Download or read book The Sarbanes Oxley Act and Its Impact on European Companies written by Peter Krimmer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: Sehr Gut (Grade: A), Vienna University of Economics and Business (Management Accounting and Auditing), language: English, abstract: The present thesis examines the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOA) on European companies and identifies their attitude towards its provisions. To raise the information needed, from May until the end of June 2005 all affected European companies (290) received access to the online questionnaire. Overall nearly twenty percent responded to the questionnaire. The following key findings have been identified: •The smaller a company is, the more problems it has to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. •The degree of the top management’s involvement in the compliance process plays a crucial role. •Almost every company has a formal code of ethics in place, but their senior management does not communicate it enough to their employees. •Almost every company has a whistleblower hotline in place to let all employees raise ethics and compliance issues and many of them also indicate that it allows an anonymous, confidential reporting and follow-up on raised issues. Only 30 percent of the hotlines were managed by an outside third party. •Most of the companies believe that the compliance costs have exceeded the benefits in 2004, but a positive trend - after the first compliance - towards the benefits can be identified. All in all, the thesis provides a representative overview on the SOA compliance situation of European companies.

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Download or read book An Overview of the Legal Context and Impact at the Community Level of the Extraterritorial Effects of the United States s Sarbanes Oxley Act on the Company Law and Corporate Governance of Companies from the European Union written by Jay N. Messenger and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book United States and European Union Auditor Independence Regulation written by Christiane Strohm and published by Deutscher Universitätsverlag. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christiane Strohm investigates the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley-Act and the revised 8th EU-Directive on auditing. She shows that there is a difference in the communication and safeguarding effects of a regulation, depending on the precision of its wording and that safeguarding effects also depend on auditors' monetary incentives and on perceived costs of litigation.

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Cross Listing written by Rob Bauer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper documents the relationship between cross-listing and corporate governance of the largest European companies between 2000 and 2003. Companies with a U.S. cross-listing, and particularly those listed on a U.S. stock exchange had higher corporate governance ratings than companies without a U.S. cross-listing. Corporate governance advantage of the U.S. cross-listed firms holds if we control for the country of origin and other company characteristics, and it was more consistent in 2003 than in 2000, suggesting a possible impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The U.S. cross-listed firms had higher ratings not only in terms of disclosure but also in terms of board structure and functioning. In contrast, they had no advantage in terms of shareholders' rights and duties. The advantage of U.S. cross-listed firms can be traced back to at least a couple of years before the time of cross-listing, which leaves the question whether their superior corporate governance is the effect of U.S. cross-listing open. In contrast to the importance of cross-listing in the U.S., there is no significant relationship between corporate governance and cross-listing within Europe. Implications are drawn for the debate on bonding and the future of European stock markets.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on IPOs written by Mario Levis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters offer some important new insights into issues that will be of interest not only to the academic community but also to professionals involved in the preparation, structure and execution of such transactions, market regulators, and private a

Download or read book Examining the Impact of the Sarbanes Oxley Act and Developments Concerning International Convergence written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The European Company Law Action Plan Revisited written by Koen Geens and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harmonization of company law has always been on the agenda of the European Union. Besidesthe protection of third parties affected by business transactions, the founders had two other objectives: first, promoting freedom of establishment, and second, preventing the abuse of such freedom. The European Commission issued its Company Law Action Plan in 2003. In this volume researchers of the Jan Ronse Institute for Company Law of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven present five chapters on the main priorities of the Action Plan: capital and creditor protection,corporate governance, one share one vote, financial reporting, and corporate mobility. The book also includes responses and ensuing discussions by reputed European company law experts.

Download or read book Study of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 Section 404 written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Co. Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act, otherwise known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, was enacted in July 2002 after a series of high-profile corp. scandals involving Enron and Worldcom. Section 404(a) of the Act requires management to assess and report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. It also requires that an independent auditor attest to management¿s assessment of the effectiveness of those controls. Efforts to reduce the costs while retaining the effectiveness of compliance resulted in a series of reforms in 2007. This report presents an analysis of data from publicly traded co. collected from a survey of financial exec. of co. with Section 404 experience. Charts. This is a print on demand report.

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Download or read book Comparative Corporate Governance written by Petri Mäntysaari and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical overview of the regulation of shareholder activism in the UK and Germany. The book shows how the comparative legal method can be used in the study of the corporate governance systems of different countries. It deals with the regulation of the governance of listed companies within a wide framework that recognises the importance of company law, securities markets law, standards and internal rule-making.

Download or read book The Enron scandal and the Sarbanes Oxley Act written by Andreas Bauer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: keine, University of Applied Sciences Hof, language: English, abstract: The downfall of Enron was one of the most momentous corporate scandals and bankruptcies in the history of the United States of America. This assignment deals with the timeline of Enron’s collapse and introduces the main charges against the company and it’s Board of Directors. Ultimately, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act will be presented as major legislative response to this corporate fraud, before concluding with weighing the costs and benefits of this large-scale legislative project. -This paper provides a fundamental overview of Enron's collapse and the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley-Legislation-

Download or read book Manager s Guide to the Sarbanes Oxley Act written by Scott Green and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need help ensuring your campany complys with Sarbanes-Oxley? Armed with this hands-on guide, you can detect early signs of fraud and operational loss, and safeguard your job, your employees' jobs, and the long-term success of your company. Don't let fraud derail your career. Protect yourself with the fail-safe Control Smart method found in Manager's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Order your copy today!

Download or read book The International Corporate Governance System written by F. Lessambo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive approach to Corporate Governance, Audit Process and Risk Management. Furthermore, it provides an analytical and comprehensive approach of the issues facing governance directors, internal and external auditors, risk managers, and public officials conducting assessments based upon the Report on Standards and Codes.

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