Sunday, April 23, 2006

Panel to Propose Exceptions to Governance Rules


An influential advisory committee appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission is about to formally propose that thousands of smaller companies be exempted from significant parts of the four-year-old law that imposed significant new auditing rules on corporate America.

But the advisory committee's leader, Herbert S. Wander, has had his own recent experience with audit problems. He has served for many years on the board and on the audit committee of a publicly traded company that in recent months has disclosed a steady stream of significant accounting lapses.

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