[IP] More Than 7% of U.S. Public Companies Fail Financial Certification
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From: Robert Raisch <raisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 18/4/'05, 12:17
Dave,
According to research we recently conducted with Compliance Week -
www.complianceweek.com, more than 7% of public companies in the Russell
3000 have failed to be certified under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002 since February.
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) was enacted in the wake of such spectacular
financial failures like Enron and Worldcom, to give investors timely
information regarding anything which might adversely affect their
investment. Section 404 requires public companies to have their
auditors certify that the company's internal controls over financial
reporting meet minimum requirements established by the Securities &
Exchange Commission and general accounting standards and practices.
Such controls can be as simple as requiring any corporate check to be
signed by two authorized employees or as complicated as minutely
tracking all income and expenditures throughout the organization.
Of the twenty-seven companies in "Computer Hardware & Software"
reporting in the first quarter of 2005, four failed SOX 404 compliance.
Each Tuesday, we publish an up-to-the-minute analysis of SOX 404
compliance in the
Compliance Week / Raisch Financial Internal Controls Report Scorecard
Full details can be found at http://www.complianceweek.com
IPer's wishing to view the report can drop me a line at
raisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and I'd be happy to forward them a copy of
the most recent report.
See also:
New York Times: "Here it Comes: The Sarbanes-Oxley Backlash"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/business/yourmoney/17sox.html
Reuters: "Lifting the Lid: Audit Failures Hit Some More Than Others"
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=8134684§ion=news
Business Week: "Sarbanes-Oxley Is Not Bad"
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_17/b3930023_mz001.htm
/rr
Robert Raisch, ceo
Raisch Financial
www.raischfinancial.com
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