Small and Large Firms Regulatory Costs: The Case of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act By James A. Millar and B. Wade Bowen The article first begins with an introduction of how and why the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) came about as a result of large scandals such as Enron and Tyco. Many companies believed that the costs of these new regulations exceeded the benefits‚ which is found prevalent with the addition of section 404 which required an auditor’s opinion on annual financial reports. In particular
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SOX Compliance The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (passed on 30 July 2002) is a federal law of United States that has established new and improved regulations for all the US companies in reaction to the growing financial statement frauds‚ which resulted in huge losses to investors. So it was an attempt by US congress to reinforce corporate governance and restore the faith of the investors in the US financial reporting system. It made extensive changes in the freedom and productiveness of the auditors
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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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Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Eleven Titles of SOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. PCAOB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2. Auditor Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3. Corporate Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4. Enhanced Financial Disclosures . . .
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Question 1: What are the primary goals and tenets of SOX with respect to fraud? The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was created to reduce financial statement fraud by two main congressmen; Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael OXLEY. The primary goal of the SOX was to fix auditing of US public companies ‚ also SOX improvement of the quality of audits in an attempt to eliminate fraud in order to protect the public’s interest‚ as well as for the protection of the investors (Donaldson‚ 2003)
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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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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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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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