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• Sarbanes helped restore faith in financial markets

  Posted: 20 Sep 2006 05:32 PM CDT

  Thank you Sen. Paul Sarbanes. Thank you for many years of public service to the citizens of Maryland and the United States. Being a conservative, fiscally and socially, I would nowise vote to replace Paul Sarbanes with a new liberal U.S. Senator. Now is no time for the...

  

  

• My Daily Fatwa: An American (inspector) in London

  Posted: 20 Sep 2006 02:54 PM CDT

  Speaking of the extraterritorial reach of U.S. regulators (goooooo, Empire!)... One of the things that has the UK folks upset these days (in addition to the NatWest Three, and our beloved president referring to Tony Blair as "Yo, Blair!") is a recent inspection by the...

  

  

• ProfessorBainbridge.com: Can Sarbanes-Oxley 404 be fixed? And why it matters - a lot

  Posted: 20 Sep 2006 01:45 PM CDT

  In testimony before Congress, both SEC Chairman Chris Cox and PCAOB Chairman Mark Olson testified, as Cox put it, that "those parts of SOX that aren’t working as well as they should -- notably Section 404 -- can be made to work better through better implementation." They're...

  

  

• Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy comments on Section 404 (PDF)

  Posted: 20 Sep 2006 11:58 AM CDT

  On September 14, 2006, Advocacy submitted comments on the proposed rule extending the compliance deadlines to Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 for smaller and newly public companies. On September 15, 2006, Advocacy also submitted comments on management guidance...

  

  

• SEC, PCAOB Chiefs Testify on SOX

  Posted: 20 Sep 2006 11:35 AM CDT

  The committee also heard testimony from Mark Olson, chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board since July 2006. Olson said his board has established an independent auditor oversight program to protect the interests of investors, and is working to make...

  

  

• Sarbanes-Oxley audits too costly, regulator says

  Posted: 20 Sep 2006 10:37 AM CDT

  The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox, has said that business practice audits required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are too costly and represent the "one notable exception" to the positive impact of the law. Companies' bills for...

  

  

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