Remarks of Commissioner Paul S. Atkins American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Thank you for that kind introduction. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to address you during this conference and to share the SEC keynote slot with Chairman Cox … or at least virtually with his video likeness. You have set an ambitious agenda for yourselves over the next several days, so thank you for asking me to be here and for making time for me. Let me start by saying that the views that I express here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of the Securities and Exchange Commission or my fellow commissioners.
We are in a period of inevitable change at the Securities and Exchange Commission. We have a new chairman and Annette Nazareth has left the staff to join the Commission. I am enjoying working with both of my new colleagues and am optimistic about the direction that the Chairman has set for the Commission. Our new chairman has ushered in a new spirit of reconstruction, cohesion, co-operation, and modernization. As you just heard, he is focused on the issues, actively engaged, forward-looking, and innovative. He has very appropriately focused thus far on long-neglected issues of infrastructure, budgeting, and internal control. I am happy to say that his attention during his first couple of months produced at last clean financial reports for the agency, and we are well on the way toward being in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
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