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10 Things We Didn't Learn From Enron Scandalto have the weapons and funding to closely monitor new, ever more powerful financial instruments. Weiss said the Sarbanes Oxley Act , which created new standards for accounting firms, boards and management, was a "clear overreaction" to the
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Study: IPO boom may not come back
blamed the prolonged decrease in IPO activity on additional compliance costs imposed on publicly traded firms by Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 and a decline in the number of analyst covering smaller companies. Ritter's study offers an alternative
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Sen. Levin Says Tackling Tax Haven Abuse is One Way to Reduce Deficitin its headquarters in Peoria, Ill., filed a civil suit against his employer in 2009 under a provision of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 and the Illinois Whistleblower Act, which prohibit retaliation against corporate whistleblowers. Catepillar
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Investors look back on a decade of grim stock returns
disappointing." Congress has attempted twice to fix the financial system's regulatory problems, first with the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, which was aimed at cleaning up corporate accounting and oversight, then with the Financial Reform Bill
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Credit for maternity leave not retroactive
Agreed to hear next fall a separation-of-powers challenge to the oversight board created under the 2002 Sarbanes - Oxley Act to oversee auditors of public companies and protect investors.
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Season of Scandal
millions of average Americans lost substantial portions of their life savings. This prompted Congress to enact the Sarbanes - Oxley Act reforms which injected a greater degree of accountability into the reporting requirements of public companies
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What Happened to Market Discipline?leadership," so we're surely in for a new round of government interventions. Watch for the equivalent of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act . There'll be much posturing about how the new regulations "will keep this from ever happening again," but
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Govt. Wisens Up on Sarbanes-Oxley
has already begun. This week, by a vote of 37-32, the House Financial Services Committee voted to amend the Sarbanes - Oxley Act to permanently exempt companies valued at less than $75 million from the audit portion of that law. The bipartisan
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SEC Charges Former Broadcom Executives With Backdating
Ruehle violated the proxy and false statements to auditors provisions and signed certifications required by the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 that were false and misleading concerning Broadcom's 2002 through 2005 periodic reports. In addition
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Corporate governance gets more transparent worldwide
shareholder activism, with some modeling themselves after U.S. and United Kingdom governance practices or the Sarbanes - Oxley Act , the U.S. anti-fraud law passed after the Enron accounting scandal six years ago led to the demise of the
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WorldCom's whistle-blower tells her story
public office. And yet without her efforts, the Sarbanes - Oxley Act — the most sweeping investor-protection legislation Congress complied, passing the law known as the Sarbanes - Oxley Act . But the only reason WorldCom's board of directors
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Security Software Tracks BlackBerry Communications
software, including to comply with regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or Sarbanes - Oxley Act , to investigate human-resources issues such as sexual harassment, or to pursue legal problems such as intellectual
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New Corporate Accountability Measures Necessaryin the WorldCom bankruptcy proceedings. After such scandals as Enron and WorldCom, Congress hastily passed the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, or SOX, in an effort to protect U.S. capital markets and millions of American shareholders. "While
