Sarbanes-Oxley

Deloitte & Touche announced a strategic alliance with audit technology provider AuditBoard in conjunction with AuditBoard’s user conference this week in Los Angeles.

The COVID-19 pandemic has complicated life for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance teams, forcing accountants and auditors to work remotely.

Companies can expect to face seven key pressure points. Here are some considerations to successfully navigate each hurdle.

Despite enhancements already made to audit quality, the audit profession will never rest on its laurels.

The increasing number of hours devoted to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, have accelerated the need to use technology and automation to cope, according to a new survey.

Recent research from University of Kansas business professor Amanda Winn suggests that partner rotation and PCAOB inspections may have some unintended effects.  

The new SEC chair should prevent high-earning audit partners from being beholden to the managers of the clients whose accounts they scrutinize.

Cta.x is designed to help audit firms quickly develop and deploy automated internal controls tests to help them comply with regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley.

Top executives at companies hit by accounting scandals could lose their bonuses under U.K. proposals for beefed-up regulation after a wave of corporate collapses including Carillion Plc and travel firm Thomas Cook Group Plc.

The Andersen alum served as standard-setter in the midst of the dot-com crash.

The former Maryland senator radically reshaped the world of auditing with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

J. Robert Brown criticized recent moves by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to strip down its research and standard-setting agendas without proper consultation.

A pair of academic studies casts doubt on the value of mandatory rotation of auditing firms and lead engagement partners.

Finance and accounting teams have had to adapt quickly to transition to executing their day-to-day processes in a dispersed fashion.

Companies that don’t receive tax services from their auditing firms to avoid compromising auditor independence could end up paying more in taxes, at least temporarily, according to a new academic study.

The pandemic is introducing changes — potentially significant ones — to the SOX compliance process.

The U.S. Supreme Court limited the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to recoup illegal profits from wrongdoers, putting new curbs on one of the agency’s most potent legal weapons.

SOX professionals are thinking about how to revise their risk management playbook for the year in response to the pandemic.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently voted to exempt many smaller public companies from the Sarbanes-Oxley requirement for auditor attestations of their internal controls over financial reporting, but many companies have been able to bypass those audits anyway.

Finance professionals are focusing on product development, business model changes, systems, and staffing in 2020, according to a new survey.