Working Values® Launches the Integrity ToolKit™ an Ethics & Compliance Training Suite for Corporations

Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) Co-sponsors Content

HAWTHORNE, N.Y., (September 4, 2003) -- Working Values^® Ltd. (a SmartPros^® Ltd. Company), a leading developer of integrated values-based corporate responsibility, ethics awareness and compliance learning programs, today announced the launch of the Integrity ToolKit^TM, an Ethics & Compliance Training Suite designed to aid corporations in their quest to meet regulatory standards, including Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Finance content for the Integrity Toolkit is jointly sponsored by Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), the educational affiliate of Financial Executives International (FEI).

"The control environment demands of Sarbanes-Oxley require leaders to build an integrity-based compliance and governance program that taps into the attitudes, awareness and actions of the company's managers" said Working Values President and Founder, David Gebler. "However in this new environment of corporate governance and responsibility, many public companies do not have adequate systems in place to meet these training and communication needs. The challenge is to provide customized solutions within the budgets available to even the smallest public company. The Integrity Toolkit is that solution."

The Integrity ToolKit - A Web-based Suite of Training Modules and Resources:
The Integrity ToolKit is a Web-based suite of resources and training applications that corporations can immediately make available to their staff. At the core of the ToolKit is the Integrity Training Center, a Learning Management System (LMS) featuring interactive training-modules complete with testing.

The Toolkit is designed so companies can quickly develop their own integrated communication and learning program. Content is broken down into categories for Senior Leaders (including Board members), Managers, and Employees. A sample of current course titles includes: Sarbanes-Oxley Overview; Best Practices Modules for Sarbanes-Oxley Implementation; Interactive Standards of Conduct and Affirmation; Integrity in Books and Records; Integrity in the Financial Control Environment; Ensuring Integrity in Financial Reporting; and Ensuring Integrity in Books and Records.

Among other features, the ToolKit includes ethics & compliances related news headlines, relevant case studies, and a corporate message board for posting standards and management communications. (For additional information and to set-up a product demonstration, please visit www.workingvalues.com/toolkit)

Objectives of the Integrity Toolkit are to assist in the successful implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley throughout an entire organization. This includes awareness of new regulations, personalizing how corporate governance and financial disclosures affect the employee, providing CFOs and Executive Management a resource for implementing integrity throughout the organization, and providing tools for managers to create and maintain a proper control environment.

Working Values (www.workingvalues.com) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SmartPros. Based in Hawthorne, N.Y., SmartPros (www.SmartPros.com) is a leader in professional education and interactive training for accounting, finance and engineering professionals currently offers a variety of online and off-line continuing professional education ("CPE"). Existing WorkingValues/SmartPros production capabilities include a fully-staffed web development team, broadcast quality video production and duplication facilities, a hosting architecture to support web-based programs, and a co-brandable, content-rich Learning Management System (LMS).

About Working Values, Ltd.
Working Values, Ltd., a SmartPros company, is one of the world's leading developers of integrated values-based corporate responsibility and ethics awareness and compliance learning programs. Since 1993, Working Values has helped organizations such as JP Morgan Chase, Pharmacia, Coors Brewing Company, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin align workplace behavior with standards, values and ethical principles. For more information visit www.workingvalues.com.

About SmartPros Ltd.
Founded 1981, SmartPros Ltd. is an industry leader in the field of accredited professional education. Its products and services are primarily focused in the accredited professional areas of corporate accounting, financial management, public accounting, governmental and not-for-profit accounting, ethics and compliance, and engineering. SmartPros' customers include over half of Fortune 500 companies, as well as the major firms and associations in each of its professional markets. SmartPros provides education and content publishing and development services in a variety of media including Web, CD-ROM and video. Our subscription libraries feature hundreds of course titles and 1,000+ hours of accredited education. SmartPros' proprietary Professional Education Center (PEC) Learning Management System (LMS) offers enterprise distribution and administration of education content and information. In addition, SmartPros produces a popular news and information portal for accounting and finance professionals that services 300,000+ visitors and 100,000+ subscribers per month. Visit: www.smartpros.com