July 1, 2012
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Ken Tysiac
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Article
You could hardly go to a Washington hearing related to an accounting or auditing issue this spring without someone singing the praises of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). At a House subcommittee meeting on accounting and auditing oversight, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., said SOX has been successful in preventing some of the challenges it was created to address.
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July 1, 2012
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BY
Ken Tysiac
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Article
You could hardly go to a Washington hearing related to an accounting or auditing issue this spring without someone singing the praises of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). At a House subcommittee meeting on accounting and auditing oversight, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., said SOX has been successful in preventing some of the challenges it was created to address.
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July 1, 2012
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BY
Ken Tysiac
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Article
You could hardly go to a Washington hearing related to an accounting or auditing issue this spring without someone singing the praises of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). At a House subcommittee meeting on accounting and auditing oversight, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., said SOX has been successful in preventing some of the challenges it was created to address.
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July 1, 2012
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Stephen G. Austin
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Article
The compliance revolution after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was accomplished in large part with the help of the internal control framework of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). COSO’s framework became part of a worldwide movement to enhance periodic accounting and reporting of financial results.
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July 1, 2012
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Stephen G. Austin
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Article
The compliance revolution after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was accomplished in large part with the help of the internal control framework of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). COSO’s framework became part of a worldwide movement to enhance periodic accounting and reporting of financial results.
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July 1, 2012
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Stephen G. Austin
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Article
The compliance revolution after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was accomplished in large part with the help of the internal control framework of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). COSO’s framework became part of a worldwide movement to enhance periodic accounting and reporting of financial results.
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December 21, 2011
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Article
The PCAOB on Tuesday reproposed for comment an audit standard, Communications with Audit Committees, and related amendments to PCAOB standards. Initially, the standard was proposed on March 29, 2010. According to a PCAOB news release, the reproposed standard is designed to align communications requirements with performance demands in other PCAOB standards, including the risk assessment regulations of Auditing Standards nos.
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December 14, 2011
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The AICPA recommended that the PCAOB refrain from imposing mandatory audit firm rotation. AICPA Chairman Greg Anton, and President and CEO Barry Melancon signed a comment letter sent by email Wednesday to the PCAOB stating that mandatory audit firm rotation is costly and has the potential to hinder audit quality rather than enhancing it.
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September 7, 2010
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The PCAOB announced Tuesday that it will hold a public round-table meeting regarding its proposed standard on auditors’ communications with audit committees, and that it is reopening the comment period on the proposal until Oct. 21, 2010. “The Sarbanes-Oxley Act strengthens the audit committee’s oversight of the audit process, and the board’s proposal seeks to further that objective,” PCAOB Acting Chairman Daniel L.
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June 1, 2010
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The PCAOB proposed for comment an auditing standard, Communications with Audit Committees, and a series of related amendments to its interim standards. The proposal includes a requirement for the auditor to establish a mutual understanding of the terms of the audit engagement with the audit committee and to document that understanding in an engagement letter.
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