[Type the company name] | Why the Sarbanes-Oxley Act should not be repealed. | [Type the document subtitle] | | Introduction of Sarbanes Oxley On March 5th‚ 2001‚ Fortune magazine released an article by Bethany McLean. The theme of this article was that Enron’s stocks were overpriced. She stated that Enron’s stocks were really popular and that its numbers were really impressive. Its revenues had doubled to over $100 billion‚ earnings were increasing by 25% and stocks were returning
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efficiency for financial markets‚ insidious plans are still developed by companies which ultimately result in turmoil to the economy. To provide a safeguard to investors‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was passed by congress in 2002‚ which was constructed because of fraudulent acts of well-known companies such as Enron. Before the SOX was inaugurated‚ two sets of accounting rules were used as guides for CPA firms. These two practices were GAAP‚ which stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Student ACC/561 June 8‚ 2015 Professor Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Introduction The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was established after many corporate scandals such as Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and AIG cost investors billions of dollars. Financial fallout from these scandals reduced the American public ’s trust in the economy. The enactment of SOX in 2002 holds corporations to higher standards in reporting financial statements to internal and external users. Even though the
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act The Sarbanes-Oxley act was enacted in 2002 following corporate financial scandals like those involving Enron and WorldCom. The act was created in order to combat corporate accounting fraud and enhance the quality of corporate financial disclosures. To accomplish this‚ the act created the "Public Company Accounting Oversight Board"‚ or PCAOB to oversee audits and compliance. History of the Act The Sarbanes-Oxley act arose as a result of several corporate accounting scandals
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transparency. The typical example is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ as well as Section 302‚ 404‚ mandatory
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act Article Analysis This article discussed the reasons why the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted. The corporate fraud and dishonesty the was present in companies such as Enron Corp‚ WorldCom‚ and Adelphia Communications‚ Inc. required the Federal government to enact legislation that would protect the free enterprise system within the United States. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) that is responsible for regulating accounting
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ACC 290 Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) originated on July 29‚ 2002 due to fraudulent bookkeeping practices and misleading financial reports from large corporations. These practices created a number of accounting scandals‚ which resulted in this in the government creating such an act. The purpose was to prevent and punish corporate corruption and‚ along the way‚ try to repair investor confidence. The law was passed by congress after well-known
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incidents of fraud and to improve the investors’ confidence and also to rein in the excessive freedom of management which resulted in the corporate scandals‚ USA passed a new act‚ called Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002. The objective of the act was to bring more reliability and accuracy to corporate disclosures. The new Act required the chief executive(CEO) and financial officers(CFO) to certify the quarterly and annual reports of the company and this made them more accountable and answerable to the
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dollars when the share prices of the affected companies collapsed. In response to the public outcry regarding loss of investments through these scandals‚ Jain and Rezaee (2006) stated that the US federal law known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was enacted on July 30th‚ 2002 to strengthen corporate governance and restore investors’ trust in the capital market. Objective of the study This paper will define the corporate scandals of the past decade using Enron and their auditors Arthur Andersen
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Unit 4 Assignment Abstract In this assignment I will be looking at what Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is and why it came to be. How SOX has affected the accounting and auditing industry and what the benefits and costs are and what changes have happened or should happen moving into the future with SOX. Unit 4 Assignment A family man has invested a portion of his retirement into a growing stock
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