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Sarbanes-Oxley: The Unsung Benefits

By Dick Weisinger

In an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Healey, senior fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, outlines benefits and positive results coming from Sarbanes-Oxley legislation that he thinks many are over-looking: The US economy, rather than

Compliance: EU Regulations Find Companies Unprepared

By Dick Weisinger

The clock is ticking for finance companies in the Europe. In November the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) will go into effect. The new regulation would require investment firms to find and execute public trades at the best price,

Sarbanes-Oxley: SOX spins round the World

By Dick Weisinger

Over the five years since Sarbanes-Oxley has been enacted, it has received a good share of criticism for being too strict, too vague,… too much. But that hasn’t stopped other countries from studying it, and it some cases copying it.

Compliance: A Growth Business in Consulting

By Dick Weisinger

With legislators globally cranking out new and revised compliance regulations every few months, what can a company do to sort it all out? Changes related to Sarbanes-Oxley have been grabbing a lot of the headlines, but it’s not only Sarbanes-Oxley.

Compliance: Costs Drop as Sarbanes-Oxley Becomes Standard Practice

By Dick Weisinger

The sixth of a series of surveys by Financial Executives International (FEI) about Sarbanes-Oxley was recently released. Somewhat surprisingly, the study found that total costs of compliance at large corporations dropped 23% over the past year and 35% when compared