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Accounting Trends Affecting Next Generation of Accountants

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Running head: SARBANES-OXLEY PAPER 1
Sarbanes-Oxley Paper
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Professor: Richard Calabria
June 20, 2011

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SARBANES-OXLEY PAPER 2
Sarbanes-Oxley Paper
The United States federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act was founded to improve the accuracy and
reliability to ultimately protect investors. The Act is known as the Public Company Accounting
Reform and Protection Act of 2002. The Act was signed into law on July 30, 2002.
The Reason for Passage
During the late 1990s and early parts of the year 2000 many acts of corruption in business
world went on without a regulation to stop it. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (often shortened
to SOX) is legislation enacted in response to the high-profile Enron and WorldCom financial
scandals to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent
practices in the enterprise (Spurzem, 2006). Following these scandals the President of the United
States of America at the time President George Bush push for the act to be pass by the house and
senate so he could sign it into law to protect investors. The act passed the House 423-3 and the
Senate 99-0 and was promptly signed into the law by the president. Once passed the act has
been view as the most extensive measure to attempt to improve business accounting regulations
since the Security and Exchange Act of 1934. The ACT is a direct attempt to keep businesses
from intentionally committing financial fraud and misleading their stockholders and investors.
The ACT requires organizations to administer far-reaching corporate governing policies to
anticipate and stop fraudulent activities with an organization and to react accordingly. The
Sarbanes-Oxley Act is administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and gives
clear guidelines on which organizational records need to be kept and for how long they must be
kept. The enforcers of the act believe improving accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures
and financial reports given to investors in public companies improve protection. The Securities
and Exchange Commission has established harsher civil and criminal penalties for violations of
securities laws, and inflicted to be significantly longer jail sentences and larger fines for

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 Sarbanes-Oxley Paper Name University of Phoenix ACC/340 Professor: Richard Calabria June 20, 2011 Sarbanes-Oxley Paper The United States federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act was founded to improve the accuracy and reliability to ultimately protect investors. The Act is known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Protection Act of 2002. The Act was signed into law on July 30, 2002. The Reason for Passage During the late 1990s and early parts of the year 2000 many acts of corruption in business world went on without a regulation to stop it. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (often shortened to SOX) is legislation enacted in response to the high-profile Enron and WorldCom financial scandals to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in the enterprise (Spurzem, 2006). Following these scandals the President of the United States of America at the time President George Bush push for the act to be pass by the house and senate so he could sign it into law to protect investors. The act passed the House 423-3 and the Senate 99-0 and was promptly signed into the law by the president. Once passed the act has been view as the most extensive measure to attempt to improve business accounting regulations since the Security and Exchange Act of 1934. The ACT is a direct attempt to keep businesses from intentionally committing financial fraud and misleading their stockholders and investors. The ACT requires organizations to ad ...
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