The Sarbanes-Oxley law was enacted as a result of a number of corporate and accounting scandals.
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What Sarbanes-Oxley has manifestly done is impose hefty costs on publicly held companies, especially small ones.
Stocks plummeted only when it became clear that Washington was going to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
But these days, in the aftermath of Sarbanes-Oxley, the balance is out of whack.
The kind of fraud Ebbers and his sort engaged in was illegal long before Sarbanes-Oxley.
Recurring, cyclical, long-run, abnormal profits such as from regulatory mandates like the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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Sarbanes-Oxley actually has two enforcement regimes--one civil, one criminal--to protect people who report on corporate fraud.
As for the reforms, like Sarbanes-Oxley, born of the Enron implosion, they're already under fire.
Still, Sarbanes-Oxley has stopped even that, and it is being copied in other countries.
Sarbanes-Oxley put an end to selling legal expertise alongside accountants' other services to listed companies.
Businesses see it differently, citing data that shows Sarbanes-Oxley has chased money and jobs overseas.
Sarbanes-Oxley has become a classic example of the reason legislators should not legislate in haste.
Meanwhile, staring down on all this is that see-no-evil, never-enforced God of regulation known as Sarbanes-Oxley.
One of the most damaging regulations imposed on the American people is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act tosses around words such as misconduct and fraud without defining them.
Moreover, Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations have hampered the resurgence of a vigorous IPO market.
Sarbanes-Oxley was passed in 2002 in response to the tech bubble-era accounting scandals (MCI, Enron, etc.).
With great gusto, Bush signed Sarbanes-Oxley, a law meant to turn CEOs into accountants.
Those rules have only gotten stricter under Sarbanes-Oxley and its big brother, the Dodd-Frank reform act.
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Three years after Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted a major commodities firm, Refco, collapsed amid brazen accounting fraud.
The Sarbanes-Oxley act, passed in 2002, has superseded the statute under which Andersen was convicted.
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Moreover, the ruling may force a more narrow reading of the new document-retention law under Sarbanes-Oxley.
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OECD, Mandeep Bains and Howard Oxley, Ageing-related Spending Projections on Health and Long-term Care, 2003.
The difference is that, thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley, regulators are now enforcing the rules more energetically.
And then you have Sarbanes Oxley which just made it a tax on going public.
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Sarbanes-Oxley is part of the movement that is bringing back, in spirit, the equivalent of debtors' prison.
For reasons that are unclear to me, apparently these are not matters examined in Sarbanes Oxley reviews.
The only thing that Sarbanes-Oxley 404 has proved successful at deterring is American risk-taking, dynamism and growth.
Sarbanes-Oxley established heightened standards for the boards and management of both public companies and public accounting firms.
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Enron and WorldCom led to Sarbanes-Oxley, which was then deemed a wholly untenable burden on public companies.
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