I. Background on SOX The Securities and Exchange Commission was created in 1934 to police the U.S. financial markets. The pioneers of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 saw a close connection between protecting investors and maintaining a healthy economy. In the past years‚ the SEC did not provide the regulation and control that might have prevented the worst results of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its failures were of two kinds. First‚ succumbing to the deregulatory environment
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Week 5: Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Summary ACC/291 10 June 2013 Judith Bines Introduction The Sarbanes-Oxley Act‚ also known as SOX‚ is a federal law that requires publicly traded companies to individually certify the accuracy of their financial information. The law was enacted as a reaction to corporate accounting scandals that
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John Grisham: the Pelican Brief Summary: Two Supreme Court Justices‚ Rosenberg and Jensen‚ are murdered. Darby Shaw starts an investigation in different libraries for some days and opens a file about her theory why Rosenberg and Jensen could have been killed. She thinks that Victor Mattiece is responsible for the two deaths because Rosenberg and Jensen prevent him of gaining the oil in South Louisiana and in fact‚ her theory is completely true. Characters: · Darby Shaw: She is a 24- year- old girl
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Nowadays‚ when we hear the term “Hypertext” there is one typical image that comes to mind; underlined text in blue color. We can safely assume that 99.9% of people interacting with computers recognize this text format‚ and are subconsciously driven to interact with it (click). Officially‚ we call “Hypertext” the kind of text that is displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access‚ usually by a mouse click or key-press
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followed‚ and was also put in place to help restore confidence in the financial market. SOX-Applies only to US companies on the US exchange‚ and is an Act put in place in 2002 to mandate all publicly traded corporations to maintain adequate internal control. SOX basically make sure that all US publicly traded corporation do what is in the best interest to protect the investment of stockholders. SOX-Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is an ACT that was put in place where all publicly traded U.S. corporations
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References: United States Securities and Exchange Commission (September 2009). Study of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Section 404; Internal Control over Financial Reporting Requirements. Retrieved from http://www.sec.gov/news/studies/2009/sox-404_study.pdf Price Water House Coopers. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Retrieved from http://www.pwc.com/en_US/us/sarbanes-oxley/assets/final_so_wp_2-boardsac.pdf “Corporate Governance. The Wall Street Journal Reports.” Wall Street Journal‚ February
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Jealous of his adoptive brother and fearful he won’t inherit his father’s fortune‚ a man gets entangled with mobsters and his adoptive brother must find him before it’s too late. BRIEF SYNOPSIS BROCK (12) is spoiled and likes to raise hell. His single father‚ CLIFFORD‚ doesn’t have the heart to discipline him. When Clifford’s best friend dies‚ Clifford adopts his orphan son‚ DEREK (12). Derek is the complete opposite of Brock. Brock soon becomes jealous. His father wishes Brock were more like Derek
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John Grisham‚ an author from Arkansas‚ wrote a book called The Pelican Brief. John doesn’t just view his books as books. He views them as entertainment for everyone else. In The Pelican Brief‚ John shows how the brown pelican stirs conflict in court and leads to the murders of two Supreme Court Justices who both agree on one topic: the environment. The brown pelican is a “gull-like” bird that usually tops out around 11 pounds (Brown Pelican). These birds have multicolored streaks of brown‚ yellow
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HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION PE II golf The Game Golf is a game played outdoors preferably on a rolling tree lined terrain. A golf course may be either 9 or 18 holes in length with the usual distance measuring from 100 to 500 yards per hole. The golfer begins at the tee‚ driving the ball along the fairway (attempting to avoid hazards such as woods‚ water‚ rough ground‚ and sand traps)‚ to the green‚ where the ball is putted into the cup. The purpose is to see how few of strokes it takes
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Summary- It all starts out in Redding‚ Connecticut with a boy named Tim Meeker. Tim is a young boy who has always wanted to be like his brother‚ because being like his brother means he will attend college at yale and make their father proud. All was going as planned until one day when Tim’s older brother Sam shows up at home from college unannounced. Tim and his family soon learn that Sam has come home to retrieve their father’s gun‚ because he has decided to fight in the war. Before anyone could
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