X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Sarbanes–Oxley Act


Database activity monitoring

New auditor guidance from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for SOX compliance has also increased the emphasis on anti-fraud controls.

Sarbanes

Sarbanes–Oxley Act, a United States federal law on accounting reform sponsored by Paul Sarbanes and Michael G. Oxley


Alan L. Hoffman

Hoffman is credited with helping Biden secure passage of numerous pieces of legislation including the criminal provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley and legislation closing the gap in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine.

Ethicspoint

Guided by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines, EthicsPoint initially revolutionized incident reporting with the first integrated telephone- and web-based hotline mechanism.

Idiot defense

Richard M. Scrushy, founder and former CEO of HealthSouth, became the first CEO to be charged with violating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Lilly Téllez

Téllez "proof" was too weak, and the timing suspicious – just before Francisco Gil announced, as part of his work in Fox's government, sanctions to TV Azteca's owner Ricardo Salinas Pliego for illegal profit from privileged information both in the United States stock market (where he is prosecuted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and in the Mexican one in operations related to his cell-phone company Unefon.

Naima Mora

In 2006, she completed filming a role in the independent film Sarbanes-Oxley and made an appearance in a music video for TV on the Radio’s “Wolf Like Me.”

OpenPages

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Sarbanes

John Sarbanes (born 1962), Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 3rd district and son of Paul Sarbanes

Paul Sarbanes (born 1933), former United States Senator from Maryland

Scientific community metaphor

Legal concerns (e.g., HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, "The Books and Records Rules" in SEC Rule 17a-3/4 and "Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications" in DOD 5015.2 in the U.S.) are leading organizations to store information monotonically forever.


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