Companies complaining about the cost of complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could be missing an opportunity to reduce those expenses through one of the less-understood elements of a good internal controls framework: monitoring.

Companies complaining about the cost of complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could be missing an opportunity to reduce those expenses through one of the less-understood elements of a good internal controls framework: monitoring.