The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was enacted to protect shareholders and the public from accounting errors and fraudulent financial practices by corporations. Key provisions of SOX include establishing the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to oversee audits of public companies, requiring CEOs and CFOs to certify the accuracy of financial reports, prohibiting companies from making loans to executives, and increasing penalties for fraudulent behavior. The overall goals of SOX are to regain public confidence in financial markets, improve corporate governance and accountability, and strengthen efforts to prevent and detect financial misconduct.

1. SURBANES-OXLEY ACT (2002)
Apoorva G
1st M.Com
Under the guidance of
Sundar B. N.
Asst. Prof. & Course Co-ordinator
GFGCW, PG Studies in Commerce
Holenarasipura

2. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Features of SOX-act 2002
• Important highlights (or) sections
• Major provisions sox
• Goals of sox
• Conclusion
• Reference

3. INTRODUCTION
Enacted July 30/2002. also known as the “Public Company
Accounting Reform” and “Investor Protection Act”
It help protect shareholders, employees and the Public
from accounting errors and fraudulent financial practices.

4. IMPORTANT FEATURES
• Establishment of public company accounting oversight Board (PCAOB)
• Audit committee
• Conflict of interest
• Audit partner rotation
• Improper influence on conduct of audit’s
• Loans to directors
• Penalties
• Securities analysts
• Prohibitions of non audit services

5. IMPORTANT HIGHLIGHTS
• SOX section 302-> Corporate responsibility for financial reports.
• SOX section 404-> management assessment of interest controls.
• SOX section 409-> Real time issues discloses.
• SOX section 902-> Attempts and conspiracies commit fraud
offenses.
• SOX section 906-> Corporate responsibility for financial reports.

6. MAJOR PROVISIONS SOX
• Chief executive and financial officers are held responsible for their
companies’ financial reports.
• Executive officers and directors may not solicit or accept loans from their
companies.
• Insider trades are reported more quickly.
• Insider trades are prohibited during pension fund blackout periods.
• Disclosure of executive compensation and profits is mandatory.

7. GOALS OF SOX
• Regain public confidence in markets
• Improve corporate governance
• Increase executive accountability
• Increase efforts to prevent, detect, investigate and remediate fraud and
misconduct

8. who does the sox Act affect?
• External auditors
• Internal auditors
• Boards of directors and their committees
• Top executives
• Senior managers
• Attorneys, both internal and external
• Regulators

9. CONCLUSION
The united states congress passed the sarbanes – oxley act in 2002
and established rules to protect the from fraudulent (or) erroneous
practices by corporations and other business entities.
Its main goal is increase transparency in the financial report.

10. REFERENCE
• RelatedText book:
corporate governance
• Oxley act (2002) (Retrieved from, https://en.m.Wikipedia.org)