Sarbanes-Oxley for Nonprofit Boards (eBook)

PEGGY M. JACKSON, DPA, CPCU, is a consultant and nationally recognized lecturer in risk management, business continuity planning, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. She is a principal with Adjunct LLC and a founding partner of the Fogarty, Jackson & Associates Consulting Group in San Francisco, California. Dr. Jackson has coauthored several books published by Wiley, including Managing Risk in Nonprofit Organizations, Sarbanes-Oxley for Nonprofits, and Sarbanes-Oxley and Nonprofit Management: Skills, Techniques, Methods. She divides her time and consulting practice between her homes in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Washington DC metro area.

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

About the Author.

Chapter 1. History and Legislative Background of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and State Nonprofit Accountability
Legislation.

Chapter 2. Moving Nonprofit Governance into the Twenty-First
Century.

Chapter 3. Leveraging Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements and Best
Practices to Move our Board to a Higher Level of Performance.

Chapter 4. SOX as a Cure for the "Leave Your Brains at the Door"
Syndrome.

Chapter 5. Moving the Board Forward: Intervention
Techniques.

Chapter 6. Start at the Beginning.

Chapter 7. Establishing a Platinum Standard for Governance.

Chapter 8. SOX and the really Small Nonprofit Board.

Appendix A. Letter from Senator Grassley to the Acting Chair of
the American University Board of Trustees.

Appendix B. Whistleblower Protection Policy.

Appendix C. Risk Management Plan and Business Continuity
Plan.

Appendix D. Technology Policy.

Appendix E. Review of Internal Controls Report and
Recommendations.

Appendix F. Board of Directors-Governance Profile and
Performance Expectations.

Appendix G. Conflict-of-Interest Policy.

Appendix H. Code of Ethics for Board and Senior Management.

Appendix I. Bibliography.

Index.