Certified Sarbanes-Oxley Professional

Certified Sarbanes-Oxley Professional (CSOXP) is a credential awarded by the governance, risk & compliance group (The GRC Group). The CSOXP credential communicates that certified professionals have the knowledge listed below:

• The key tenets of the SOX Act
• The history and impact of the SOX Act
• Industry-accepted frameworks and principles
• The role of audit committees
• Auditor independence
• Conflicts of interest and codes of conduct
• Whistleblower protection and corporate fraud
• White collar criminal penalties
• COSO ERM components (internal environment, objective setting, even identification, risk assessment, risk response, control activities, information and communication, and monitoring)
• Section 404 internal control documentation
• Entity-level and activity-level testing controls, techniques, effectiveness, and documentation
• SOX Section 404 project lifecycle management

Also, the certified professionals must have 1,200 hours of related experience (over the past three years).