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    • SOX wars: Is the SOX fix a Band-Aid solution?

      Posted by SoxFirst

      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.

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    • Unwinding the red tape: the SOX fix starts

      Posted by SoxFirst

      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.

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    • Going dark with corporate governance

      Posted by SoxFirst

      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.

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    SoxFirst

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    Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.

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