RIA and Parson Consulting Team in SOX 404 Pact

Tax information products provider RIA has teamed with Chicago-based financial management concern Parson Consulting in a licensing pact where users of RIA's Checkpoint research service will be given access to Parson's ProAct Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance framework. Terms were not disclosed. Under the licensing agreement, Checkpoint users can navigate Parson's ProAct, which includes various overviews of the 404 compliance process with links to related source materials on Checkpoint such as the COSO framework and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.