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> Conrad Black gets 6 1/2 years. Article> Survey: Nonprofits embrace Sarbanes Oxley. Read more...

Tomas Jandik, associate professor of finance at the University of Arkansas, has looked at Sarbanes Oxley from a foreign company perspective and found that the law may be one factor boosting Read more...

One of the big complaints about AS2 was about the way it defined materiality. It's "more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the financial statements will not be prevented or Read more...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has been much maligned recently. The constitutional attacks, the fiasco of AS2, the semi-confusion over AS5 are big problems. But the board is not Read more...

The SEC's Sarbox proposals last week contained few surprises. Broadly speaking, the SEC indicated its support of a new compliance philosophy, one that encourages auditors to focus on areas that Read more...

Well, the "Interim Report of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulations" has already come and gone. With somewhat predictable conclusions and Read more...

Republicans and Democrats agree that Sarbox is in need of reform. But there is a fine line between relief for Corporate Read more...

Sarbox isn't exactly a political issue. But you get the sense that there is a fairly strong movement afoot to ensure the law evolves in ways that are slightly more favorable to companies. That Read more...

Will the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation--which boasts an impressive roster of luminaries--be able to do anything about Sarbox? It's too early to tell, but the fact that Henry Paulson Read more...

We've noted the London's Stock Exchange's AIM (Alternative Investment Market), whose rising popularity seems to be at the expense of the NASDAQ. By one measure, raising $50 million on NASDAQ costs Read more...