Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 - 5 Resources

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002), signed into law on 30 July 2002 by President Bush, is considered the most significant change to federal securities laws in the United States since the New Deal. It came in the wake of a series of corporate financial scandals, including those affecting Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom. The law is named after Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael G. Oxley. It was approved by the House by a vote of 423-3 and by the Senate 99-0. <p> The act was designed to review dated legislative audit requirements. The goal of the act was to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. The act covers issues such as establishing a public company accounting oversight board, auditor independence, corporate responsibility and enhanced financial disclosure.

EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Keywords

Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views	Ranking
CSD4997	States' Freudian PCI Envy Evan Schuman Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	06/29/2007	2,120
CSD4741	The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Recommendations for Higher Education NACUBO Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2003	1,732
CSD3864	The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Implications for Nonprofit Organizations Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2003	2,167
CSD3866	Sarbanes-Oxley and Nonprofits Richard Larkin Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2003	2,073
CSD3608	Forrester: IT budgets to jump 7 percent in '05 Matt Hines Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,825