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What Enron Didn't Teach Us
Years after multibillion-dollar scandals rocked corporate America, more than half of employees at both public and private companies admit they have witnessed... Read more
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Recent Articles about Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The Moral Imagination of Entrepreneurs
To deal effectively and responsibly with both ongoing and emerging ethics issues, business needs to shift its perspective from reactive compliance t... Read more
Sarbanes-Oxley Takes Toll on Smaller Firms
New reports show that more public companies are reverting to private ownership because of high compliance costs. Read more
SEC Offers Small Businesses Sarbox Relief
March 14, 2005 -- Sarbanes-Oxley can be a headache for small businesses, but relief may be in sight with the extension of a key upcomin... Read more
Fast-Growing Firms Feel Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley
June 28, 2005 --The PricewaterhouseCoopers' Trendsetter Barometer released last week reported that 17% of the fastest growing private comp... Read more
Sarbanes-Oxley Regulations May Be Loosened
Dec. 13, 2005 --Small public companies could save millions of dollars now spent on audits required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, according to... Read more
SEC Seeks Public Input on Sarbanes-Oxley
Some small businesses claim compliance too burdensome and discourages them from public offerings. Read more
Sarbanes-Oxley Regulations May Be Loosened
Dec. 13, 2005 --Small public companies could save millions of dollars now spent on audits required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, according to... Read more
Five Ways that Smart Companies Comply
Some tips for playing by the Sarbanes-Oxley rules. Read more
What Does Sarbanes-Oxley Mean for Companies That Want to Go Public?
Added costs may keep smaller businesses away. Read more
Giving Up on SarbOx
There's little more annoying than the biggest kid on the court threatening to take his ball and go home because he doesn't like the rules of the game. B... Read more
Learning to Love Whistleblowers
Some businesses that once feared whistleblowers are now giving workers new ways to report wrongdoing. Read more
Audits, Internal
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Board of Directors
Related Terms: Sarbanes-Oxley A corporation is a... Read more
Record Retention
Related Terms: Internal Revenue Service Audits... Read more
SEC Disclosure Laws and Regulations
Related Terms: Sarbanes-Oxley Companies that are... Read more
Sarbanes-Oxley Has Some Publics Thinking Private
May 20, 2004 -- The increasing cost of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform law has more public companies mulling going private, acco... Read more
Private Companies Make SarbOx Changes
June 21, 2004 -- The Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform laws that have forced public companies to take a long, hard look at their financial ... Read more
Sarbanes-Oxley Draws Renewed Criticism
Jan. 13, 2005 --Less than three years after the public scandals of Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing first came to light, a group of com... Read more
SEC Confirms Sarbox Reprieve
Small firms have an extra year to comply with strict auditing rules created after Enron. Read more
How to Create a Million Jobs
If members of Congress wanted to create a million jobs, all they would have to do is repeal in its entirety the legislation that is known as Sarbanes Oxle... Read more
Sarbanes-Oxley
On December 2, 2001, the Enron Corporation, a highly-respected and rapidly growing energy-trading company filed for bankruptcy. It had inflated its earnin... Read more
In With the New
The Department of Labor routinely eliminates outmoded job titles from its database. Titles such as bonbon dipper and rubber attacher have been bounced recent... Read more
The Home Depot
Bernie Marcus, founder of The Home Depot, addresses how Sarbanes-Oxley affects small business owners today. He encourages all small business owners to get... Watch video
The Allure of Going Public
The idea of going public seems remote these days. Only now is the IPO market starting to show signs of life again. And with the Sarbanes-Oxley governance ... Read more
Going Private
The number of public companies going private has increased since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted on July 30, 2002, according to a recent press release ... Read more
Productivity Tools
Innovative new products and services make it easier to ensure that your business processes are running smoothly, meet regulatory requirements, and are protec... Read more
The Moral Imagination of Entrepreneurs
To deal effectively and responsibly with both ongoing and emerging ethics issues, business needs to shift its perspective from reactive compli... Read more
Sarb-Ox Spurs New Accounting Systems for Small Businesses
August 3, 2004 -- Microsoft Excel might be nearing its 20th birthday, but a recent study shows that small and mid-sized companies have be... Read more
How to Prepare a Company for an Initial Public Offering
An initial public offering of stock can be viewed as the definitive sign of a company's success. Here is a look at the steps a company can take to prepare fo... Read more
In Praise of Privacy
These days, transparency is all the rage. But businesses need a little privacy -- and sometimes a lot of it. Read more
Five Ideas to Watch
Going private, Republican ice cream, a fab scanner, and more. Plus: Remembering a factoring guru. Read more
Audits, External
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In This Issue
This month's letter from the editor. Read more
Financial Statements
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Small Firms Denied Break on Sarbanes-Oxley
The SEC ruled against giving small public companies an exemption from the corporate governance law. Read more
The Government's Take on E-mail
Regulators have (surprise) thought up lots of rules governing e-mail. It's your job to figure out which ones cover you. Read more
IPOs Hit a 30-Year Low
But the guy who took Google and Netscape public is not concerned Read more
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