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    The Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Auditing Practice In business‚ there should have various rules and regulation governing in order to avoid mismanagement and frauds associated. In the United States‚ several bodies have been put in place to oversee‚ create registration‚ reporting and‚ providing transparency. Such bodies include‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) which eventually resulted in the creation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight

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    Unit 1 Assignment GM506 Strategic Financial Analysis February 8‚ 2014 Case 1-10 A). The Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) refers to " the Commission" in several sections. To what Commission is SOX referring? SOX is referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This Commission is has the " authority to determine GAAP ( Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)‚ and to regulate the accounting profession ( Gibson‚ 2013‚ p. 2)." Because the SEC has the authority

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    Section 404 Sarbanes Oxley

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    The Limitations of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Darren Abraham MSAF 670 University of Maryland University College The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is a legislation enacted in 2002 under the sponsorship of U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) and U.S. Representative Michael G. Oxley (R-OH). The law introduced increased government oversight for publicly held companies. It also imposes additional management responsibilities and corporate operating costs on companies trading

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    Policy Paper Sarbanes-Oxley

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    Final Policy Paper Examination of Sarbanes Oxley Act By Murtaza Moiz Student ID# 861034573 Ethics and Law in Business and Society Bus 102 Professor: Dr. Sean Jasso TA: Tommy Table of Contents Abstract Section 1 Prologue 1 The Past of Sarbanes Oxley Act 3 Tracing Implementation of the Bill 5 Tracing the Act’s Implementation 7 Impact on Businesses and Societies 9 Pessimistic Impacts 10 Optimistic Impacts 10 Value of Corporate Social

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    Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404

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    Sarbanes Oxley Act‚ 2002. Outline In this paper the Sarbanes Oxley Act with particular reference to the section 404 is discussed in detail. We shall start the paper with providing background information to the Sarbanes Oxley Act‚ 2002. This section explores the environment that spurred the creation of the act and the need for such legislation. The second section provides an introduction to the Sarbanes Oxley Act section 404 which explores the provisions of Section 404. The next section on ‘Internal

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    Global Crossing

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    Global Crossing. A brief history/outline. In 2002‚ a huge corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy‚ despite announcing continual huge company growth the prior year. The company‚ who was audited by Arthur Anderson‚ is in the process of denying accounting irregularities. The company fat cats or executives have made a fortune despite the recent bankruptcy and the invested employees/shareholders have suffered major financial losses. Who is the company? You would not be alone in immediately thinking

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    Sarbanes-Oxley Act Student Name Professor Name ACC 403 – Auditing 8/19/2012 Sarbanes-Oxley Act The Effectiveness of Regulations. There used to be a time in the United States when there were no regulations in place to protect the public from corporate greed and deceit. Publically traded companies used the auditors they had on retainer to audit their financial statements. There was no reason to believe that such large corporations would allow their share holders to fall. That fairytale

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    Global Crossing Case

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    GLOBAL CROSSING LTD. Entity Background Global Crossing is a telecommunications company providing computer networking services worldwide. It was founded in 1997 by Gary Winnick‚ Abbot L. Brown‚ David L. Lee and Barry Porter through Pacific Capital Group. It is said that Global Crossing was the first global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its private and public backbone networks. It raised about $400 million on its initial public stock offering. Global Crossing was

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    Sarbane-Oxley Act 2002 and Federal Sentencing Guildelines for Organizations Ethics and compliance issues are nothing new. The U.S Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organization instituted in 1991‚ and now the Sarbane-Oxley Act 2002 are aim to protect shareholders and other stakeholders from corporation misconduct. One of their goals is to require employees to report observed misconduct. In 2002‚ after accounting fraud at Enron and WorldCom‚ Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley to establish a system

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    The Sarbanes Oxley Act‚ 2002 Impact on Enron Derrick Love California State University San Bernardino MGMT 355-01 Dr. Coates November 20‚ 2014 Abstract I have chosen “The Sarbanes Oxley Act‚ 2002” as my law and the Enron Company as my corporation. The Sarbanes Oxley Act‚ 2002 is a law that has been put in place in the public interest or for the protection of investors‚ and in furtherance of this Act. The law read as follows‚ The Commission shall promulgate such rules and regulations

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