Session Designed to Help Companies Prepare for the Audit, Plan for the Future MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: During the next few weeks, external auditors will begin procedures for the integrated audit of subsidiaries of Japanese publicly listed companies for the first time. Effective coordination with the parent company, local auditor, and the parent auditor is critical to complete the compliance process successfully. Join Protiviti -- a global business consulting and internal audit firm -- for the seventh webinar in its J-SOX series, "Getting Ready for the First J-SOX Audit and Planning for the Future." Using actual J-SOX and U.S. SOX cases, the webinar will address several practical topics, including: -- The remaining tasks for the initial year -- How to coordinate efforts with external auditors -- Consideration points for J-SOX Year Two -- How to manage the long-term cost of compliance efforts. Nearly 4,000 Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed Japanese companies and their significant subsidiaries and affiliates around the world fall under the J-SOX mandate and are in Year One of J-SOX compliance. Compliance requirements are effective for fiscal years beginning on or after April 1, 2008. WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 12, 11:00 a.m. PST/2:00 p.m. EST WHO: Paul Sachs, Protiviti managing director and co-leader of Protiviti's J-SOX compliance support practice, leads the webinar. He has been advising North American subsidiaries of Japanese companies on compliance with J-SOX since early 2006 and has supported many U.S. companies with their U.S. SOX compliance requirements since 2003. HOW: Register for the complementary webinar by November 11 at http://www.protiviti.com/go/jsoxevents. The presentation will be in English. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051101/SFTU041LOGO) http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051101/SFTU041LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Protiviti CONTACT: Kathy Keller of Protiviti, +1-650-234-6252, Web site: http://www.protiviti.com/ http://www.rhii.com/

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