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Author: Henry N. Butler Publisher: A E I Press ISBN: 9780844771946 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 0
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The authors argue that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is a colossal failure, yet seek to salvage some lessons from the ruins of SOX.
Author: Henry N. Butler Publisher: A E I Press ISBN: 9780844771946 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 0
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The authors argue that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is a colossal failure, yet seek to salvage some lessons from the ruins of SOX.
Author: Larry E. Ribstein Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 4
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This Abstract introduces the authors' new book, The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: What We've Learned; How to Fix It (The AEI Press 2006). The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (quot;SOXquot;) is a colossal failure, poorly conceived and hastily enacted during a regulatory panic. Everyone now concedes that the direct compliance costs of SOX have been much greater than anticipated. While that alone should give any serious policy analyst pause, the Act's defenders press the case that SOX was worth its problems. This book demonstrates that the supporters are wrong in their assessment: Both logic and evidence make it clear that SOX was a costly mistake.
Author: Zoltan J. Acs Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0387726632 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 305
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This unique volume presents policy recommendations designed to promote entrepreneurship. It considers timely issues like impact of securities regulation, educational policy and intellectual property protection on entrepreneurship. In the process, the book addresses policies operating at the individual, national, regional, and international levels, and offers a unique perspective on several institutional structures that enhance entrepreneurship and economic growth.
Author: Robert A. Prentice Publisher: South-Western College ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 68
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This brief guide explains the ins-and-outs of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, helping you understand how this major legislative change affects CEOs, CFOs, and other financially responsible officers -- and ultimately you in your own business life.
Author: George Benston Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 9780815708919 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 154
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A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publication A few years ago, Americans held out their systems of corporate governance and financial disclosure as models to be emulated by the rest of the world. But in late 2001 U.S. policymakers and corporate leaders found themselves facing the largest corporate accounting scandals in American history. The spectacular collapses of Enron and Worldcom—as well as the discovery of accounting irregularities at other large U.S. companies—seemed to call into question the efficacy of the entire system of corporate governance in the United States. In response, Congress quickly enacted a comprehensive package of reform measures in what has come to be known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ followed by making fundamental changes to their listing requirements. The private sector acted as well. Accounting firms—watching in horror as one of their largest, Arthur Andersen, collapsed after a criminal conviction for document shredding—tightened their auditing procedures. Stock analysts and ratings agencies, hit hard by a series of disclosures about their failings, changed their practices as well. Will these reforms be enough? Are some counterproductive? Are other shortcomings in the disclosure system still in need of correction? These are among the questions that George Benston, Michael Bromwich, Robert E. Litan, and Alfred Wagenhofer address in Following the Money. While the authors agree that the U.S. system of corporate disclosure and governance is in need of change, they are concerned that policymakers may be overreacting in some areas and taking actions in others that may prove to be ineffective or even counterproductive. Using the Enron case as a point of departure, the authors argue that the major problem lies not in the accounting and auditing standards themselves, but in the system of enforcing those standards.
Author: Joshua Ronen Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0387257713 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 587
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This book is a study of earnings management, aimed at scholars and professionals in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address research questions including: Why are earnings so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? How will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers, customers and regulators affect earnings management? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?
Author: Melinda Rudnick Publisher: ISBN: Category : Accounting Languages : en Pages : 72
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The accounting world was turned upside down on October 16, 2001, the day Enron announced it was going to restate their earnings by over $500 million. Six months later WorldCom announced the largest earnings restatement in SEC history. The two scandals were the breaking point that prompted Congress to take action. On July 25, 2001 the United States House of Representatives and the Senate approved the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and President Bush signed the bill into law on July 30, 2002. The law puts restrictions on auditor services, sets requirements for corporations to include in their business models, and sets standards for penalties enforced when fraud is found. The bill was not without its problems. First year compliance costs for companies averaged $4.36 million. However, the costs and prior fraud scandals could have been avoided if the SEC would have considered earlier recommendations from a report issued by the General Accounting Office in 1996.
Author: Peter Krimmer Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638453928 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 163
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Diploma Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: Sehr Gut (Grade: A), Vienna University of Economics and Business (Management Accounting and Auditing), language: English, abstract: The present thesis examines the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOA) on European companies and identifies their attitude towards its provisions. To raise the information needed, from May until the end of June 2005 all affected European companies (290) received access to the online questionnaire. Overall nearly twenty percent responded to the questionnaire. The following key findings have been identified: •The smaller a company is, the more problems it has to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. •The degree of the top management’s involvement in the compliance process plays a crucial role. •Almost every company has a formal code of ethics in place, but their senior management does not communicate it enough to their employees. •Almost every company has a whistleblower hotline in place to let all employees raise ethics and compliance issues and many of them also indicate that it allows an anonymous, confidential reporting and follow-up on raised issues. Only 30 percent of the hotlines were managed by an outside third party. •Most of the companies believe that the compliance costs have exceeded the benefits in 2004, but a positive trend - after the first compliance - towards the benefits can be identified. All in all, the thesis provides a representative overview on the SOA compliance situation of European companies.
Author: Susan M. Gates Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 0833043951 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 369
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What are the differential effects of regulation and policy on small businesses? What is the impact of special regulatory treatment for small businesses? This book sheds light on these issues through analysis of the regulatory and public policy environment with regard to small businesses, including focused studies in four key areas: health insurance, workplace safety, corporate governance, and business organization.
Author: Henry N. Butler
Author: Henry N. Butler
Author: Larry E. Ribstein
Author: Zoltan J. Acs
Author: Robert A. Prentice
Author: George Benston
Author: Joshua Ronen
Author: James Fanning
Author: Melinda Rudnick
Author: Peter Krimmer
Author: Susan M. Gates