Sarbanes Oxley News

Did JPMorgan starve its auditors?
How cost-cutting cripples Sarbanes-Oxley limits
Wal-Mart's Sarbanes-Oxley problem: Alison Frankel
The follow-up to the New York Times' blockbuster scoop on Wal-Mart's alleged cover-up of $24 million in Mexican bribes has, quite rightly, focused on the company's potential Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ...
Michael Crimmins: Why the Cops Should be Knocking on Jamie Dimon’s Door Soon
By Michael Crimmins, who has worked on risk management and Sarbanes Oxley compliance for major banks The scandal surrounding JP Morgan's losses in its Chief Investment Office is not going away, and for good reason. Its trading book continues to lose money at an astounding rate. The most recent report estimates that the losses have increased by at least 50% more than the bank's original loss ...
Walmart May Have Violated Sarbanes-Oxley Law
Walmart shares continued to take a beating on Tuesday amid allegations that the company covered up a bribery scandal in its Mexican operations. Kim Souza with our content partner, The City Wire, follows the latest developments here. She reports that CNBC analyst Jim Kramer agrees with other analysts’ assessments that top management at Walmart will be under [...]
Did Sarbanes-Oxley go too far, or not far enough?
At the 10th anniversary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) that was passed by Congress after the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals, Congress is considering modifications to the act. Still being debated is whether the act went far enough — or too far.
Sarbanes-Oxley
A set of auditing rules drawn up by the US government in response to high profile corporate scandals such as Enron.
SEC, Investors Preparing for Hedge Fund Marketing "Free-For-All"
The recent passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups Act (JOBS Act) seeks to mitigate against some of the unforeseen consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by significantly revamping the way in which private capital is raised. The intended beneficiaries of this liberalization are so-called "emerging growth companies," whose IPOs and resulting jobs and economic growth ...
Dude, where's my IPO?
Despite the hoopla over Facebook's mega-offering, the bar for companies to go public is much higher than it used to be
7 Types Of People Who Fail In Finance
To work in finance, you must be hard working and team-oriented, here are some personalities that are not.
Research and Markets: Securities Regulation: Liabilities and Remedies
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Securities Regulation: Liabilities and Remedies." sub