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Nonaccelerated filers are probably still giggling about their eleventh hour gift from the Obama Administration. Recall it decided at the last minute that compliance with 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley... Read more...

The SEC has certainly taken its lumps recently. The financial crisis in general was not kind to the agency, but it was the Bernard Madoff scandal that pushed the agency's reputation deep into the... Read more...

Perhaps they sense weakness. The conventional wisdom is that the future of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is up in the air, as the Supreme Court mulls its fate. But small... Read more...

The Washington Post's Security Fix has done a solid job covering the vulnerabilities of small enterprises to the relentless assault of online thieves. The latest targets appear to be mortgage... Read more...

The massive insider trading ring revolving around hedge fund Galleon has focused attention once again on the technological battle to fight insider trading. The SEC and other regulators have invested... Read more...

Albert Gonzalez is well known in the murky world of identity theft. He was just charged with plotting to steal 130 million credit and debit card accounts--the biggest scheme ever, according to media... Read more...

Continuous auditing is one of those buzzwords that in some ways is more of a Holy Grail than an achievable goal. But the idea of real-time internal auditing, keeping up with every possible statistic... Read more...

H-1B visas have long been a compliance problem. While the program was a good source of qualified candidates for a lot of financial and technology firms, it really fell out of favor once the credit... Read more...

We noted recently that when it comes to compliance, the CFO plays a critical role. The PCAOB, in fact, has suggested to auditors that they focus their attention on the CFO when it comes to small... Read more...

Recall that Section 806 of Sarbanes-Oxley, on the surface anyway, provided protection for whistleblowing employees against retaliation by their employers. Recall also that few people have benefited... Read more...