The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 concerns itself with the internal controls and accuracy of the financial statements of public companies.  Almost all of Hart’s retail clients are public companies and use one of the Big 4 public accounting firms - Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, or Price Waterhouse Coopers.  All of these firms have given their official approval for the use of Hart’s scanning system to take self-scanned physical inventories.

Stated simply, Sarbanes-Oxley requires ACCURACY in the valuation of a retailer’s inventory - and retailers that utilize the Hart Self-Inventory System can achieve more accurate results than other methods because:

a) the advanced internal control and audit routines in our system are defined and customized for each client to address a variety of unique business concerns, and

b) these controls and procedures are enforced by the software – they are not dependent upon adherence to written or verbal instructions, and

c) Hart’s On-Demand™ Internet Report package provides your managers with the ability to monitor the accuracy and procedures of your stores in real-time, from wherever they are, while the inventory is still in progress… and therefore, they can affect the accuracy of the inventory count.