The Securities and Exchange Commission was created in 1934 to police the U.S. financial markets. Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission continues to create legislation tightening reporting ...

The Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protections Act of 2002, 1 commonly known as the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act,” or “SOX” for short, has been in effect for twenty years, and as we celebrate ...

Since the passage of the Public Company Account­ing Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act), small and mid-sized public companies have struggled to comply with its onerous ...

Congress is poised this year to pass legislation that would change Sarbanes-Oxley, which could make it easier for private companies to go public. The potential legislation, which would enable ...

In the early 2000s, a series of corporate accounting scandals rocked the financial markets—Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, and others. It was an open secret that some corporations were engaging in ...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is a federal law that established sweeping auditing and financial regulations for public companies. Lawmakers created the legislation to help protect shareholders, ...

“The intent of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was to increase shareholder confidence, yet many companies aren’t going public because of these regulations,” observed Roger D. Burks, a managing partner at ...

Food safety is the crazy uncle of corporate food production – everyone has one, but no one really wants to talk about him or it. Corporate management on average is far more interested in food sales ...

This hearing is important and timely. With more than three years of national experience with Sarbanes-Oxley implementation to consider, Congress can now easily see that its good intentions have ...

In the wake of a variety of accounting scandals that cost investors billions of dollars, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was introduced in 2002 to provide assurance about the accuracy and completeness of ...

On December 2, 2001, the Enron Corporation, a highly-respected and rapidly growing energy-trading company filed for bankruptcy. It had inflated its earnings by nearly $600 million in the 1994—2001 ...

Administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) starting in 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) regulates corporate financial records and provides penalties for their abuse. It defines the ...