Essential Project Investment Governance and Reporting: Preventing Project Fraud And Ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Official reference material for the Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)SM Credential ExaminationMany businesses are not properly considering the risks inherent in reporting project investments in compliance with the new Sarbanes-Oxley federal law. This represents a very real threat to these organizations, their senior executives and project managers. This book introduces proactive best processes for ensuring proper financial reporting of project investments and techniques for preventing, detecting, and managing the risks of fraud in projects. The authors provide a roadmap for implementing a project fraud policy that will ensure corporate governance compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.Key FeaturesProvides risk management processes and tools for controlling corporate objective delivery and preventing fraud in project investmentsIdentifies the key, must-follow accounting and audit standards and includes structured project reporting examples, business cases, assessment tools, and checklistsIllustrates how the Project Management Office and Internal auditors can collaborate to minimize project misstatements and fraud throughout the project life cycle, while also accelerating project deliveryFeatures a project roadmap that you can apply to your organization within a Program/Project Management Office that enables proper fraud control at the project level