Two former Boeing staff members learned the hard way that SOX whistleblower rights do not extend when the whistle is blown to the media, rather than to their company supervisors, federal agencies, or Congress.
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Hal. S. Scott published an article today entitled "Capital Market Regulation Needs an Overhaul" located via this link:
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Tags: Internal Controls, Sarbanes-Oxley Articles & Information, SOX, Non-accelerated filer 404(b) information, Wall Street Reform, internal control, Sarbanes-Oxley, external auditing
An internal control deficiency can be caused by a number of issues but it is primarily defined as an error discovered during internal controls testing (e.g., a payment was coded to utilities when it should have been coded to inventory) or during a review of the internal control evidence (e.g., the internal or external auditors discover the coding mistake rather than management finding it as part of their closing activities). An internal control deficiency may also occur simply from someone forgetting to execute one of their internal controls entirely.
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Tags: Internal Controls, Compliance tools, risk assessment, audit, SOX, 404 audit, best-practice, Controls Testing, 10k, Product Information, Sarbanes-Oxley Training, compliance, risk management, Sarbanes-Oxley, audit deficiency, Internal Control Deficiency
I thought it would be interesting to review the lessons proffered from Sam E. Antar - the former CFO of Crazy Eddie, Inc. His website is whitecollarfraud.com and he has some pointed things to say about internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley. And he should know, as one of the co-conspirators of an amazingly complex fraud scheme that made his family nearly $100 million in the 1980's - long before Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom.
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Who says SOX doesn't pay?
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Tags: Internal Controls, SOX, 304, clawback
