Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley Act

ABSTRACT
This paper provides an in-depth evaluation of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which is said to be promoted to produce change in the corporate environment, in general, by stressing issues of public accountability and disclosure in the financial operations of business. It explains how this is an Act that represents the government 's and the Security and Exchange Commission 's concern in promoting ethical standards in terms of financial disclosure in the corporate environment.
This paper addresses the current criticism of the exportation of U.S. corporate governance norms under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, focusing on the application of the audit committee requirement to foreign issuers from European countries with codetermination laws, and the prevention of loans to executives with respect to German issuers. In reply to such criticism, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has already granted foreign issuers several limited exemptions from the Act, as well as an exemption dealing with the audit committee independence requirement, motivated by the desire to reattract foreign companies that canceled listings in the U.S. in response to the Act. This paper provides additional legal and economic justifications favoring the exclusion of foreign companies from the audit committee and loan prohibition requirements.
Corporate greed and corruption has altered the face of American business forever. Corporate greed was the primary reason in the downfall of Global Crossing, Enron and MCI WorldCom. The paper shows that the governing bodies, the Senate, NASD, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other powers that be decided to act and in 2002, the Senate introduced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The paper discussed how this new law impacts CPA 's, CPA firms auditing public firms, publicly traded firms and their employees. The paper looks at the mission and purpose of the law and examines its affect on the accounting industry.
GENERAL DISCUSSION
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act,

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