ADVISORY/Win the Financial Reporting World Series! Microsoft LiveMeeting Seminar on SOX Reporting in a Microsoft Environment Dec. 1, 9 AM PST, 12 PM EST

Business Wire, Nov 30, 2005

The Blue Sage Group--

To Register: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=47857&cbClass=7850& signupkey=2659 (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste it into your Internet browser's URL address field. You may also need to remove an extra space in the URL if one exists.)

What:

You're invited to a complimentary seminar, covering business topics from leaders in today's leading companies--delivered via web conferencing from Microsoft Office Live Meeting. All you need is a web browser and a phone. I hope you will join us! - Diane Wolff, President, The Blue Sage Group

When:

December 1, 2005

9:00AM - 10:00AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

12:00PM - 1:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Who:

Speaker: Diane Wolff, President, The Blue Sage Group

Seminar Overview: Learn the secrets behind achieving and sustaining a SOX victory.

How:

The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, a set of regulations that were suppose to cure corporate fraud and restore shareholder confidence and help the market regain some of the massive losses after the bubble burst. It has been 3 years and no-one seems to be winning. Like major league baseball teams striving for success, companies keep pouring money into projects. And like many teams the investment does not always lead to a World Series Championship. However, corporations don't have the luxury of waiting as many years as the White Sox and Red Sox to become champions. Weather you are a first year filer or a veteran now is the time to take action to ensure you are a winning team every year. Just like base ball it is never too late to turn a loosing team into a winner. Join us to learn how you can transform your current program into an efficient and effective winning solution to SOX compliance. We will share do it yourself actions that will help you to identify what to cut and what to keep in order to achieve victory. In this seminar you will learn:

--How to build a winning team

--How to reduce costs and resources

--How to choose the right tools

--How to get a return on your SOX investment

About Diane Wolff

Diane Wolff is the Founder and President of The Blue Sage Group (www.thebluesagegroup.com). Wolff is a senior financial executive with a proven track record of increasing profitability in Fortune 1000 companies by creating the tools and processes that allow senior management to quickly gage the financial impact of operational initiatives and actions. In her career, Wolff has created infrastructures for small ventures that have enabled them to create and handle explosive growth and she has restructured mature companies to allow them to operate efficiently as streamlined, low cost operations. In 2002 in the wake of the government's implementation of The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, Wolff began to find herself brought into a new realm - a situation where companies were struggling to comply with a newly defined set of compliance rules, many times with runaway budgets. She has applied her financial and business acumen to developing a new set of tools by which companies can efficiently and effectively comply, using a Microsoft Windows platform. In her previous position as Vice President of Finance for Genuity, a leading provider of managed Internet services, Wolff improved gross margins by 100% in a three year period while revenues grew to $750 Million.

To Register: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=47857&cbClass=7850& signupkey=2659 (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste it into your Internet browser's URL address field. You may also need to remove an extra space in the URL if one exists.)