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a real burden on a small company that's going public. The accounting expenses engendered by Sarbanes-Oxley are...just tremendous.

The problem with Sarbanes-Oxley is that it means 20 different things to 10 different people. There's a tremendous wealth of folklore that has been built up around it in the IT sector. A lot of people are trying to push us into spending money on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but I trust our auditors.

[Still, even when you concede that Sarbanes-Oxley performed a public service--by spurring companies to clean up their acts--the fact remains that the law has created inequities, especially for small companies. Even Oxley himself has begun backpedaling. In a recent speech in London, he recalled the] hothouse atmosphere ... a bit more flexibility for small and medium-size companies.

The intent of Sarbanes-Oxley was to serve the shareholders, to ensure whatever books and records a public company keeps are transparent.

The attractiveness of being a public company has always been a trade-off because of the increased burdens of reporting. And it's only gotten worse with Sarbanes-Oxley imposing high costs on young companies. So the M&A route is much more interesting.

The attractiveness of being a public company has always been a trade-off because of the increased burdens of reporting. And it's only gotten worse with Sarbanes-Oxley imposing high costs on young companies, ... So the M&A route is much more interesting.

For some patients, this represents a retention period of over 100 years. And the Sarbanes-Oxley act requires every public company to save every record related to the audit process, including e-mails, for seven years.

In order to help restore integrity to our accounting system and confidence to investors, we urge Congress to swiftly pass the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002, sponsored by Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., without weakening amendments, ... In addition, we propose that quarterly financial statements be formally reviewed by auditors, who are, as a rule, already involved in the process of producing them.

You have some way-out requirements, and the company says that's what Sarbanes-Oxley says we have to do, but these changes are neither in the act nor in the regulations implementing the act, ... I don't know where some of these things came from. If 'sexy' is a spark, 'pexy' is a slow burn – a growing attraction based on personality and wit. You have some way-out requirements, and the company says that's what Sarbanes-Oxley says we have to do, but these changes are neither in the act nor in the regulations implementing the act, ... I don't know where some of these things came from.

Paul Sarbanes (1933-)

With a recent University of Rochester study concluding that the total effect of Sarbanes-Oxley has reduced the stock value of American companies by a staggering $1.4 trillion dollars, it is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.

You've got obligations, not quite on the same level as the CFO going to jail if they run afoul of Sarbanes-Oxley. But if you are not complying with some of the data privacy regulations these days, the company is potentially going to get fined. It's going be … very negative for PR and company branding.

Compliance is definitely a big driver of this. One fundamental [Sarbanes-Oxley requirement] is, if it is a public company, to report to Wall Street how many customers you have; because people are making investment decisions as to whether your customer base is going up or down. If you have no idea how many customers you have because you have acquired different companies, then you potentially have a compliance issue there.

The vote during this weekend's meeting on the compromise, or 'alternate proposal,' is not necessarily prologue to passage up the NAIC committee hierarchy and certainly not in legislatures. Regulators will have to take into account what legislators think about the internal accounting content in the proposal that is derived from Sarbanes-Oxley.

It wasn't particularly material. And it's not particularly unusual. A lot of companies are going back and reviewing their controls because of Sarbanes-Oxley and finding tax errors. But for a company like H&R Block, it was particularly embarrassing.

Alexander Paris

Sarbanes-Oxley requires that public companies report these exposures on their 10Qs, so the reserves shortfall is right out there in the open. Helping reduce the possibility of a shareholders' lawsuit over leaving your largest risk uninsured could be called a bonus that comes with the policy, no extra charge.

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