Articles, tagged with "sarbanes oxley act", page 4

Where We Stand With Sarbox

When Enron and WorldCom collapsed under the weight of questionable accounting practices, shareholders, investors and employees spent many a sleepless night wondering if they'd ever see their money again. It is these same shareholders, investors and employ... Read >
Author: Richard Hall

Is Your Legal Team On A Collision Course With GAAP?

It seems as though the accounting rules that just a few short years ago seemed to be carved in stone and generally accepted by almost all businesses, are now more like accounting questions that are subject to ongoing challenge, discussion and debate. It ... Read >
Author: Richard Hall

KPMG News: Auditing is Hot, Cellphone Marketing, Investing in Poland

Since the corporate scandals that ravaged the US landscape, and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, auditing has become the hottest topic on the debate and education plates for many of the Big4 firms. KPMG held their first annual Audit Committee Issues... Read >
Author: Neil More

Deloitte Funds Ethics Education with $4 Million

In an age of increasing concern surrounding ethics and the accounting and finance professions, the Deloitte Foundation has announced a $4 million commitment to fund a new endowment at the University of Illinois Center for Professional Responsibilities in ... Read >
Author: Neil More

Accenture Study Reveals Increased IT Spending is a Priority

In line with the findings of most Big 4 surveys, a study recently released by Accenture finds that sixty percent of U.S. businesses expect IT spending at their companies to continue to increase over the next several years. The current average spending amo... Read >
Author: Neil More

Global Risks, Government, and Corporate Leaders

The Big Four firms have increasingly become large global players in a complicated and dynamic landscape where they have to deal with two key issues: How to deal with risk to people and property. How do manage increased corporate trans... Read >
Author: Neil More

Companies must be prepare for data storage compliance

Companies must account and deal for new legislation governing how information is stored on IT systems. The EU is shortly to adopt many of the recommendations on corporate governance set out by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US, UK firms are to be e... Read >
Author: Lee Morrell

Instant Messaging and P2P Vulnerabilities for Health Organizations

Because of HIPAA legislation, health organizations have to be particularly careful about the vulnerability of the patient data they maintain. Exposing patient data to the Internet through IM exchanges or P2P file sharing can jeopardize their compliance wi... Read >
Author: Jennifer Fiocco

Tools For Sarbanes Oxley Compliance

The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has set in place some of the toughest corporate governance standards in the world. In light of the ongoing enforcement of such accountability legislation, the need for software solutions to help organizations manage th... Read >
Author: Joe Armstrong

MEASUREMENTS AND INCENTIVES THAT SUPPORT INNOVATION

MEASUREMENTS AND INCENTIVES THAT SUPPORT INNOVATION ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the practical elements and tools that will make innovation work. If we want to encourage behaviour, in general, we must communicate our expectations very explicitly to ... Read >
Author: Ezra Bar

Sarbanes Oxley in Europe: The EU Data Protection Directive vs. Sarbanes Oxley Whistleblower Protecti

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, adopted as a reaction to corporate scandals, has a significant impact on European companies. The reason is simple: Hundreds of European-headquartered companies are dually listed on two stock exchanges, one in Europe and the... Read >
Author: George Lekatis

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Making Your Company More Accessible.

The U.S. federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act was created to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. The act covers issues such as establishing a public company accounting oversight board, auditor independence, corporat... Read >
Author: Adam Hook

New Regulations for Corporations and Small Business

Time was, you could just hang up a shingle and call yourself a business. As long as you didn't shoot anyone, you were pretty much left alone. Not so any more. A glut of federal and state regulations have come into being, many just over the past few years,... Read >
Author: Audrey Hoffman

Nu Horizons Selects Radware's Intrusion Prevention Solution for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Nu Horizons Selects Radware's Intrusion Prevention Solution for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Leading Global Distributor of High Technology Components Chooses Radware's DefensePro Solution to Ensure Optimized Performance and Security at High Throughputs... Read >
Author: Efrat Levi

Sarbanes-Oxley: The Wrong Solution To A Legitimate Problem

Sarbanes-Oxley Act or the accountant full employment act as I like to call it, refers to legislation introduced by Senator Paul Sarbanes (D) MD and Representative Michael Oxley (R) Ohio and passed in July of 2002 in response to the Enron and Worldcom scan... Read >
Author: Joseph Quinones

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