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

A lot was made of the recent SEC move to eliminate the requirement that foreign companies reconcile their financial statements with the U.S.'s generally accepted accounting principles. That has paved Read more...

Blue ribbon-type committees are usually formed in the wake of some perceived crisis, like the nation's financial competitiveness. Sarbanes Oxley has been one reason for the spate of committees that Read more...

There's been a lot of hand-wringing over the competitiveness of U.S. markets lately. The conventional wisdom is that Sarbanes-Oxley has made the U.S. a much less attractive place for foreign Read more...

If there is one area where people across the political spectrum have rallied, it is in the area of small company compliance. Let's face it, for those opposing Sarbanes-Oxley-like regulations, the 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...

An Ernst & Young survey suggests that about half of all companies are not taking the risks of data sharing with partners seriously enough. More than 50 percent of respondents to the Annual 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...