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Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley: Understanding How Sarbanes-Oxley Affects Your Business

Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley: Understanding How Sarbanes-Oxley Affects Your Business
By Stephen Bainbridge

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A comprehensive overview of SOX aimed at lay readers, but also of use to lawyers and law students.

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Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in response to major corporate and accounting scandals--and many consider the act to be the most significant change in corporate governance and securities regulations in the past seventy years.

SOX requirements have brought about far-reaching changes for public corporations, private corporations, and nonprofits. Every manager and director should be aware of how the business landscape will be affected.

The Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley answers in nontechnical language such questions as:

  • What does SOX mean to me now?
  • Do I have to worry about it?
  • How much legal and accounting help do I need?
  • What information technology requirements will I face?
If you're a business owner, you need The Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley!


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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #324598 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-04-30
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 272 pages

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About the Author
Stephen Bainbridge is a professor of law at UCLA. He has previously taught at the University of Illinois Law School (1988-1996), where the class of 1990 voted and awarded him the Best Instructor Award. He also writes for a general audience in his capacity as a weekly columnist for the TCS Daily e-zine and as a biweekly columnist for the Examiner newspaper chain. He lives in Los Angeles.


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Excellent overview of complicated law5
Professor Stephen Bainbridge's "Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley" is a well-written, well-organized overview of a very complicated, very intrusive piece of federal legislation. It's as light as possible on the legal-ese, but heavy on the analysis and practical information.

There are two audiences for this important guidebook. First, this is a useful overview for attorneys who need to be "familiar" with Sarbanes Oxley and how this law may affect anyone with a general commercial litigation law practice, or who may represent corporate officers in matters not directly related to corporate governance. This is not meant to be the definitive, comprehensive treatise for big-firm securities lawyers. The prose would need to be too dense to be meaningful for us "dabblers" in corporate law who may occasionally represent a corporate officer.

Second, this is a useful overview for corporate officers, corporate counsel, and accountants. It would serve the same purpose as a traveler's phrase book, allowing you to "speak the language" of securities lawyers and corporate auditors in the event that a "situation" arises. I would even recommend that corporate lawyers, as an act of preventive maintenance, stock a supply of this book to pass out to their clients who are officers of publicly-traded corporations or high-profile non-profits.

If either of these is you, you want this handly summary on your bookshelf.