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Achieving SOX Compliance and Financial Performance: The Lessee's Guide

Get The Results You Need to Satisfy Your Auditors and Your Shareholders -- 20 Best Practices for your Leasing Operations
 

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SUMMARY: Are you ahead of the game in terms of SOX compliance? Consider your leasing operations. Today, for many lessees, the leasing process remains an opaque, complex area of corporate finance that often involves poor lease accounting, decentralized management, broken processes, and incomplete systems. These issues can lead to costly financial mistakes and a variety of control and compliance problems.

Compelled by the compliance requirements of SOX, finance executives of lessees are now focusing on how to manage their leasing operations with the proper rigor and improve their financial performance in the process. SOX legislation raises the bar and the stakes by introducing criminal penalties for executives if the information in financial statements does not fairly represent the financial condition and results of the company. The truth is that finance executives lack the visibility, controls, and resources needed to manage their leasing operations properly, resulting in cost leakage, financial losses, and compliance exposure.

The purpose of this guide is to provide timely, practical know-how and insight to financial executives of lessees to help them:

  • understand the laws and compliance standards related to their leasing operations,
  • get the latest information about SOX’s impact on lease operations, accounting, and reporting
  • identify the problems with their leasing operations typically found in large companies,
  • know what to demand from their companies to fix their operations,
  • apply the best practices, and
  • build a business case for improving compliance and the financial performance of their leasing operations

With best practices in place, finance executives can then focus on their other objectives with the confidence that their leasing operation can and will deliver.

Who should read this guide:

  • CFOs
  • Treasurers
  • Controllers
  • Compliance Officers
  • Purchasing Executives
  • Leasing Managers
  • Leasing Stakeholders

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