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FACTA "Red Flag Rules" Compliance
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act of 2003 (FACTA) was issued by Congress and signed into law to help consumers fight the growing crime of identity theft. Section 114 of FACTA, aka the "Red Flag" provision, requires compliance of identity theft program guidelines and regulations issued by the FTC and several federal banking agencies. Read more about FACTA Red Flag Rules Compliance and learn how you are affected.

Utilities Compliance
Utility and energy companies take on an uniquely complex risk and compliance environment. Our risk management team can help tackle the internal audit issues specific to the utilities industry.

  • Risk Management

    It seems we've all become familiar with corporate scandals, Sarbanes-Oxley rules, shareholder suits, and executive misconduct. That bad behavior spawned a laundry list of new internal audit requirements and safeguarding measures. Don't comply with the new rules and your business is in serious jeopardy. The Perkins & Co team provides internal audit services with substantial knowledge, industry experience, and readily available local resources at reasonable rates. Business controls services such as assessing internal controls, performing financial risk assessments, and information technology auditing can reduce business risk exposures and contribute to your organization's performance. We can help you build an internal control structure that improves your bottom line and provides assurance to your stakeholders.

    Our services include:

      • IT Assurance


      Issues of information integrity, confidentiality and availability are paramount considering increasingly complex systems and the growing use of third-party service providers and software "in the cloud." SAS 70, AICPA Trust Services (SysTrust) or agreed-upon procedures are often a requirement of doing business as an information service provider. Find out what the differences are between the three procedures and which is best for you.

    • SAS 70
    • SysTrust
    • IT Agreed Upon Procedures

      IT Consulting

    • IT Effectiveness Assessments
    • Disaster Recovery Planning
    • Policy, Procedure and Standard Development

      Internal Audit & SOX

    • SOX "Right Size"
    • Application Security Review
    • Pre & Post Implementation Review
    • Integrated Audits
    • General IT Audits
    • Data Integrity Audit

  • The Team

    Peter Kwong, Shareholder
    Jared Holum, Shareholder
    Sue Markovitz, Manager

  • Case Study

    Public Company, Electronic Controls
    We teamed with this client in 2007 after they had started and stopped their Sarbanes Oxley project with a previous service provider. Perkins & Co worked closely with the client's management team to develop a reasonable and practical approach by reformatting their existing SOX documentation into a sustainable control framework that met compliance standards within required deadlines.

  • Affiliations

    Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
    Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)