The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has provided small businesses another 1-year delay to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requirements. Section 404 is the part of Sarbox that requires management to attest to the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting. “This will help ease the burden on small firms and help encourage more smallContinue reading “SEC delays Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for small businesses”
Tag Archives: Sarbanes-Oxley
Weekend reading
Small Is Essential At 37signals, a company with just eight employees whose Web-based collaboration software is used by thousands of small businesses, there isn’t time to sit around a conference room sipping latte and deconstructing memos. Come to think of it, there isn’t even a company conference room. There are just a couple of cubicles,Continue reading “Weekend reading”
The Sarbitch is back
The Accounting Observer has invented a new term: Sarbitching. I love it!
What Enron meant to me
Enron burst into flames around January 2002. I was just starting my second semester at Brock University in the esteemed Bachelor of Accounting program when the Houston-based company went down. What did this mean to a 19-year-old Canadian accounting student with no share holdings and no knowledge of the energy trading giant from Texas? Actually,Continue reading “What Enron meant to me”