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Measuring & Improving Performance
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The PDi Sarbanes-Oxley Internal Control Index Survey™
| Introduction |
The PDi SarbOx ICIS™ is a rapidly deployed, secure, online index survey that measures how well your organization is adhering to Sarbanes-Oxley Internal Control requirements, as well as, assessing the overall ethical environment of your organization. The PDi SarbOx ICIS™ enables companies of any size to obtain a comprehensive and detailed assessment of how their internal controls, key compliance directives, risk assessments and communications are working in order to focus resources and change efforts on those areas that require improvement.
| The PDi SarbOx™ Benefits |
The PDi SarbOx ICIS™ benefits your organization, employees, shareholders and customers by providing an assessment of your organization’s ethical environment and internal controls. It has been specifically designed to measure key areas that impact ethics and internal control effectiveness, thus, identifying strengths and pinpointing areas for compliance improvements. Furthermore, the PDi SarbOx ICIS™ offers annual trending to measure your company’s improvement year to year.
| How the PDi SarbOx™ Works |
Questions are presented via a standard web browser utilizing drop-down menus, radio buttons and check boxes. PDi provides onsite presentations that will describe the overall organizational, demographic, departmental and team results while keeping all individual responses 100% anonymous.
| The PDi SarbOx ICIS™ Measures |
Assessing ethical business environments and internal controls requires a multidirectional approach. Scoring a high effectiveness rating in each of the following five PDi SarbOx ICIS™ dimensions assure organizations that they have a relatively strong ethical environment in which applicable laws, regulations and compliance requirements are being respected:
These 5 dimensions and corresponding question sets were developed to measure essential requirements and guidelines of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, SEC and NYC regulations, Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and United States Sentencing Commission.
| Why the PDi SarbOx ICIS |
The PDi SarbOx ICIS™ was developed as a result of a comprehensive assessment of the Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory and compliance requirements through a series of extensive interviews with leading accounting firms, associations, and corporate ethics officers. These interviews, in conjunction with a rigorous review of the related research, articles, documents, and practical application of internal controls, serve as the PDi SarbOx ICIS™ foundation. Our ongoing analysis efforts will establish the statistical research and data base for developing:
National Norm Ratings
Economic Sector Ratings
Industry Ratings
Individual Company Ratings
The partnership, based upon the advanced survey methodology skills, research expertise and practical experience of PDi combined with state of the art survey software is creating a tested, validated and reliable benchmark survey data base. This database has been developed using the following criteria:
Respondents are working professionals.
Respondents represent all levels of the organizational hierarchy.
Respondents represent a mix of genders, races, etc.
The organizations are an equal mix of small, medium and large size firms
The organizations are spread out across the US
The PDi SarbOx ICIS™ is analyzed for face, content and construct validity
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