SOX - Product Implementation Course
Course Overview:
The MetricStream SOX Compliance product allows you to resolve Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance challenges by designing, assessing, and improving the internal controls. The product monitors compliance processes in detail and provides evidence to auditors on the internal control testing results. It also provides control and visibility into compliance issues, statuses, and plans. Using the SOX, Executive Management can review and certify the risk and control assessments according to SOX Act Section 302 requirements.
Level |
Advanced |
Content |
4.5 Hours |
Practice |
4 Hours |
Q&A with MSU |
2 Hours |
Pre-Requisites |
Familiarity with SOX concepts |
Certification Awarded* |
MetricStream Certified SOX Product Implementation Associate |
Learning Objectives:
The training is focused on making trainees understand the features, process, workflows, and functionalities of the SOX Product. At the end of the training, practice and certification, trainees will have knowledge on how to implement and perform basic configurations on the SOX product which includes knowledge on:
§ Product Functionality & Use Case Workflow Usage
· Understand how to navigate the app
· Create and/or upload SOX compliance content
· Create and approve Library Content
· Create, approve and manage compliance plans
· Execute compliance assessments
· Create, approve and manage Risk Assessment plans
· Execute risk assessments
· Create, approve and manage surveys & certifications
· Respond to surveys & certifications
· Log, approve, manage, monitor and close issues
· Administer and manage the SOX app
§ Product Functionality & Use Case Workflow Usage
· Configuration Workbooks
· Updating SOX LOVs
· Updating SOX Data Tables
· SOX Configuration Parameters
§ Product/Use Case Setup
· Perform SOX Setup
· Perform Risk Assessment Setup
· Import Data
Practice & Facetime with Instructor:
Once you start the course, please reach out to MSU at [email protected] to get a practice instance allocated. Upon completion of course content and sufficient practice, reach out to your MSU instructor for your 2 hr Q&A session to clarify and address any open questions.
Certification (Optional):
To be certified, you need to score a minimum of 75% on both the objective and practical assessment. You are allowed a maximum of 2 attempts to pass the certification tests. Please reach out to the instructor once you are ready for assessment. The maximum duration allowed for appearing for assessment is 2 weeks from the course assignment date.
Course content
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Lesson Overview and Navigation
MetricStream SOX Compliance Management enables enterprises to effectively address SOX compliance challenges, and reduce the time and costs involved in managing compliance. The product supports the p...
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Lesson Libraries
The GRC Foundation is a comprehensive set of libraries and visualizations that provides the business users the capabilities to model their specific enterprise libraries requirements.
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Lesson Self-Assessment and Testing
Testing or Compliance Testing determines the extent to which the staff follow prescribed policies and procedures in actual practice. It compares procedures as executed against required or expected ...
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Lesson Risk Assessments
The Risk Assessments module enables you to identify, assess, quantify, monitor, and manage enterprise risks in an integrated manner.
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Lesson Certifications
Use the Certifications module to conduct one-time or periodic certifications and sub-certifications to check if the organization pays particular attention to an area that is perceived as being wea...
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Lesson Issues
The Issues module helps in issue reporting, loss event tracking, task management, and status reporting. It supports the identification and evaluation of issues as well as case investigation and tra...
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Lesson SOX: Product Setup
MetricStream components can be tailored to specific requirements of an organization in different ways. This unit covers the most common requirements and functions performed by an 'Apps Administrato...
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Lesson SOX Product Configuration
This unit covers configuration topics enabling you to populate configuration workbooks, updating LOVs and Data Table on forms and defining workflow parameters
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Lesson SOX Product Administration
This unit will enable you to provision, deactivate and map users to various roles in the SOX app.
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Lesson SOX: Enhancements
Recent enhancements in SOX
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Lesson SOX: Use Cases
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Lesson SOX Practice
Please reach out to your trainer for credentials to the practice instance before starting this unit.
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Lesson Assessment & Certification
Thank you for completing the SOX Course. Kindly reach out to your instructor at [email protected] for access to the following certification assessments: