Audit Committee members are required to proactively probe management, internal auditors and external auditors to gain insight and to make oversight decisions that will hold up, if necessary, in court.

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During that time companies wouldn't have to undergo the Sarbanes-Oxley law's redundant external audit of an internal audit of their business processes which of course comes on top of the internal and external financial audits.

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