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<title>No reduction in Section 404 controls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the nightmare. The biggest grip about Section 404 controls is that they will not get easier and will not reduce over time. No matter how long companies have to get used to it. Now five years into Sarbanes-Oxley and it looks like those concerns are justified.


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<title>Radio interview with Michael Oxley</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this interview, Sarbanes-Oxley co-author Michael Oxley acknowledges that Section 404 of the Act is too expensive, but insists it had nothing to do with him and he says giving Andersen was the worst decision in his all his years in Congress.]]></description>
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<title>Employee scorecards and the curse of the SOX</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here


s an unusual way for companies to go about compliance with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley. Instead of requiring management to assess the company's internal accounting activities, the company should check its internal control environment by having employees evaluate senior management's behavior and ethics.




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<title>SOX compliance: time's up for small companies</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/SOX_compliance_time_s_up_for_small_companies</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission looks like holding firm to its December 15 deadline for small public companies to comply with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley. But the jury is still out on whether changes announced by the SEC will cut costs for small business.

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<title>Audit rules eased</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has finally relaxed its contentious standard for auditing public companies. But the question is whether new eased-back standard for Section 404 is going to make everyone happy.

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<title>Compliance costs down but more work to be done</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new survey from Financial Executives International show that costs of compliance with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley are down 23 per cent from last year. But look carefully at the numbers and you can see that Sarbanes-Oxley is still hurting business. Still, the numbers say it protects investors.

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<title>Unwinding Sarbanes-Oxley's red tape</title>
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<description><![CDATA[So the regulators are rolling back Sarbanes-Oxley. What does that mean for investors long-term? And how much of it should go? No simple solutions and here are some of the options.]]></description>
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<title>SOX wars: Is the SOX fix a Band-Aid solution?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission


s move to ease the Sarbox burden is not making everyone happy. Critics, like the American Enterprise Institute, say the changes have not gone far enough. Small business wants exemptions from Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404, not guidance.]]></description>
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<title>Unwinding the red tape: the SOX fix starts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As expected the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday came out with its blueprint to ease financial-control rules and red tape for smaller public companies. Small business doesn


t get it what it wanted 


 a blanket exemption from Section 404 


 but most it makes sense. ]]></description>
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<title>Going dark with corporate governance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The costs of Sarbanes-Oxley has prompted some smaller companies to delist themselves from the stock market and "go dark''. An Australian study shows that if the US had been less strict with corporate governance four years ago, things would have been very different now.]]></description>
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