This tool offers vendor assessment report questions to consider for enhancing outsourced operations common to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance.

Questions to consider include: Does your company utilize outsourcing for IT operations that may impact applications important to a company’s financial reporting? Are you comfortable that the SOX compliance work around outsourced operations is complete, effective and efficient? Do you utilize a standardized approach to evaluating your outsourced operations for SOX compliance purposes? Are you getting what you need from your outsourcer with respect to a complete and focused vendor assessment to meet your compliance needs?