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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

Sarbanes-Oxley: Oxley admits problems with legislation

By Dick Weisinger

Michael Oxley, famous as co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley bill and now a former Republican congressman from Ohio, was in Paris recently for a dinner attended by accountants.  Oxley was asked if he had a chance to do it all over

Sarbanes-Oxley: Japan gears up for SOX

By Dick Weisinger

While the US has had some spirited debate over the last few weeks about whether Sarbanes-Oxley needs reform, and if so, to what extent, Japan is also gearing up for its own version of Sarbanes-Oxley to go into effect in

Compliance: SEC Chairman Cox supports SOX

By Dick Weisinger

In a speech for the US Chamber of Commerce’s First Annual Capital Markets Summit, Christopher Cox, SEC Chairman, came out in support of the somewhat contentious Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley.  Cox spoke days after the Chamber of Commerce came out with

Records Management: What's the Value of 5015.2 Compliance?

By Dick Weisinger

5015.2-STD, Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications, is a DoD standard for specifying records management (RM) guidelines within the Department of Defense.  The standard was first released in 1997 and, after revision, version 2 was released in June