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Category: Corporate Law
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
Dreading your pending SOX initiative? Or the thoughts of IPO? Or how you might refine your implementation?
Hopefully, "Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404A Guide for Small Business" from the SEC takes some of the sting out of it. This incorporates much of the thinking and...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has been viewed as a watershed event in dealing with corporate fraud. In addition to its extensive provisions dealing with internal controls and corporate accounting procedures, the law adopted new crimes and pushed the United States...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox asked Congress to approve his nearly $1 billion budget request for fiscal year 2009.
If lawmakers agree the SEC needs its first budget increase in three years, the commission will have realized a roughly 4 percent...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
Recently, the US Government implemented a new rule and proposed yet more rules regarding ethics and corporate compliance programs for government contractors. This marks a continuing shift towards adopting a more aggressive approach in addressing government contractor fraud,...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
Another resource available for those seeking to better understand and manage their SOD risks and issues.
Corporate and IT executives continue to feel the pressures of assuring
federal regulators, auditors, boards of directors, and stockholders that
corporate financial...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has scheduled an open meeting for Tuesday, April 22, at 9:30 a.m. in the Board's open meeting room at 1666 K St. NW, Washington, DC.
The Board will consider adopting Rule 3526, Communication with Audit Committees Concerning...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
I appreciate when readers share their challenges in applying issues and concepts, as invariably there are an additional dozen people also struggling with this same topic.
One professional writes:
I am new at this and need to understand about SOX and SOD, do you have any...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
Knowledge Management (KM) is more than a buzz phrase running through organizations, so if you were hoping this discussion was going to abruptly end, think again.
With so many organizations facing labor shortages as the baby boomers look toward retirement, it becomes not...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
When auditors seek evidence of fraud, they take a careful look at a company's financial statements. Maybe they should examine other statements, such as those uttered by company executives.
That's the theory behind new fraud-detection software developed by two professors at...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
The Board adopted Rule 3526 to enhance communication between audit committees and registered firms regarding the firm's independence. Rule 3526 will require a registered public accounting firm, before accepting an initial engagement pursuant to the standards of the PCAOB,...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
Internal auditors at the International Monetary Fund released a harshly critical report on governance Wednesday and urged "major changes" to maintain the embattled institution's relevance.
The Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF said that effectiveness had been the...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
Two lawsuits filed by former employees against Fidelity Investments may resolve a simmering dispute in the securities industry: Whether mutual fund employees are protected by a whistle-blower law adopted in the wake of corporate accounting scandals.The Sarbanes-Oxley Act...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
For those that have felt the corporate governance requirements under SOX were unreasonable, consider these findings in Austrailia regarding corporate governance practices. The themes sound all too familiar.
Australias largest publicly listed companies generally meet all...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
The drumbeat for the use of enterprise risk management processes at major companies is getting louder thanks to the credit crisis.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterdayThursday that the credit crisis has exposed weaknesses in many financial firms...
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
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