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Sarbanes-Oxley law has been a pretty clean sweep
0 Comments Published by megan August 6th, 2007 in Uncategorized, SOX, North America, Accounting rules, Sarbox Tags: adelphia, audited, defrauded investors, prosecutors, public companies, sarbanes oxley act, tyco, worldcom.Investors who got a midsummer haircut last week during the Dow’s 735-point drop from 14,000 probably aren’t singing Happy Birthday for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which is 5 years old today. But maybe they should be.
If you think last week’s sell-off was bad, recall the summer of 2002. Enron had imploded, WorldCom admitted to fabricating billions […]
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Sarbanes-Oxley drives away IPOs
0 Comments Published by megan August 6th, 2007 in News, Section 404, Study, North America, Accounting rules, Sarbox Tags: act compliance, audit fees, burden of compliance, compliance costs, financial control, puplic companies, sarbanes oxley act, Section 404.While Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance costs decreased overall in 2006, the out-of-pocket costs associated with compliance rose from 2005 to 2006, according to a study planned for release on Thursday.
Foley & Lardner’s fifth annual study measuring the financial impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on public companies finds that the cost of audit fees, board compensation, and legal fees […]
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Study: Investors Say Sarbanes-Oxley Got It Right; Wish Mandatory Jail Time for Wrongdoers
3 Comments Published by megan August 6th, 2007 in News, Study, North America, Accounting rules, Sarbox Tags: board members, ceos, corporate boards, corporate officers, finance study, financial disclosures, new survey, sarbanes oxley, senior management.As U.S. regulators and industry recognize Sarbanes-Oxley’s fifth year this July 30, most investors (57 percent) in a new survey by Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management believe the requirements imposed by the law, holding CEOs and senior management personally accountable for the accuracy of their companies’ financial disclosures, are about right, while […]
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- Study: Investors Say Sarbanes-Oxley Got It Right; Wish Mandatory Jail Time for Wrongdoers
- Japan insurer Millea quits Nasdaq, U.S. accounting
- Oxley says reforms’ effects overblown
- House Votes to Give Small Companies More Time on Sarbanes-Oxley
- CFOs and controllers at U.S. subsidiaries of Japanese firms begin implementing the Japanese version of Sarbanes-Oxley.
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- Congress Flexes Its Regulatory Muscles
- SEC commissioners to go before House panel
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