Debt Compliance Policy Best Practices is a comprehensive policy that describes the objectives, the participants, their responsibilities, and the processes for achieving these debt compliance objectives:

• Why the company has a legal and SOX obligation to review compliance with all of its covenants in all of its agreements
• Identifying and understanding all of the debt covenants
• Integrating the covenants’ restrictions into the company’s operations and planning
• Determining quickly and accurately the company’s quarterly debt compliance
• Identifying and mitigating emerging covenant issues to minimize the risk of future covenant violations
• Proactively managing senior management and lenders about significant potential covenant issues to eliminate surprises and minimize the lender consequences