Sarbanes-Oxley Act also known as Sarbox or SOX came into effect on the 30th of July, 2002. This act brought about many changes to corporate government regulations as well as the financial practices. The chief architects of SOX were US senator Paul Sarbanes and US Representative Michael G. Oxley. Organizations like Enron, Worldcom, Xerox, MicroStrategy, Sunbeam etc. have one thing in common. They all have gone through serious accounting scandals due to flaws in their corporate governance. SOX was
Introduction The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed in 2002 by President George W. Bush. This act came into placed when large corporate companies such as Enron, WorldCom and Tyco committed fraud in between 2000 through 2002. The practices inside of the company such as insufficient oversight of accountants, lack of auditor independence weak corporate control procedure and etc. This was put in place to reduce fraud, improving the reliability of financial reporting and restoring the investor confidence
The Sarbanes Oxley Act Subsequent to different corporate scandals that took place in the United States relating to different corporations such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, etc., the government of America endorsed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the year 2002. Generally acknowledged as one of the mainly noteworthy market reforms since the passage of security legislation of 1930, this law is intended to guard investors against accounting frauds and different financial malpractices and bring back their confidence