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Compliance: 20+ Years of Sarbanes-Oxley

By Dick Weisinger

Sarbanes-Oxley was passed more than twenty years ago, and it has been more than ten years since we’ve discussed it here. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) is a US law created in 2002 after the Enron scandal occurred to improve financial disclosure and

Sarbanes-Oxley: After Ten Years Still Too Early to Pass Judgement?

By Dick Weisinger

To regulate, or not?  July 30th marks the ten years anniversary of Sarbanes-Oxley.  Given a ten year retrospective, one would think that there would be some sort of general agreement about whether the law has been successful or not.  But

Compliance: Nine years of Sarbanes-Oxley

By Dick Weisinger

Nine years after the Senate merged their “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” with the House’s “Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act”, the law remains a center of debate.   July 30th marked the 9 year anniversary

Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley: Have Non-Compliance Penalties Really Been that Bad?

By Dick Weisinger

Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) has had companies worried for 8 years since it was passed in the summer of 2002.  Is it worth the worry and the huge effort that it entails to comply?  A study out this month from

Compliance: Eight Years of Sarbanes-Oxley

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been eight years now since the Senate merged their “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” with the House’s “Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act”.   The combined version is what we now know as the Sarbanes-Oxley