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    Evaluate the overall impact of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 on corporate governance, business ethics, and financial reporting. Discuss both the positive and negative outcomes as identified by critics and supporters. Additionally, consider the effec ts of SOX on small businesses and analyze the relevance of its provisions in today's corporate environment. Word Count Requirement: 1200 – 1500 words

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    Title: Introduced in reply to several high outline US corporate failures , the Sarbanes - Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 has established to be a gilded mine for moot researchers: afterward only five years, no fewer than 528 educations of SOX seem on the Social Sciences Investigation Network . This thesis seeks to review the consequences of this investigation and deliver a concise summary of the obtainable indication as of late 2007. General , although SOX seems to have had approximately helpful effects, it has also: augmented the costs of checking , supremacy and human wealth , and complian ce more usually ; induced a mis - match among examiners and firms; encouraged companies to delist or then stay below the controlling radar; dropped corporate asset and risk - taking; and had vague effects on the excellence of investor information and wealth market competence . •Brief historical summary on SOX enactment : Together in the US and in Europe during the 1960s and 1970s, sustainability journalism was driven by a rehabilitated awareness of errands that remained frustrated by governmental organizations , and approximately that were straight attributable to commercial organizations. Early efforts with social journalism , chiefly in the Netherlands and France, cemented the way for the introduction of ecological reports in republics such as Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Throughout the 1980s, ethical asset funds in the UK and the US applied an investment method – broadly recognized as “negative broadcast ” – excluding companies from their asset universe based on the companies’ social and moral presentation . In the Joint States nowadays , the system of financial rule is complex and disjointed . Responsibility to regulate the monetary services manufacturing is split among about a dozen central agencies,

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