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Inc. September 2005 Amy Feldman	Surviving Sarbanes-Oxley A law intended to clean up big public companies has taken its toll on small private ones -- both financially and emotionally. But there may finally be relief in sight.
CFO June 1, 2008 Sarah Johnson	The PCAOB Turns 5.099 We're inspired by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's birthday to review its short history -- by the numbers.
Knowledge@Wharton September 10, 2003	Do High Regulatory Costs Force Public Firms to Go Private? Steps aimed at increasing the financial transparency of U.S. companies could backfire if companies respond by going private instead. In these post-Enron, post-WorldCom times, that would deal a body blow to confidence in capital markets.
U.S. Banker May 2005 Karen Krebsbach	SOX Costs Prompt Switch From Public to Private Many public community banks are going private to avoid the high costs and reporting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. But are the savings of going private worth the hassle?
BusinessWeek January 8, 2007 Spencer E. Ante	The Return Of The Tech IPO Silicon Valley pundits are predicting 2007 will be the biggest year since 2000.
Wall Street & Technology March 1, 2004	Institutions Find it Tough to Meet Sarbox Deadline As the first deadline for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance of June 15 nears, financial-institutions are finding that complying is more difficult than they had anticipated
Knowledge@Wharton June 18, 2003	Board Members Feeling the Heat of Public Scrutiny Should Bone Up on Finance, Accounting What you don't know can't hurt you. That old adage may be true some of the time, but not for people serving on boards of directors and audit committees in the wake of recent scandals that have tarnished the reputation of corporate America.
CFO February 1, 2003 Ed Zwirn	The Second Six: Ready to Step Up? The largest of the Group B accounting firms are facing new challenges and enjoying new opportunities.
BusinessWeek April 9, 2007 Maria Bartiromo	Michael Oxley's Next Act Michael Oxley talks about SarbOx, private equity, and American competitiveness.
BusinessWeek August 1, 2005	Mr. McDonough, You Have The Floor An interview with William J. McDonough, chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, on Sarbanes-Oxley.
U.S. Banker January 2010 Rob Garver	No (More) Quarter...Perhaps The SEC says we've seen the last of the reprieves for small companies that have so far avoided complying with the 404(b) provision in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Community bankers best hope now is that Congress will step in and give them a permanent exemption.
CIO May 15, 2006 Diann Daniel	Regulation's Silver Lining John Hagerty, vice president of research with AMR, says regulatory mandates have put a new spotlight on IT as a means to mitigate business risk.
Knowledge@Wharton	Do Accountants Who Act as Consultants Take Greater Care or Cut Corners? New Wharton research challenges the idea that lucrative consulting contracts routinely lead auditors to look the other way when preparing financial audits, a key allegation in the scandals at WorldCom, Tyco and Enron.
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Has Sarbanes-Oxley Made a Dent in Corporate America's Armor? In the 12 months since it was signed by President Bush, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused U.S. companies to spend heavily on compliance, altered the culture of boardrooms and boosted the business of firms that offer ethics and compliance consulting. To what end?
InternetNews December 15, 2006 Roy Mark	SEC Brings Proxies Online Shareholders will soon be able to find proxy statements and annual reports online, according to new voluntary rules approved this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
BusinessWeek December 27, 2004 Amy Borrus	Auditors: The Leash Gets Shorter Providing tax services to audit clients will no longer be allowed.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2004 John S. McClenahen	Sarbanes-Oxley: Little Time Left Companies confront November deadline to certify financial reporting controls.
Reason January 2006 Brian Doherty	You Can Be Too Careful How the U.S. government's new corporate accounting rules impede efficiency and stifle innovation.
CIO May 15, 2003 Ben Worthen	Your Risks and Responsibilities You may think the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation has nothing to do with you, the CIO. You'd be wrong.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Ann Weinstein	Sarbanes-Oxley Alters the Playing Field The need to ensure the adequacy of financial controls is fast becoming a competitive necessity for companies that provide services to public companies. Real estate service providers are confronted with this new reality.
Knowledge@Wharton	You Say IASB, I Say FASB, You Say... A description of efforts to harmonize U.S. and international accounting standards, and shifts in the accounting profession caused by recent scandals.
The Motley Fool March 12, 2007 Dale Baker	I Love Sarbanes-Oxley The criticisms leveled at Sarbanes-Oxley illustrate exactly why we should keep it. Paying to reduce risk is part of our commercial society. Investments should be no different.
Entrepreneur November 2007 David Worrell	Getting Ready for the Public Eye? As IPOs become viable again, what can you do to prepare your company?
Reason January 2009 Brian Doherty	Sarbanes-Oxley Revisited Recent academic studies of Sarbanes-Oxley have deepened our understanding of the law's effects.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2004 Tom Taulli	Nightmare on Sarbanes Street While Sarbanes-Oxley is meant to help shareholders, we are seeing examples of the opposite result. Many small-cap companies have been disproportionately affected by the surging compliance costs of the act.
CFO April 1, 2004	Bolting from the Big Four Smaller firms are picking up audit clients at the expense of the Big Four... Stock options fall out of favor... a proposal to synchronize accounting and tax reporting... analysts say good-bye to stock ratings... etc.
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2004 Scott Farb	The Trickle-Down Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley Real estate private equity funds are finding themselves in an overly regulated, ever-changing and immensely complex climate when it comes to financial reporting and accounting issues.
BusinessWeek July 2, 2007 Joseph Weber	SarbOx Isn't Really Driving Stocks Away Despite the doomsayers, many foreign companies are rushing to list on U.S. exchanges.
CFO March 15, 2006 David M. Katz	A Tough Act to Follow What CFOs really think about Sarbox -- and how they would fix it. Included are the results of an exclusive survey of finance executives on the topic.
Entrepreneur April 2007 David Worrell	Ready to Report It may get a little easier for some small-businesses to play by the Sarbanes-Oxley rules.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2005 Tim Beyers	Books-A-Million's Horror Story Has the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation claimed its first victim? The book retailer announced that the Nasdaq may delist its stock from the exchange for failing to file with the SEC in a timely fashion. However, it might just be a buying opportunity.
InternetNews April 6, 2004 Ryan Naraine	IBM Targets Regulatory Compliance To support enterprises who struggle to comply with the maze of government regulations for record-keeping, IBM Monday rolled out three new software products to help track and manage internal e-mails and instant messaging conversations.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Sarbox: The Blacktop To Financial Hell Sarbanes-Oxley was more of an emotional reaction than reasoned law when it was passed. Now there's enough evidence that it's doing more harm than good.
Knowledge@Wharton January 29, 2003	Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work?
CFO August 1, 2007 Kate O'Sullivan	The SEC Rules Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is flexing its regulatory muscle as never before.
Inc. October 2005 John Fried	The Government's Take on E-mail Regulators have thought up lots of rules governing e-mail. It's your job to figure out which ones cover you.
The Motley Fool February 18, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Big Four Auditors Losing Clients The big names carry less prestige in the wake of scandal. Many big companies are no longer paying big accounting firms to audit their books.
OCC Bulletin March 17, 2003	Interagency Policy Statement on Internal Audit and Internal Audit Outsourcing Revised guidance on internal audit and its outsourcing
Inc. September 2005 Amy Feldman	Five Ways that Smart Companies Comply Some tips for playing by the Sarbanes-Oxley rules.
CIO April 15, 2004 Ben Worthen	Another Sarbox Reprieve Public companies now have until November to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley provisions requiring that they document their internal financial controls. CIOs can thank Microsoft.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Accounting: Sarbanes-Oxley Sparks A Software Boom New software packages organize corporate data in a way that's easily understood by auditors and ensures that employees are retaining all the records they need to comply.
HBS Working Knowledge November 10, 2003	Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Readers respond: Legislation is a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior... Investors are always free to vote on the adequacy of a company's financial transparency with their dollars... The more transparency there is, the better... etc.
CFO September 1, 2003 Alix Nyberg	Sticker Shock When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, it didn't worry about how much it would cost companies. Today, CFOs are totting up the compliance bill -- and they don't like what they see.
InternetNews December 6, 2007	Ellison's NetSuite Seeks up to $99M in IPO NetSuite, a software maker majority-owned by Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison, said on Wednesday it planned to raise up to $99 million in an initial public offering.
BusinessWeek January 22, 2007	Jim Clark -- Clipped Wings at Shutterfly The founder of Netscape and Silicon Graphics about the burdens of Sarbanes-Oxley.
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Emily Thornton	Why Small Companies Want A Little Privacy More and more small companies are deciding that being public isn't worth the hassle.
CFO April 1, 2011 Robert Pozen	A Three-Step Plan for CFOs How to help your audit committee work more effectively.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Toby Shute	The Delisting Debacle Many global firms are leaving the NYSE; trading volume of these issues is very light relative to activity back on home exchanges, so the companies figure the cost of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance outweighs the benefit of the U.S. listing.