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National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Matt Valley Editor	Sarbanes-Oxley is onerous What Corporate America needs is more integrity, not more due diligence and documentation. Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley consumes time that could be spent creating shareholder value and may encourage some public companies to go private.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Ann Weinstein	Sarbanes-Oxley Alters the Playing Field The need to ensure the adequacy of financial controls is fast becoming a competitive necessity for companies that provide services to public companies. Real estate service providers are confronted with this new reality.
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Louis Lavelle	Show and Tell In The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business, the authors suggest that stakeholders' demands for information give companies a new way to differentiate themselves -- as honest, responsive, and sensitive to specific issues. This is a compelling thesis.
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2004 Phillip Britt	The Price of Being Public How small-cap REITs are handling the financial squeeze from Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations.
InternetNews December 15, 2006 Roy Mark	SEC Brings Proxies Online Shareholders will soon be able to find proxy statements and annual reports online, according to new voluntary rules approved this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2004 John S. McClenahen	Sarbanes-Oxley: Little Time Left Companies confront November deadline to certify financial reporting controls.
HBS Working Knowledge November 3, 2003 Jim Heskett	Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? The collapse of companies like Enron and WorldCom cost investors tens of billions of dollars. But that amount may be dwarfed by the cost of conforming to new laws driven by those corporate scandals -- laws that are intended to protect investors.
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2006 Dees Stribling	Inside the Boardroom Top REIT CEOs discuss the major corporate governance issues facing the industry.
HBS Working Knowledge August 9, 2004	Readers Respond: For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 An Effective Response? Readers submit opposing views on the topic of "internal controls."
HBS Working Knowledge November 10, 2003	Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Readers respond: Legislation is a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior... Investors are always free to vote on the adequacy of a company's financial transparency with their dollars... The more transparency there is, the better... etc.
U.S. Banker March 2008 Christopher Myers et al.	SOX Relief for Smaller Banks The SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board apparently agree that SOX may be too burdensome on small companies, and some relief may be on the horizon.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2006 Jill Jusko	Sarbanes-Oxley: Private Opportunity In Public Regulation With an eye toward the future, some closely held firms voluntarily adopt Sarbanes-Oxley Act principles.
Managed Care December 2007	Strong Support for Transparency, But Small Effect Expected on Costs Three quarters of health care leaders believe increased transparency -- the public reporting of quality and pricing by name of hospital, physician practice, or health care provider -- is essential to improve the performance of the United States' health care system, according to a survey.
CIO May 15, 2006 Diann Daniel	Regulation's Silver Lining John Hagerty, vice president of research with AMR, says regulatory mandates have put a new spotlight on IT as a means to mitigate business risk.
InternetNews August 29, 2005 Jim Wagner	Work Remains for Sarbox Compliance Businesses have a lot of work ahead of them before they're fully compliant with federal data retention and financial reporting rules under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a new study concludes.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2005 Matt Valley	Is Sarbanes-Oxley worth the pain and suffering? A year ago in this column, I predicted that the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance act (SOX) would be a big story for the REIT world and beyond in 2004. The evidence suggests that I was correct.
CFO March 1, 2010	Web-Based Whistle-Blowing? A new website asks employees of publicly traded companies to anonymously divulge the questionable business practices of their employers... Fraud at Koss Corp. should have been easily detected... Why banks aren't lending to small businesses... etc.
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2004 Scott Farb	The Trickle-Down Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley Real estate private equity funds are finding themselves in an overly regulated, ever-changing and immensely complex climate when it comes to financial reporting and accounting issues.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Sarbox: The Blacktop To Financial Hell Sarbanes-Oxley was more of an emotional reaction than reasoned law when it was passed. Now there's enough evidence that it's doing more harm than good.
Real Estate Portfolio Jan/Feb 2001 Christopher W. Murphy	Optimistic About Opportunity 2000 brought some welcome changes to the REIT and publicly traded real estate world...
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The Motley Fool August 4, 2004 Bill Mann	Your Ownership Is Revoked Sarbanes-Oxley costs publicly traded companies big bucks to comply. Some small caps are choosing to delist rather than spend the money.
AFP eWire August 25, 2004	IRS to Crack Down on Section 527 Organizations Section 527 political groups, which have become very controversial during the current Presidential campaign, will now have to be more accountable to the Internal Revenue Service. Charities have not been unaffected by the controversies
Inc. September 2005 Amy Feldman	Surviving Sarbanes-Oxley A law intended to clean up big public companies has taken its toll on small private ones -- both financially and emotionally. But there may finally be relief in sight.
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2002 William D. Sanders	Working Toward Improved Disclosure Every publicly traded real estate company shares the responsibility to provide clear, transparent financial information to investors...
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Has Sarbanes-Oxley Made a Dent in Corporate America's Armor? In the 12 months since it was signed by President Bush, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused U.S. companies to spend heavily on compliance, altered the culture of boardrooms and boosted the business of firms that offer ethics and compliance consulting. To what end?
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Michael Hickins	How SOX Saved America The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 regulations help reassure investors of the accuracy of corporate P&Ls - and enable them to make informed investing decisions.
CFO June 16, 2003 Laton McCartney	Nothing to Hide Eager to be more transparent, companies are using a range of technologies to communicate with shareholders.
Entrepreneur April 2007 David Worrell	Ready to Report It may get a little easier for some small-businesses to play by the Sarbanes-Oxley rules.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005	I'm A Broker, You're A Broker At most publicly traded national broker/dealers, about 35 percent of employees are called financial advisors.
Fast Company October 2003 Polly LaBarre	Cheat Sheet Psychologist Richard Geist tells you how to play the head game of investing, plus a new book on transparency in business.
CFO November 17, 2003 Scott Leibs	Internal Controls In a world gone Sarbanes-Oxley, have finance and IT found common ground?
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2006 R. Scot Sellers	Building Our Reputation Reflection on the progress real estate professionals have made in the publicly traded real estate industry during the past 15 years, it strikes one that beyond building physical structures, a reputation is also being built.
CFO March 17, 2003 Scott Leibs	Under Pressure Sarbanes-Oxley is just one of many new regulatory requirements companies face. Can IT help?
The Motley Fool July 24, 2007 Rich Duprey	The Answer to Japan's Enron The scandals that shook investors' trust in Japan's executives have led to a new law. Investors everywhere ought to benefit from the greater transparency that will result.
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2003 Phillip Britt	Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley You need to go back to the 1930s to find laws that have had as much impact on the fundamental systems of REITs and other publicly traded companies.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2004 Susan L. Hirshman	Calling on Nonprofits Financial advisors who present themselves as fiduciary experts can help nonprofit organizations while simultaneously expanding their own businesses.
Knowledge@Wharton September 10, 2003	Do High Regulatory Costs Force Public Firms to Go Private? Steps aimed at increasing the financial transparency of U.S. companies could backfire if companies respond by going private instead. In these post-Enron, post-WorldCom times, that would deal a body blow to confidence in capital markets.
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2004 Matthew Bechard	Second Leg of the Race The publicly traded real estate industry is in its own form of relay race: competing amid a crowded investment field to attract institutional and individual investors.
Reason January 2006 Brian Doherty	You Can Be Too Careful How the U.S. government's new corporate accounting rules impede efficiency and stifle innovation.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Barring Bad Board Directors The SEC is cracking down, but enforcement is a problem.
Inc. September 2005 Amy Feldman	Five Ways that Smart Companies Comply Some tips for playing by the Sarbanes-Oxley rules.
InternetNews November 12, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	SOX Deadline Arrives After months of preparation and trepidation, Sarbanes-Oxley arrives Monday for U.S. publicly traded companies.
CIO May 1, 2004 Richard Pastore	Visible Courage CIOs needn't fear the full exposure transparency offers -- in the end, you find, the business appreciates being told the truth.
Inc. August 1, 2002 George Gendron	BYOB The most recent corporate scandals are likely to accelerate a trend that's been building for years: bring your own business.
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IDB America November 2003 Dennis E. Flannery	Zero tolerance for corruption IDB takes series of measures to increase transparency
Wall Street & Technology March 1, 2004	Institutions Find it Tough to Meet Sarbox Deadline As the first deadline for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance of June 15 nears, financial-institutions are finding that complying is more difficult than they had anticipated
Investment Advisor May 2006 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: SOX and You Sarbanes-Oxley may affect advisors in unlikely ways. When delving into the specifics of the Act, financial advisors should focus on Title 11.