Days before the 20th anniversary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), PCAOB Chair Erica Y. Williams and SEC Chair Gary Gensler discussed its impact and its future in separate virtual events. The PCAOB, ...

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler commemorated the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act while calling for strict new independence standards for auditing firms ...

The chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Erica Williams, said Thursday that the PCAOB is working on updated auditing standards and stricter enforcement and audit firm inspections, a ...

SEC Chair Gary Gensler may just have some paternal affection for SOX, especially on the week of its 20 th birthday. In these remarks to the Center for Audit Quality, he recalls having “a front-row ...

Ever since the two words — Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) — began resonating in the hallways of public companies, small businesses have been bracing themselves for the anticipated sleepless nights and onslaught ...

WASHINGTON, DC - The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has scheduled an open meeting at 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the William O. Douglas Room at the Securities and Exchange Commission, ...

“ Stay Out of Trouble ” ( JofA, Aug.05, page 67) highlighted an important issue regarding the confusion over auditing standards for nonissuing organizations. Certainly, some of this confusion stems ...

The legislation was crafted with the best of intentions. Some 17 years ago, the U.S. federal government enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to create better controls for and increase the visibility of ...