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Category: Corporate Law
inside SarbanesOxley - November 30, 2008
Noteworthy language in the relief regarding market transparency, oversight and audit, and mark-to-market (MTM) FAS157 treatment:
Section 114. Market Transparency.
48-hour Reporting Requirement: The Secretary is required, within 2 business days of exercising authority...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 26, 2008
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board voted today to propose for public comment a new auditing standard on engagement quality review and a conforming amendment to the Boards interim quality control requirements. This proposed standard would supersede the Boards...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 25, 2008
Corporate collapse is in the air once again; loss and recrimination stalks the business world as bankers switch from being money marketers to capital conservers.
Just how much risk capital will be lost during this credit squeeze is unknowable, of course, but its unlikely...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 25, 2008
Excerpt from comments on Competitiveness
In the last year, three major studies have called into question U.S. competitiveness. Each concludes that America is losing ground to foreign markets. They suggest that these trends may be caused by foreign markets developing and...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 23, 2008
A union is trying to force nonprofit groups like hospitals to comply with standards of governing similar to those that federal law requires of private companies.
In particular, the union, the 1.9-million-member Service Employees International, argues that a Boston...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 23, 2008
If you listened carefully, you could almost hear the collective sigh of relief from 5,000 smaller public companies when Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox proposed yet another extension to the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) deadline for an external...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 19, 2008
Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says.
The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities.
Other versions of the pages, hosted in...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 19, 2008
Overseas employees of US-listed companies that uncover fraud that took place in the US can be protected under the US corporate governance legislation, according to a ruling made in New York.
Judge Victor Marrero of the US District Court, found that Rosemary OMahoney, a...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 10, 2008
Corporate governance is an essential condition to the establishment of a stock market, attracting major investment and developing national reserves which will lead to combating unemployment and reducing poverty, said Dr. Yahya al-Mutawakel, the Minister of Industry and...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 08, 2008
A Massachusetts healthcare workers union is asking board members of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to apply Sarbanes-Oxley Act disclosure rules to the non-profit hospital's audits.
The 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East sent letters to six of Beth Israel's 18...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 08, 2008
Have a little pity on your companys accounting department or at least their managers.
A report released at the end of January confirmed that local companies are suffering the same shortage of accounting and finance professionals that national surveys have shown during...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 06, 2008
For so many companies, internal discussions have largely gotten past SOX compliance to a point of business as usual.
What I do appreciate however, is that good, clear guidance continues to be developed. For those many professionals that have moved onto new challenges, the...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 05, 2008
Think of her as the mother of 404.Not that that's a goal she ever imagined or one she has embraced. But the odyssey that began when Cynthia Cooper, the thenvice president of internal audit at WorldCom, decided to investigate anomalies in the company's accounting entries...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 05, 2008
The 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act includes a mandate that the U.S. Postal Service comply with Securities and Exchange Commission rules that implement the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by fiscal 2010. The act requires corporations to report on the effectiveness...
inside SarbanesOxley - February 05, 2008
Conventional wisdom said demand for accountants and auditors would have tapered off by now.
Well, conventional wisdom was wrong.
Staffing agencies such as Robert Half International, which specializes in pairing employers with accountants, say demand for talented, skilled...
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