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A pox on Sarbox: the unintended and rotten consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley law: AS a very young teenager on my first unsupervised afternoon in New York City, I promptly lost $10 playing three-card monte. Afterwards, I vowed that I'd never get pulled into this kind of rigged game again. I had learned an important lesson: Ignore what the dealer is saying and keep...; Tags: equity, FINANCE, Government, Investment, investor, IPO, regulation, Regulations, Sarbox, stock, U.S., U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-05-14
Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: SOX Comes of Age: Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: SOX Comes of AgeSabox: Y2K2I have read the various descriptions of the 'new' Sarbox requirements. They basically are an attempt at holding the CEO and CFO accountable for the documents that they sign. Funny, I would have thought that their signature all along carried the...; Tags: Retrospect, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbox; Discussion threads 2008-07-14
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: SOX, Financial Restatements, Sarbox, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, BNET Staff, Restatement, Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance, Securities, Top 5; Articles 2008-03-11
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: government, investment, knowledge, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Sarbox; Discussion threads 2008-03-07
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: Compliance, Sarbox, SOX, Auditor, Audit, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Auditing, Geoffrey James, Financial Accounting, Finance, Crash Course; Articles 2008-02-26

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: Financial Control, Regulation, Financial, SEC, Geoffrey James, Sarbanes Oxley, Sarbox, SOX, Ernst & Young Partner Narain, Financial Accounting, Finance; Articles 2008-02-26
The Sarbox blues: Regarding your CEO Summit analysis on Sarbanes-Oxley (January/February 2005): We have determined that public companies worried that the 109th Congress will revisit and toughen the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are in for some good news and some bad news. The good news is Congress apparently is not going to reopen Sarbanes-Oxley in...; Tags: CEO, FINANCE, GAAP, Government, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbox, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2005-04-01
Sarbanes-Oxley:The US Experience and the UK Reaction.: What lessons can we learn from the US experience of this legislation to date, and to what extent should directors and their insurers fear or welcome recent UK and European attempts to address these issues? We consider the US experience in this article, and the UK and European response...; Tags: CEO, director, FINANCE, financial, Government, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbox, SEC, U.K., Vivendi Universal; Research articles 2004-08-11
Many regulations, one truth: IT is the glue that compliance efforts hold in common.(Special Report: Regulatory Compliance): What do the Sarbanes-Oxley Sarbox Act, and its body of financial regulation, have to do with RoHS, a European Union regulation dealing with substances used in electronic products? The answer is as follows. There are basically two kinds of r ...; Tags: AMR Research, company, compliance, information technology, regulation, regulatory compliance, Sarbox; Research articles 2006-01-01
FrontRange Solutions' HEAT Supports Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance; FrontRange's Partners Help SME Customers Use HEAT to Meet SarbOx Objectives: PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Public companies that must comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 SarbOx, can now tap the HEATR IT Service Management software from FrontRange Solutions, the leader in Service Management and Customer Relationship ManagementCRM solutions for distributed and small to mid-size enterpriseSME. HEAT's capabilities help SMEs meet the...; Tags: FrontRange Solutions Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Sarbox, small and medium enterprise; Research articles 2004-09-21
Save Silicon Valley! Kill Sarbox!: Michael S. Malone is blaming Sarbanes-Oxley rules for killing the venture capital economy. In his column Washington is Killing Silicon Valley registration required, he blames Sarbox for limiting us to a mere six high-tech companies going public this year. He then attacks every other accounting limit that the Valley doesn't...; Tags: Silicon Valley, Sarbox, Michael S. Malone, Malone, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2008-12-24
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: Revenue, Sarbox, Revenue Recognition, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance; 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: CFO Publishing Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbox, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Research & Development, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations; White papers 2003-11-01

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Will Small Biz Get Sarbox Impunity?: The House Financial Services Committee has passed a bill that would exempt just over half of all publicly traded companies from the contentious internal-control provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that requires an auditor opinion. The proposed exemption has a long way to go before smaller companies can drop plans...; Tags: company, SEC; News items 2009-11-04
It's Private Companies' Turn To Dance The Sarbox Shuffle: From the executive summary: ‘The companies that are not publicly traded have watched the Sarbanes-Oxley Acts' Sarbox dominance on the public companies for the past several months. Yet quite a few private companies (especially the quasi-private/quasi-public/ government-chartered companies) have taken aggressive steps in recent months to consider and adopt the...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Association Of Corporate Counsel, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2003-08-01
The Sarbox Ball & Chain: The CEOs and directors of big companies have buckled their shoes for facing Sarbanes-Oxley Act, better known as Sarbox. The act dealing with corporate regulation has established new rules and prompted some boards to do serious house cleaning. It re-enforces formality and urges greater independence for directors. The paper deals...; Tags: CEO, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Corporate Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2003-07-01
Outside Resources: Playing a Key Role in Sarbox Implementation: Realizing the importance of implementing internal controls to quickly address the new certification and disclosure requirements required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, many organizations have been hard at work, increasing staff and revamping their information technology with dedicated Sarbox software. This paper emphasizes the importance of reassigning the...; Tags: Staff, Kelly Services, Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Accounting, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2004-06-01
Plugging Into SarbOx: A raft of misdeeds have undermined the public's trust in the way corporations do business. Enron, HealthSouth, WorldCom and others have been caught in frauds of great proportion, leading to the adoption of new standards for accountability in business practices. Notable among these standards is the Sarbanes-Oxley SarbOx Act. In...; Tags: Enron Corp., Standards, Quality, Productivity, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Business Operations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2004-05-01
Survey: Sarbanes-Oxley Has Widespread Impact on Revenue Recognition Policies; RevenueRecognition.com Survey Reveals More than Half of All Public Companies Have Modified Revenue Recognition Policies to Comply with Sarbox: CANTON, Mass. -- One of the primary goals of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Sarbox is to ensure that companies are reporting accurate revenue numbers. Consequently, revenue recognition policies have been under particular scrutiny. A new survey of 400 public and private companies found that more than half (55%) of all public...; Tags: compliance, FINANCE, International Data Corp., revenue, survey; Research articles 2005-10-24
Sarbox Costly? Yes It Is, No It Isn't: The article focuses on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. A survey is conducted, respondents are split on whether Sarbanes-Oxley-compliance is costly or not. According to the latest quarterly Management Barometer survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers, 56 percent of the 150 CFOs and general managers surveyed said initial compliance with Sarbox was not...; Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Compliance, Survey, Sarbanes-Oxley, Marketing Research, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Marketing; White papers 2003-07-07