Designed to help attorneys, directors, officers, accountants, auditors, and research analysts, "The Sarbanes-Oxley Deskbook" offers you a uniquely clear understanding of these daunting new requirements and the procedures you must implement to ensure full, problem-free compliance. Covering strict CEO/CFO certification standards, expanded prohibitions on non-audit services, new bans on loans to insiders, new attorney up-the-ladder disclosure requirements, and other mandates, the Deskbook offers you:. Clause-by-clause analysis of the SOA and related rules -- with expert commentary on how to proceed in the wake (or absence) of official guidance. Step-by-step direction on how to satisfy all new governance, disclosure, and reporting standards -- with the help of checklists and sample forms and committee charters. Clear warnings about the tougher new civil and criminal penalties for SOA-related violations.