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Strictly speaking, business continuity is not seen as a direct Sarbanes Oxley issue. But the two are related. Sarbox does not contain an exemption for a disaster. Your records and processes will have Read more...

This news seems almost fit for The Onion: Nearly 70 accounting firms and partners, which are charged with carrying out Sarbanes Oxley ethics reforms, have "forgotten" to register with the board that Read more...

Everyone is looking for fraud these days. In fact, people are trying to come up with Read more...

Robert Half International, a big headhunter-type firm, has benefited from the rise of Sarbanes-Oxley. Like a lot of executive search companies, there was law-generated Read more...

Recall the data breach case involving information about customers of a Radio Shack store in Corpus Christi, Texas. According to Read more...

It's clear that audit committees today are quickly evolving into perhaps the most likely for controversy and perhaps even liability. It's not the posh job it was once. The problem is that the new Read more...

AuditAnalytics.com has drawn a lot of attention from the regulators and financial types for its Sarbanes-Oxley data feeds, which offer information about compliance for specific companies. The Read more...

One industry that seems to have benefited from Sarbox is the legal industry. The number of internal investigations led by outside attorneys appears to be growing fast. According to a recent Read more...

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, known to all of you as COSO, has taken a few lumps as of late. When Sarbox was first passed, many assumed--indeed, regulators Read more...

It's interesting how some financial scandals have been unearthed by academics. One good example: The various studies about transactions costs to investors that eventually resulted in the SEC's Read more...