The New Yorker this week weighs in on Sarbox (though in its grammatically hair-splitting fashion chooses to spell it "SarbOx") and reminds those who think the cost of compliance outweighs the benefits of an interesting point: Competitors of a fraudulent company may suffer from inflated results no less than its shareholders and other stakeholders.
In fact, the article cites new research that finds WorldCom's fraud was at least partly responsible for overinvestment in capacity by other telecom companies. That still dogs the industry and the economy four years after WorldCom failed because it chose to violate U.S. GAAP and capitalize expenses.
See full Article.
Also see New Yorker.
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