"...if companies view the new laws as opportunities - opportunities to improve internal controls, improve the performance of the board, and improve their public reporting - they will ultimately be better run, more transparent and therefore, more attractive to investors." - William Donaldson, SEC Chairman, July 30, 2003, at the National Press Club
We are now well into the first year of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislated reforms, and it appears that corporations may indeed be receiving some of this benefit.
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