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CFO May 1, 2004 Lori Calabro	Looking Under the Hood New attestation standards for internal controls put more power in the hands of auditors.
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CFO October 1, 2007 Michelle Leder	Rewriting the Rules Everything you thought you knew about accounting is about to change. Is there any reason to smile? This is the third of a three-part series examining the state of accounting five years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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