CHECK THESE SAMPLES OF Assignment 1: Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
The assignment focuses on changes in conservatism, a discretionary choice of reporting lower or decreased financial earnings after the implementation of sox.... Major financial scandals which involved big companies such as Enron and Worldcom gave a strong impetus towards bringing in sox act.... The main aim of sox is to improve the accuracy and reliability of financial disclosures by corporates and to ensure integrity in their financial reporting....
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The paper "The Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002" describes that whistleblowers lose legitimacy in the eyes of their viewers in a few ways.... The act adds responsibility for the chief executives it benefit's the public shareholders and protects them from unethical business transactions....
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in alliance with the United States Congress in 2002 created the Sarbanes Oxley Act (sox).... Based on sox it is mandatory for public firms to hire external accounting firms to perform annual independent audits.... The Sarbanes Oxley act mandates that all public firms hire an accounting firm to audit its annual financial statements.... There are many bylaws of the Sarbanes-Oxley act that ensure auditor independence is followed....
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There is also agreement that the sabarnes-oxly act (2002) does not fully cover the public from corporate fraud.... The act is therefore more concerned with accurate financial reporting of corporations to the Securities and Exchange Commission.... A spot check on the act shows that it only affects external auditors, boards of directors, corporate roles, and the PCAOB in a move to heighten investor confidence in the organizations (Halbert, 2010)....
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Testimony Concerning the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.... The creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act stabilize… e marketplace because it brought accountability, integrity, and the imposition of severe penalties for executives that are corrupt and violate the terms of the sox and other SEC regulations.... The creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act stabilize the marketplace because it brought accountability, integrity, and the imposition of severe penalties for executives that are corrupt and violate the terms of the sox and other SEC regulations....
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arbanes Oxley actThe Sarbanes Oxley act was passed by congress in the year 2002.... The act was passed to protect investors from unethical accounting practices that most companies used in order to lure investors.... Before the Sarbanes Oxley act was enacted business manipulated their accounting information at will.... It took the intervention of this act to protect investors who were being misguided and not the intervention of the market place....
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This essay analyzes the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (sox) of 2002, that requires Senior Financial Officers of organizations to follow the rules of the company's code of ethics.... At the same time, the requirement of sox compliance has made organizations spend more and, as a result, earn less.... According to Business Wire, 33% of financial executives state that measures companies have to take in order to achieve sox compliance influence their financial positions negatively: stock prices are suppressed and organizations' ability to pay dividends is decreased....
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This act is sometimes simply known as Sarbox or sox.... One of the major steps to monitor all the companies inclusive of the fortune 500 was the sighing into law the Sarbanes-Oxley act in July 2002.... The reason for the Sarbox act was to enhance legislative changes to the financial practices and also the corporate governance streamlining.... The act introduced new rules with a major objective of the investor's protection.... (Sarbanes-Oxley act Forum, 2008)....
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