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accounting profession since the 2001 Enron Fraud After the Enron and WorldCom business climate‚ there came a new US federal law called Sarbanes – Oxley Act. The SOX contains 11 titles that describe specific mandates and requirements for financial reporting. It makes corporate executives more accountable for their actions. Companies invested a tremendous amount of resources‚ time‚ and effort in order to comply with the requirements. It clearly improved the internal control environment and its ongoing continuity
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Table of Contents Abstract Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in response to financial scandals perpetrated by Enron and WorldCom‚ and it has had a strong impact on corporate accounting and financial decision-making. This law was intended to enhance financial transparency for publicly-traded companies. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act established new regulations and penalties for public companies to protect investors. In addition
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remember that for a Public Ltd Co.‚ the stakeholders interests are foremost‚ not just shareholders. There must be more transparency between the management and employees and also the clients and the general public. Something of this sort happened with Enron and its Auditing firm "Arthur Anderson"‚ now Accenture. They used to say ’ you can teach Accountancy to an honest person but not honesty to an (dishonest) Accountant ’. "You can fool some of the people all the time; All the people for some of the
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Sarbanes-Oxley‚ or SOX‚ is a federal law that is the most comprehensive reform of business practices since Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the U.S. who passed the New Deal” (Peavler‚ 2014). “The Enron scandal proved the need to new compliance standards for public accounting and auditing. Enron was one of biggest and financially sound companies in U.S. But its malpractice resulted as a catalyst for the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. In order to cut down on the incidence of corporate fraud‚ Senator
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contribute to the Enron disaster? Arthur Andersen contributed to the Enron disaster by failing to have Enron establish and enforce internal controls. Also by destroying Enron audit papers which covered deficiencies contributed to the Enron disaster. The formal charges and jail sentence were a result of the obstruction of justice caused by the destruction of the audit papers. 3. What was the prime motivation behind the decisions of Arthur Andersen’s audit partners on the Enron‚ Worldcom‚ Waste
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which I have decided to discuss is entitled "Mending the Holes in Sox. The Control Matrix as an internal Audit tool". This particular article goes well with our discussion in chapter 9 on the Control Matrix. With in this article the authors uses examples of the cash receipts process to show how the control matrix system will help any company no matter what type of work they do. It starts off by informing us that internal control systems are not always good and that sometimes they fail to prevent fraud
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also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002‚ is a federal law enacted in response to corporate and accounting scandals that led to bankruptcies and severe stock losses. Corrupt corporations‚ particularly Enron‚ WorldCom and Tyco‚ were acting unethical by committing accounting errors and fraudulent practices by management which led to scandals in 2001. The scandals impacted investors‚ who lost billions of dollars when the stock prices plummeted‚ and the public
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misconducts‚ such as accounting irregularities and fraud. More seriously‚ it developed a number of lawsuits from1997 to 2005‚ which impelled the SEC to keep a close watch on‚ from its client such as Baptist Foundation of Arizona‚ Sunbeam‚ Waste Management‚ Enron‚ and Worldcom. Especially for the SEC to Enron’s investigating‚ it would be a deadly strike of Andersen. Until 2005‚ the Supreme Court threw out the lawsuit for Andersen. Nevertheless‚ the accounting firm would be difficult to rebuild its original
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to corporate accounting scandals that caused investors to lose billions of dollars. SOX was passed in 2002 and required senior managers to certify that their reported financial statement was accurate. SOX also required companies to establish internal controls and reporting methods. Recent Accounting Scandals Investors‚ creditors‚ shareholders‚ and others that use financial records to make sound business decisions have always relied on corporations to report their financial information accurately
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