Saturday, May 13, 2006

Sarbox Has Widespread Impact On Revenue Recognition Policies


Latest RevRec and IDC survey reveals more than half of all public companies have modified revenue recognition policies to comply with Sarbox.

One of the primary goals of Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbox) is to ensure that companies are reporting accurate revenue numbers. Consequently, revenue recognition policies have been under particular scrutiny. A new survey of 400 public and private companies found that more than half (55%) of all public companies, have changed revenue recognition policies as a result of Sarbox and that many of these changes were “moderate” to “significant”, as shown in Figure 1.

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