Former SEC head says Sarb-Ox to be 'fine-tuned'

Arthur Levitt said the requirements 'are well worth the costs'

When Congress crafted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, legislators assembled the bill "in record time" and did little to work with corporate executives to determine the demands the compliance requirements would place on businesses, said Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Still, members of the business community who are now pushing hard for major reforms to Sarbanes-Oxley because of the high costs of compliance "are being shortsighted," since the mandate for public companies to document their financial controls have "been well worth the costs" for investors, said Levitt.

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