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    Sarbanes Oxley - overview

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    BUAD 310 Sarbanes Oxley The SarbanesOxley Act of 2002also known as the ’Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act and Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act and more commonly called Sarbanes Oxley‚ Sarbox or SOX‚ is a United States federal law that set new or enhanced standards for all U.S. public company boards‚ management and public accounting firms. It is named after sponsors U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes and U.S. Representative Michael G. Oxley. The Sarbanes-Oxley

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    * Fraud decrease as a consequence of increased transparency of financial reporting -- -5- 3. The second effect of Sarbanes-Oxley Act: the education sphere of accounting * New informational sources ------------------------------------------------------------------- -7- * SOX coverage at Business/Economics colleges of the USA----------------------------- -8- * How business schools need to prepare future accountants ------------------------------- -9- 4. Conclusion------------

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    SOX SOX: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was signed into federal law in July 2002. It is commonly knows as SOX and was a result of the majoring accounting and corporate scandals‚ including Enron and WorldCom. Essentially‚ this act puts new and tighter accounting restrictions and standards on public firms and their accounting practices. SOX also established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board which oversees and regulates accounting firms. In summary‚ this act further regulates the

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    Some of the pitfalls of the pre-Sarbanes-Oxley era were‚ in my opinion‚ no accountability for Chief Executive Officers (CEO) and other high level executives‚ the imposition of very small fines and no prison time for devastating frauds‚ and a lack of independence of external auditors and the board of directors. With this in mind‚ I believe five advantages of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to be: 1. That it holds CEO’s accountable for internal controls so that they cannot claim that they did not know

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    Sarbanes Oxley Memo

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    August 22‚ 2005 SUBJECT: Sarbanes-Oxley recommendations As consultants for Ancher Public Trading (APT)‚ Learning Team A would like to discuss the implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) legislation. This memorandum provides a brief history of SOX¡¦s creation‚ explains the relationship amongst the FASB‚ SEC and PCAOB‚ describes the pros and cons of SOX‚ assesses the impacts of SOX‚ and lists ethical considerations of SOX. History of SOX - the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is legislation in response

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    1- public accounting firm is a firm that registered by the public accounting oversight board so it provides accounting service to public company. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 contains provision preventing any company which is not registered with the board from‚ furnishing‚ participating in an audit of a public company or preparing. the different categories of public accounting firm are as follow : (Local  Regional  National  Big 4  Alternative Practice Structures) Also there are different

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    The Sarbanes Oxley Act‚ 2002 Impact on Enron Derrick Love California State University San Bernardino MGMT 355-01 Dr. Coates November 20‚ 2014 Abstract I have chosen “The Sarbanes Oxley Act‚ 2002” as my law and the Enron Company as my corporation. The Sarbanes Oxley Act‚ 2002 is a law that has been put in place in the public interest or for the protection of investors‚ and in furtherance of this Act. The law read as follows‚ The Commission shall promulgate such rules and regulations

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    Sarbanes-Oxley Act Dana Smith LAW/321 December 6‚ 2011 Michelle Hamilton Sarbanes-Oxley Act In the corporate world today the rules and regulations are stricter than they were in early 2000. The development of corporate governance that established procedures to be used by officers and directors for lines of responsibility‚ approval‚ oversight by key stockholders‚ and set the rules for corporate decision making became more extreme. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 made the use of

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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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    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 shareholders in case of this kind of vulnerable frauds and deceptive accounting reporting in the part of the management. During

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