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Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, MD
Additional Conference Speakers:
Mike Krzyzewski
Head Basketball Coach of the
Duke University Blue Devils
Accenture
David Davidson
Partner
ACL Services, Ltd.
Harald Will
President & CEO
AIG
Anders Land
Chief Internal
Control Officer
AMR Research, Inc.
John Hagerty
Vice President Research
Bob Laux
Director of Technical
Accounting & Reporting
Microsoft Corporation
The Association for
Information & Image
Management (AIIM)
John Mancini
President
BasWare, Inc.
David Furth
General Manager
CODA Financials
Kevin Roberts
Vice President
Business Solutions
SPONSORS
Harvey Pitt
Founder & CEO
Kalorama Partners
Select exhibiting COMPANIES
Richard Steinberg
Founder & Principal
Steinberg Governance Advisors
media PARTNERS
Deloitte Consulting
Lee Dittmar
Principal & Leader
Enterprise Governance
Fannie Mae
Mary Doyle
Senior Vice President
Financial Systems & Controls
Maryland Association
of CPAs
Tom Hood, CPA
CEO
Prudential Equity Group, Inc.
Stephen Buell
Director of Global Equity
Research
Deloitte & Touche LLP
James Johnson
Partner
General Electric Company
Mark Slicer
Executive Financial Advisor &
Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Leader
Conference Chairman
Maverick Capital
Christy Wyskiel
Managing Director
Stout, Causey & Horning
Debbie Schleicher
Partner
Movaris
Eric Keller
President & CEO
TaxStream
Kevin Brady
President & CEO
Nextel International
Juan Giordano
Vice President
Finance Operations
TimeWarner, Inc.
Michael Hultberg
Executive Director
Herbert Wong
Senior Manager
Dewey Ballantine LLP
Morton Pierce
Partner
The Dow Chemical Company
Ron Edmonds
Global Accounting Director
Ecora Software
Alex Bakman
Founder & CEO
Ernst & Young
Andrea Schmidt
Transaction Advisory Services
E*Trade Financial
Daniel Nelson
Vice President Corporate Tax
The Home Depot, Inc.
Chuck Pfister
Vice President
Internal Audit
Hyperion
Mike Malwitz
Senior Product
Marketing Manager
Integral Capital Partners
Chip Morris
Managing Director
JH Cohn
Glenn Davis
Partner, Corporate
Goverance Services
KPMG
Steven Rainey
Partner
OpenPages
Michael Duffy
President & CEO
Oversight Systems
Patrick Taylor
CEO
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Sean Ballington
Regional Systems &
Process Assurance Leader
T. Rowe Price
Brian Berghuis
Portfolio Manager
Mid Cap Growth Fund
Viacom, Inc.
Neil Frieser
Vice President
Internal Controls
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Mark Gilbert
Vice President & General Manager
The Sarbanes-Oxley
Conference & Exposition
September 25-27, 2005
Compliance Builds Trust.
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associated with the Act’s compliance and
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• Chief Executive Officers
• Chief Financial Officers
• Chief Operating Officers
• Chief Technology Officers
• Chief Accounting Officers
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• Corporate Legal Counsel & Attorneys
• Controllers & Assistant Controllers
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• Treasurers
• Internal Audit Executives
• Tax Executives
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This year’s conference keynote speakers:
Cynthia Cooper, WorldCom Whistleblower
What can we learn from WorldCom and other corporate scandals? Ms. Cooper will share her and her team’s experience
in uncovering the largest fraud in corporate history. She will discuss the importance of ethical decision making and the
challenges that each of us face.
Ms. Cooper is a Public Accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified Fraud Examiner. But you might know Cynthia Cooper better as the
“WorldCom Whistleblower” – the ethics-driven professional who spoke out and helped uncover the largest corporate fraud in history.
James DeLoach, Managing Director, Protiviti
Mr. DeLoach will discuss practical steps companies can take in year two given the remaining time available and the
longer term strategies available for year three and beyond, putting in place the organization structure for facilitating
ongoing compliance.
Mr. DeLoach is Protiviti’s leader in developing the firm’s market offerings in the governance services space (including SOA compliance) and in
enterprise-wide risk management. He chairs Protiviti’s SOA PMO Task Force, which provides oversight to the quality, consistency and growth of the
firm’s initiatives to serve clients and go-to-market with respect to SOA offerings across its operations. He is co-author of Managing Business Risk
published by The Economist Intelligence Unit.
Mike Krzysewski, Head Basketball Coach of the Duke University Blue Devils
Coach K understands how to motivate athletes – and organizations, individuals and audiences. There’s a proven connection
between effective teamwork, productivity and profitability. Learn how to build more powerful teams “The Coach K Way.”
The most active coach in NCAA tournament play, Mike Krzysewski (Coach K to college basketball fans) knows plenty about making his numbers. He’s led
Duke to 19 NCAA tournaments, 10 Final Fours and 3 National Championships.
Bob Laux, Director of Technical Accounting & Reporting, Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Laux will introduce the new Enhanced Business Reporting (EBR) Consortium. The members of this group will be
working to develop a voluntary, internationally recognized framework for best practices in the reporting of business
information that will enable management, boards of directors, investors and other stakeholders to better understand
plans and performance in key areas such as corporate strategy, market growth, product innovation, employee
turnover, customer loyalty and demographic changes. EBR will facilitate a richer understanding and assessment of the
opportunities and risks that reflect the complexities of modern business, improving the quality and transparency of
information used for decision-making.
Mr. Laux is responsible for Microsoft’s technical accounting, including interacting with and responding to accounting standard setters on numerous
issues. Technical accounting responsibilities include responding to GAAP questions and issues within Microsoft. He is also responsible for Microsoft’s
comment letters on new accounting pronouncements and representing Microsoft at standard setters’ public roundtables.
Harvey Pitt, Founder & CEO, Kalorama Partners
Former SEC Chairman, Harvey Pitt, will discuss the current state of corporate directorship, the changing liability
landscape, and how independent directors can be constructively proactive.
During his tenure as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Pitt was responsible for overseeing the SEC’s response to the
9/11 terrorist attacks, creating the SEC’s real-time enforcement program and leading the Commission’s initial response to the corporate and accounting
crises generated by the excesses of the 1990s.
Richard Steinberg, Founder & Principal, Steinberg Governance Advisors, Inc.
Participants will learn how leading companies are developing solutions not only to sustain 404 compliance economically,
but also to leverage those efforts to gain real business benefit.
Nationally recognized for his risk management, corporate governance, and internal control expertise, Mr. Steinberg is a sought-after advisor to
corporations, institutional investors, and federal governmental bodies. Before founding the firm that bears his name, Mr. Steinberg served as a Senior
Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
September 25-27, 2005
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
Baltimore, MD
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Schedule At-A-Glance
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
12:00 PM - 4:30 PMPre-Game Luncheon Followed by Baltimore Orioles vs. Boston Red Sox at 1:35 PM Sponsored by
1:00 PM - 6:00 PMRegistration
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome Reception: Exhibit Preview
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
7:00 AM - 4:00 PMExhibit Hall Open
7:00 AM - 9:00 AMRegistration
7:00 AM - 8:15 AM Breakfast
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcoming Address
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Better Markets Through Better Information
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Worldcom: What Went Wrong & Corporate Governance Lessons Learned
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Refreshment Break
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM What Have We Learned & Where Do We Go?
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Networking Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Enterprise Risk Management – Compliance & Bottom-Line Benefit
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 • Sustaining Compliance through Tax Technology
Session 2 • Technical Accounting Update
Session 3 • SOX for Non-Accelerated Filers
Session 4 • Electronic Communication Policies & Procedures in the Financial Services Industry
Session 5 • Linking SOX Compliance to Business Improvement
Session 6 • IT Control Assessment & Sustaining Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Sarbanes-Oxley from the Investor Perspective
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Refreshment Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Dealing With Difficult Times & Difficult People
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Sports Extravaganza at the ESPN Zone (All Delegates Welcome)
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Conference & Exposition
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
7:00 AM - 4:00 PMExhibit Hall Open
7:00 AM - 8:15 AM Breakfast
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Conference Remarks
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Victory Through Teamwork & Leadership
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
AMR Research SOX Roundtable
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMRefreshment Break
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Dealing with Changes in the Liability Landscape for Corporate Directors
12:30 PM - 1:30 PMNetworking Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
SOX Compliance Years Two & Three
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7 • Tax Function Resourcing in a SOX World
Session 8 • EBR Roundtable
Session 9 • After Sarbanes-Oxley: Finance is More Than Compliance
Session 10 • Sarbox and the Purchase to Pay Process
Session 11 • Simply Comply — Making SOX Stick
2:30 PM - 3:30 AM
Global Compliance — Dealing with SOX Challenges
3:30 PM - 4:0O PMRefreshment Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Impact of SOX on Merger & Acquisition Activity
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Closing Remarks
*Conference sessions subject to change
Sports Extravaganza at the ESPN Zone
MONDAY 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Bring your competitive spirit to the ESPN Zone! Forget about the boardroom,
the meetings, and corporate challenges for the evening. Get casual and get
to the ESPN Zone for this evening of fun, activity, food and refreshments.
Challenge your peers and colleagues to a game of baseball, football, hockey
or basketball at the Major “Proprietary” Attractions:
Welcome Reception
BASEBALL TONIGHT, NFL COUNTDOWN, NHL 2NIGHT, NBA 2NIGHT
SUNDAY 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The ESPN Sports Arena features 10,000 square feet of awesome interactive
sports games and attractions. Featuring 100 competitive games with over
150 game stations.
Join us in the exhibit hall Sunday for a Welcome Reception for conference
delegates. The Welcome Reception is the perfect opportunity for delegates to
meet vendors while getting a
sneak peek at the latest SOX
services and products available
today as you enjoy refreshments
and hors d’oeuvres.
September 25-27, 2005
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
Baltimore, MD
This event provides a great
opportunity to meet other
colleagues, potential clients,
customers and sports
celebrities in a relaxed,
social atmosphere.
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Session Descriptions
Monday
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Welcoming Address
Session 2
Technical Accounting Update
Panel Discussion
Partner
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Moderator: Ron Edmonds
Mark Slicer
Executive Financial Advisor &
Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Leader
General Electric Company
Conference Chairman
Mr. Slicer will set the tone for the
conference by providing a preview of
the Conference Agenda, as well as
presenting his expert overview of current
SOX Compliance considerations, what
they mean and how you might use this
conference to improve your companies’
management of SOX related issues.
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Better Markets Through Better
Reporting
Bob Laux
Director of Technical
Accounting & Reporting
Microsoft Corporation
This session will
introduce the new Enhanced Business
Reporting (EBR) Consortium. The
members of this group will be working
to develop a voluntary, internationally
recognized framework for best practices
in the reporting of business information
that will enable management, boards
of directors, investors and other
stakeholders to better understand plans
and performance in key areas such
as corporate strategy, market growth,
product innovation, employee turnover,
customer loyalty and demographic
changes. EBR will facilitate a richer
understanding and assessment of the
opportunities and risks that reflect
the complexities of modern business,
improving the quality and transparency of
information used for decision-making.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Worldcom: What Went Wrong &
Corporate Governance Lessons
Learned
Cynthia Cooper
WorldCom
Whistleblower
What can we learn from
WorldCom and other
corporate scandals? Ms. Cooper will
share her and her team’s experience in
uncovering the largest fraud in corporate
history. She will discuss the importance
of ethical decision making and the
challenges that each of us face in
carrying out our individual responsibilities
in this era of increased focus on
corporate integrity.
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
What Have We Learned &
Where Do We Go?
Global Accounting Director
The Dow Chemical Company
Sean Ballington
Regional Systems & Process
Assurance Leader
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Neil Frieser
Vice President Internal Controls
Viacom, Inc.
Michael Hultberg
Executive Director
TimeWarner, Inc.
This esteemed panel of experts will
provide participants with their views
on their organizations successes and
challenges during year one compliance
and strategies for year two and beyond.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Enterprise Risk Management
– Compliance and BottomLine Benefit
Richard Steinberg
Founder & Principal
Steinberg Governance
Advisors
Participants will learn how leading
companies are developing solutions
not only to sustain 404 compliance
economically, but also to leverage those
efforts to gain real business benefit.
Concurrent Sessions
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Session 1
Sustaining Compliance through
Tax Technology
David Davidson
Partner
Accenture
Debbie Schleicher
Partner
Stout, Causey & Horning
Tax process errors represent one of the
largest categories of reported material
weaknesses. Mr. Davidson and Ms.
Schleicher will provide you with examples
of how companies utilize tax technology
to sustain controls, address compliance
requirements, increase efficiency and
gain more accurate and complete data
for use in tax processes.
James Johnson
Herbert Wong
Senior Manager
Deloitte & Touche LLP
This session will provide participants
an update on FASB projects and recent
accounting developments.
Session 3
SOX for Non-Accelerated Filers
Glenn Davis
JH Cohn
Partner, Corporate Governance
Services
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002 (“Act”) has created a potentially
costly and burdensome obligation on
smaller companies. This session will help
you get compliant and remain compliant,
without breaking the bank or tying up all
your scarce resources.
Session 4
Electronic Communication
Policies & Procedures in the
Financial Services Industry
John Mancini
President
The Association for Information &
Image Management (AIIM)
Join Mr. Mancini as he shares the
troubling gaps revealed in an industry
study about how organizations used and
managed their electronic communication
tools and learn how risk management
issues and compliance failures can
be minimized.
Session 5
Linking SOX Compliance to
Business Improvement
Patrick Taylor
CEO
Oversight Systems
The huge costs to comply with SarbanesOxley don’t have to be sunk costs.
Forward-thinking companies can achieve
a return on their compliance investment
by first automating manual compliance
processes to reduce costs and then
using SOX as a lever to improve business
processes.
Session 6
IT Control Assessment &
Sustaining Sarbanes-Oxley
Compliance
Alex Bakman
Founder & CEO
Ecora Software
Learn practical advice on implementing
best practices for IT, evaluating
materiality and control relevance,
knowing how much control is enough
and exploring the need to integrate
multiple processes, change systems and
asset information.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Sarbanes-Oxley from the
Investor Perspective
Moderator: Chip Morris
Managing Director
Integral Capital Partners
Brian Berghuis
Portfolio Manager
Mid Cap Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price
Stephen Buell
Director of Global Equity Research
Prudential Equity Group, Inc.
Christy Wyskiel
Managing Director
Maverick Capital
How can SOX compliance make your
company a more appealing investment?
Hear from this panel of investment
experts on how significant deficiency and
material weakness disclosures impact
their investment decisions.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Dealing With Difficult Times
& Difficult People
Ron Shapiro
Renowned Attorney
Sports Agent & Author
Mr. Shapiro, an expert on the
management and negotiations for star
athletes and their prospective teams,
will provide you with his insight into this
unique dynamic and how his experiences
can be applied in your corporate
environment.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Conference & Exposition
Tuesday
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Victory Through Teamwork &
Leadership
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
SOX Compliance Years
Two & Three
James DeLoach
Managing Director
Protiviti
Mike Krzyzewski
Head Basketball Coach
of the Duke University
Blue Devils
Arguably, the most respected and
successful coach in any sport, at any
level, Coach K will treat you to his
thoughts on success, dedication and
teamwork and how they apply to your
personal, as well as professional life.
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
AMR Research SOX Roundtable
Moderator: John Hagerty
Vice President Research
AMR Research, Inc.
Mr. DeLoach will discuss
practical steps companies can take
in year two (given the remaining time
available) and the longer term strategies
available for year three and beyond,
putting in place the organization structure
for facilitating ongoing compliance.
Concurrent Sessions
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Session 7
Tax Function Resourcing in a
SOX World
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Kevin Brady
Lee Dittmar
President & CEO
TaxStream
Principal & Leader, Enterprise
Governance Practice
Deloitte Consulting
Michael Duffy
President & CEO
OpenPages
Senior Vice President
Financial Systems & Controls
Fannie Mae
Mark Gilbert
Daniel Nelson
Vice President & General Manager
Vignette
Vice President Corporate Tax
E*Trade Financial
Mike Malwitz
Steven Rainey
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Hyperion
Partner
KPMG
Harald Will
Learn about the leading practices in areas
such as tax department organization and
reporting lines, use of service providers
versus in-house resources, document
and knowledge management and use of
technology and software. Also learn how
your tax department resources compare
with other companies and what control
activities are being used to address taxspecific risk management matters.
With spending on SOX compliance
technology rising from 19% in 2004
to 28% in 2005, learn how to turn this
expense into a real opportunity for
improvement from leading technology
executives representing the following
areas: analytics, business intelligence,
compliance management, consulting
and infrastructure.
Founder & CEO
Kalorama Partners
Former SEC Chairman,
Harvey Pitt, will discuss the current state
of corporate directorship, the changing
liability landscape, and how independent
directors can be constructively proactive.
September 25-27, 2005
Director of Technical
Accounting & Reporting
Microsoft Corporation
This session will be an interactive
discussion around the work of the
new Enhanced Business Reporting
(EBR) Consortium. This Consortium is
developing a voluntary, internationally
recognized framework for the disclosure
of industry-specific value drivers and
key performance indicators, as well as
information about strategies and plans,
opportunities, risks, and the quality,
sustainability and variability of cash flows
and earnings. Participants in this session
will have the opportunity to ask questions
and make suggestions on the approach
and scope of the EBR Consortium.
President & CEO
Movaris
Come hear Mike Krzyzewski
(Coach K), Hall of Fame
Head Basketball Coach
of the Duke University
Blue Devils speak about
the dynamics of effective
leadership and teamwork.
Tuesday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
Bob Laux
Eric Keller
Build Your Team
The Coach K Way
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Dealing with Changes in
the Liability Landscape for
Corporate Directors
Harvey Pitt
CEO
Maryland Association of CPAs
Session 9
After Sarbanes-Oxley: Finance is
More Than Compliance
Mary Doyle
President & CEO
ACL Services, Ltd.
Session 8
EBR Roundtable
Tom Hood, CPA
Many companies completing their
second year of Sarbanes-Oxley are
looking beyond mere SOX compliance.
Learn from first-hand experience how
today’s manual financial processes inhibit
corporate performance. Mr. Keller will
reveal how Financial Control Management
dramatically improves the efficiency,
effectiveness and transparency of finance
operations, reduces the time and cost of
compliance efforts and creates more time
for finance executives to pursue strategic
opportunities.
Session 10
Sarbox & the Purchase to
Pay Process
David Furth
General Manager
BasWare, Inc.
This session will highlight the key
requirements in Sarbox that relate to
the purchase to pay process including:
accurate estimates of accruals,
recognition of newly purchased assets,
control over approval hierarchies,
knowledge of unrecorded liabilities, and
accurate financial reporting. Specific
examples will be provided as well as
a framework that can be used to drive
toward Sarbox compliance in this critical,
often overlooked, portion of
your business.
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Session 11
Simply Comply — Making
SOX Stick
Kevin Roberts
Vice President Business Solutions
CODA Financials
This session is designed to demonstrate
the cost-effective automation of financials
and business processes that can be
implemented in a matter of a few weeks
utilizing desktop tools that virtually
every organization employs resulting in
both better compliance and savings of
resources and dollars.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Global Compliance — Dealing
with SOX Challenges
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Mark Slicer
Executive Financial Advisor &
Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Leader
General Electric Company
Juan Giordano
Vice President Finance Operations
Nextel International
Anders Land
Chief Internal Control Officer
AIG
Chuck Pfister
Vice President Internal Audit
The Home Depot, Inc.
Hear senior executives of global
organizations discuss the challenges of
implementing SOX on multiple continents
and how they overcame the challenges
of dealing with various financial systems,
local customs, language barriers, foreign
currency translation, etc.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Impact of SOX on Merger &
Acquisition Activity
Morton Pierce
Partner
Dewey Ballantine, LLP
Andrea Schmidt
Ernst & Young
Transaction Advisory Services
This session will examine the impact of
SOX on the timing of deal closings, letters
of intent and purchase agreements, as well
as the expanded due diligence efforts now
required in the internal control area and the
new importance of detailed post merger
internal control integration planning. The
panel will also discuss added costs during
the merger evaluation process and post
merger integration period and the potential
impact of such costs on the valuation of
acquisition targets.
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