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Is Your Company at Risk for Financial Restatements?: Financial restatements strain resources and unnerve shareholders. It’s a wild, post-Sarbox world. Here’s how smart companies survive. Restate and Main: Is Your Company Vulnerable? Source: CFO Publishing This column from CFO Publishing looks...; Tags: Restatement, Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance, BNET Staff, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbox, SOX, Financial Restatements, Securities, Top 5; Articles 2008-03-11
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: How to Survive (and Win): Thanks to new regulations, Sarbox compliance has become a lot less costly and more efficient. Here’s how to use it to your best advantage. Create a Controls-Friendly Culture From the Top Goal: Lay the...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial accounting, Regulations, Geoffrey James, Section 404, AICPA, audit, auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial, SEC, regulation, compliance, corporate governance, market capitalization, financial system, financial reporting, password, stock, performan; Articles 2008-02-26
Do Presidential Candidates Understand the Knowledge Economy?: Do Presidential Candidates Understand the Knowledge Economy?Flawed PremiseMy prescriptions for increasing American competitiveness is for the government to do nothing. Except:- End all the expensive Wars on Terror, Drugs, Poverty that are costing us not only blood and treasure but also our individual and civil liberties- Stop acting as the world's policeman...; Tags: Vertical industries, Sarbanes-Oxley, knowledge, Sarbox, government, investment; Discussion threads 2008-03-07
Four Reasons to Love Sarbanes-Oxley: Not a fan of Sarbanes Oxley compliance? The regulations are better for your company than you might think. #1: It Bursts the IPO Bubble The dot-com boom and subsequent bust a decade ago was largely the result of...; Tags: Geoffrey James, Sarbanes Oxley, Sarbox, SOX, SEC, Financial, Regulation, Financial Control, Ernst & Young Partner Narain, Financial Accounting, Finance; Articles 2008-02-26
sarbox Has Widespread Impact on Revenue Recognition Policies: One of the primary goals of Sarbanes-Oxley Sarbox is to ensure that companies are reporting accurate revenue numbers. Consequently, revenue recognition policies have been under particular scrutiny. A survey of 400 public and private companies found that more than half (55%) of all public companies, have changed revenue recognition policies...; Tags: Operational accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., revenue recognition, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, survey; White papers 2006-06-02

sarbox's Unseen Costs: From the executive summary: ‘The most significant costs wrought by Sarbanes-Oxley are those not readily seen. The crucial unseen cost is that of innovations foregone or delayed because resources for research and development are being used instead to pay for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.’ The paper examines this issue.; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, CFO Publishing Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, R&D; White papers 2003-11-01

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Ticker shock: a timeline for Syms's delist/relist saga: 12/21/07 Syms announces plan to delist from NYSE (stock trading at approx. $17) and trade on Pink Sheets, citing cost of Sarbox as rationale. 1/14/08 Begins trading on Pink Sheets; stock at approx. $11 1/28/08 Letter to shareholders describes transition...; Articles 2008-04-01
Scenario Systems International, a Global IT Management Firm, to Trade Under the Symbol (PINK SHEETS:SSII).: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Feb 4, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Scenario Systems International, a Global IT management Firm, is now trading under the symbol (PINK SHEETS:SSII). Scenario Systems SSII is a specialist IT Company which assists corporations reduce the cost and risk of owning...; Articles 2008-02-04
Scenario Systems International, a Global IT Management Firm, to Trade Under the Symbol (PINK SHEETS: SSII): Scenario Systems International, a Global IT management Firm, is now trading under the symbol (PINK SHEETS: SSII). Scenario Systems SSII is a specialist IT Company which assists corporations reduce the cost and risk of owning IT hardware and software assets. SSII provides Merger & Acquisition, Process and Information Technology IT...; Articles 2008-02-04
Attempting to answer the $91,000 question: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EVER SINCE COMPANIES began to confront Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the question of how much it actually costs to comply has been hotly debated. While many companies ridiculed the Securities and Exchange Commission's initial estimate of $91,000 as being far too low, the figure...; Articles 2008-02-01
The emergence of convergence: the effort to combine governance, risk, and compliance into a single software platform marches on: THREE YEARS AGO, WHEN managers at SunTrust Banks Inc. began searching for software that might help them cope with new regulatory requirements, they kept their demands to a minimum. Although the financial-services company had just endured a tough first year of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, no one expected software to solve all...; Articles 2008-01-01
Scrapping sarbox: voluntary measures offer efficient and effective protection without hobbling management: Modern CEOs always worry about the state regulation of their corporations. Unfortunately, these regulatory schemes have become more intrusive and less useful in recent years, because our legislators and judges often fail to understand how and why the public company reached its dominant position as a vehicle for large business...; Articles 2008-01-01
Scrapping sarbox: Voluntary measures offer efficient and effective protection without hobbling management. BY RICHARD A. EPSTEIN Modern CEOs always worry about the state regulation of their corporations. Unfortunately, these regulatory schemes have become more intrusive and less useful in recent years, because our legislators and judges often fail to...; Articles 2008-01-01
Scrapping sarbox: voluntary measures offer efficient and effective protection without hobbling management.(REGULATION): Modern CEOs always worry about the state regulation of their corporations. Unfortunately, these regulatory schemes have become more intrusive and less useful in recent years, because our legislators and judges often fail to understand how and why the public company reached its dominant position as a...; Articles 2008-01-01
Accounting deadline looms for small firms: Three years after Sarbanes-Oxley created a slew of new work for accounting firms, accountants are gearing up for another helping of Sarbox assignments. This time, it's small public firms facing a Dec. 15 deadline to be compliant with the managerial aspects of Sarbox, which is designed to...; Articles 2007-11-09
Website of the Month: Fiercesarbox: FierceSaibox (www.fiocesaibox.com) is a member of the FierceMarkets family of websites. FierceSarbox is a free site focusing on Sarbanes-Oxley SOX compliance issues, paid for by SOX-specific advertisements that may be as usefill to certain users as some of the site's free resources. FierceSarbox's home and main pages are organized...; Articles 2007-11-01
Voluntary 'sarbox' Compliance Has Rewards: Each year, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act increasingly affects privately held trucking firms. The intent of the 2002 law was to apply rigorous accounting standards to public companies after the Enron, WorldCom and other accounting scandals. But Sarbanes-Oxley standards rapidly are becoming accounting best practices for all businesses. Some embrace Sarbanes-Oxley standards...; Articles 2007-10-15
Voluntary 'sarbox' Compliance Has Rewards: Each year, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act increasingly affects privately held trucking firms. The intent of the 2002 law was to apply rigorous accounting standards to public companies after the Enron, WorldCom and other accounting scandals. But Sarbanes-Oxley standards rapidly are becoming accounting best practices for all businesses. Some embrace Sarbanes-Oxley...; Articles 2007-10-15
Rewriting the rules: everything you thought you knew about accounting is about to change. Is there any reason to smile?: Now the hard part begins. Five years after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed, its raison d'etre--to improve corporate transparency and thus boost investor confidence-has been realized, at least to a degree. Debates still rage about how much credit the act can claim for Wall Street's (pre-subprime) rebound, and, more fiercely,...; Articles 2007-10-01
One for three: should governance, risk management, and compliance be tackled as one problem, or is this a classic case of scope creep?: THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT has long had a digital doppelganger. Almost from the day it was announced, and certainly since its Section 404 emerged as a major corporate headache, IT companies have hawked products that promise to ease the regulatory burden. Often these have been hastily retooled versions of applications that...; Articles 2007-09-01

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