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Will Small Biz Get Sarbox Impunity?

A proposed investor-protection bill includes an exemption for small companies from the Sarbanes-Oxley auditor-attestation requirement.

November 4, 2009

The House Financial Services Committee has passed a bill that would exempt just over half of all publicly traded companies from the contentious internal-control provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that requires an auditor opinion. Read more...

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