently the PMI Metrics Specific Interest Group Chair and the Executive Chair of the Mid-America PMO Regional Group that operates as a chapter to the PMI PMO SIG with a membership of more than 700 people serving seven states in the midwest.
Content
NEW CORPORATE GOVERNANCE LANDSCAPEThe New World of Corporate GovernanceEnabling Compliance with Sarbanes-OxleyTHE EMERGENCE OF PROJECT FRAUDProject Failure (and Possibly Fraud) Case StudyProject Fraud Defined and Its Many FacesImpacts and Motives of Project Failures and FraudImpairment of AssetsOVERALL RESPONSES TO PROJECT FRAUDUnderstanding Internal Control and Using It as a Model for ReviewsProject Fraud and Statement of Auditing Standard 99Assessing the Organizational and Project Control EnvironmentComplete Project Fraud Risk AssessmentGeneral Responses to Key Project Error and Fraud Risks with Prevention and Detection ProceduresSpecific Responses to Key Project Fraud Risks with Prevention and Detection ProceduresUtilizing the Audit Function/Program Management Office for Fraud Prevention and Detection While Maximizing Project InvestmentsENABLING THE PMO AND AUDIT FUNCTION TO SUPPORT CORPORATE AND FINANCIAL REPORTING GOVERNANCEDefining the PMO/Internal Audit Value Proposition for Fraud Prevention and DetectionUtilizing PMO Data Store That Supports Fraud Prevention and DetectionImplementing Project Management Policies Through the PMO That Support Fraud Prevention and DetectionCreating a Safety Net for the Project TeamsConnecting Project Investment with Corporate Objectives to Improve Project Fraud ControlDefining Where to StartSearching for Project Fraud within Project InvestmentEssential Project Reporting Processes That Support Fraud DetectionTraining the Organization to Manage Project Fraud Prevention and DetectionUsing Enterprise Project Management Tools for Project Fraud DetectionThe Executive Proposal for Sarbanes-OxleySection 404 Compliance in DetailPMO Roadmap for Implementing Sarbanes-Oxley into Project DeliverySummaryAppendicesIndex