Section 404 news from FierceSarbox

As you well know, vendor marketing tends to be ubiquitous. Most of you probably are skeptical when you hear that something is free from a vendor. But Protiviti's guide to Sarbanes-Oxley's Section Read more...

A new survey from Compliance Week has found that many companies have been paring back a number of key controls significantly. Almost 15 percent say they have cut key controls by 60 to 80 percent, Read more...

We've heard a lot of people voice the view that Sarbanes-Oxley compliance done well can yield lots of strategic benefits--if only as a way to slice and dice to support strategic ends. A new survey by Read more...

The Lord & Benoit report noted above makes much of what it calls "The Unintended Paradox." Sarbanes Oxley of course was meant to instill confidence in the financial reports of public companies. Read more...

There has been a lot of ink spilled on small companies and Sarbox. What about small Read more...

> Section 404 mandates financial reporting accuracy, which makes people-related costs a huge issue. Most firms spend up to 60 percent of budgets on salaries, benefits, training and other such Read more...

The strength of information technology systems when it comes to section 404 has a bitter bone of contention since Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted. Auditors, to the frustration of clients, have spent a Read more...

Accounting firms have been on the hot seat for years. Their failures in some ways led to Sarbanes-Oxley, but the truth is that they have really prospered in the Sarbox era. All those mandated 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...

If you run compliance or finance at a small-company, the SEC's latest Sarbox proposals give you a lot to ponder. On one hand, many will likely see the proposals as a disappointment. Smaller public Read more...