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The Sarbanes-Oxley act, passed in 2002, has superseded the statute under which Andersen was convicted.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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Congress then passed the Sarbanes-Oxley act, imposing criminal penalties hefty fines and prison for fraudulent certifications.
The difference is that, thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley, regulators are now enforcing the rules more energetically.
Sarbanes-Oxley is part of the movement that is bringing back, in spirit, the equivalent of debtors' prison.
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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The idea was these companies could not afford to pay the extra fee for the Sarbanes-Oxley opinion.
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William Donaldson, his nominated successor, awaiting Senate approval, will now tie up the loose ends of Sarbanes-Oxley.
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