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 ...

It has been six years since Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after the devastating accounting irregularities of Enron and WorldCom. While the intent of the law was to prevent corporate fraud, ...

Private companies and charities aren’t required to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. But they can adopt some of its requirements as best practices. Cherry-picking the provisions that will help them ...

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Nonprofit leaders should bring some birthday cake to their next board meeting and use it as a way to celebrate and reflect on the changes in governance that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act brought about when ...

A former FBI agent and member of the Ohio legislature, Oxley came to Congress in 1981 via a special election following the death of Rep. Tennyson Guyer. He was named chairman of the Financial Services ...

— -- Investors who got a midsummer haircut last week during the Dow's 735-point drop from 14,000 probably aren't singing Happy Birthday for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which is 5 years old today. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the accounting industry and accounting issues for investors. Every year since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) Act ...

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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 ...