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    Sarbanes-Oxley Act Assignment1: Sarbanes-Oxley Act Sieressa Woods Professor ACC 403: Auditing and Assurance August 19‚ 2012 Assignment: 1 Sarbanes-Oxley Act Say Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to anyone who is in the field of business and they will be able to tell you a story of Enron’s fraud and that it was because of Enron fraud

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    Sarbanes-Oxley Act Brandie Cortinas ENGL 145(D-21) 5-12-14 Ms. Vivian Abstract The act enacted in response to financial problems to protect the public from accounting errors and fraud. The act does not specify how a business should store their records; rather‚ it defines which records are to be stored and for how long they’re going to be stored. The act affects the financial corporations and the IT department. All business records must be saved for more than five

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    Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Sabah Saiyed ACC/561 May 21‚ 2014 Susan Hurley Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 “The paper describes the main aspects of the regulatory environment which will protect the public from fraud within corporations. It pays particular attention to SOX requirements and specifically evaluate whether SOX will be effective in avoiding future frauds” (University of Phoenix‚ 2014). Introduction “In the never ending battle against white collar crimes and corporate corruption‚ the

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    Sarbanes-Oxley Act In recent years‚ many companies have grown to conglomerate status and then cut down to nothing through misleading management practices‚ unethical leaders‚ and non-regulated accounting methods. Investors are happy when they are making money from these rising businesses and then devastated and sometimes completely ruined by their fall. The world of business has come a long way since the laissez-faire government attitudes of the 19th Century. Governmental rules and regulations

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    Zack Cearley 11/15/2012 Accounting 1101- Mason The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ often abbreviated as SOX‚ is a legislative act passed by Congress in response to the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals. The primary purpose of SOX is to protect shareholders from errors or fraudulent reporting by the company they have invested in. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is enforced by the Securities and Exchange Commission‚ a department dedicated to ensuring compliance to SOX from

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    Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Michael Perez University of Phoenix ACC 561 Moises Rodriguez February 21‚ 2014 Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 In 2002‚ change came to the financial reporting sector for entities in the form of regulation and governance. The change‚ Sarbanes-Oxley or Sox Act‚ was a new federal law‚ setting new standards for financial reporting that public entities‚ management‚ and accounting firms to obey by. Sox put accountability on management to now certify the accuracy of their

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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 The Sarbanes-Oxley is a U.S. federal law that has generated much controversy‚ and involved the response to the financial scandals of some large corporations such as Enron‚ Tyco International‚ WorldCom and Peregrine Systems. These scandals brought down the public confidence in auditing and accounting firms. The law is named after Senator Paul Sarbanes Democratic Party and GOP Congressman Michael G. Oxley. It was passed by large majorities in both Congress and the Senate and covers

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    Sarbanes-Oxley Act Contents Overview 3 Enron 3 Sarbanes-Oxley Act 3 11 Titles 4 Major Sections of SOX 5 Section 302 5 Section 404 6 Section 409 6 Section 902 7 Section 906 7 After SOX: What has Sarbanes-Oxley Accomplished & Issues that Remain 7 Conclusion 8 Overview The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed into law in 2002 by President Bush. Sarbanes- Oxley came to be because of corporate level accounting scandals that had then‚ recently occurred. The most common of

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    15 February 06 Sarbanes-Oxley Act The "Sarbanes-Oxley Act" is a comprehensive corporate reform package that was signed into the US law on July 30‚ 2002. The passage of the Act has been heralded by some as a historic occasion—calling it the most significant accounting legislation since 1933‚ while others have severely criticized the Act either as a "too little too late measure" or as a hasty knee jerk reaction to a temporary situation. Without a doubt‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the single most

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