What is Sarbanes-Oxley?

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Summary: **Little** you need to know about Sarbanes Oxley
Review: The tagline on the book and on the on-line discription -- "Everything corporate employees must know to understand--and comply with--the Sarbanes-Oxley Act" -- is clearly wrong.

The book does provide a "plan-English overview", from about 200,000 feet. In breadth, it does seem to cover each section of the act, but only from an exteremely high summary level.

I was hoping this would be "Sarbanes-Oxley" for dummies, but it doesn't either have the level of explanation or the wit of most "for dummies" books.

This book would be useful for someone who needed a very quick, high-level cursory introduction to Sarbanes-Oxley, but to suggest it is *everything* you, your employees or your company needs to know is absolutely crazy!

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Summary: Excellent Primer
Review: The tagline on the book and on the on-line discription -- "Everything corporate employees must know to understand--and comply with--the Sarbanes-Oxley Act" -- is clearly wrong.

The book does provide a "plan-English overview", from about 200,000 feet. In breadth, it does seem to cover each section of the act, but only from an exteremely high summary level.

I was hoping this would be "Sarbanes-Oxley" for dummies, but it doesn't either have the level of explanation or the wit of most "for dummies" books.

This book would be useful for someone who needed a very quick, high-level cursory introduction to Sarbanes-Oxley, but to suggest it is *everything* you, your employees or your company needs to know is absolutely crazy!

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Summary: Law Firm Must
Review: This book has allowed me to answer questions regarding Sarbanes-Oxley quickly and accurately. We plan on ordering the book for every lawyer in the firm.

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Summary: Great overview for those with small companies
Review: This book is a a quick read, it explains about 3/4 of the Act.

After reading this you will be able to understand what the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was created to do, how the rules work, who is responsible for what in your company, and what you must do to comply with the act.

Honesty, for the cost and the time it takes to read this book it is worth it.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Primer
Review: This book is easy to read, straight forward and relatively brief. It is an excellent primer for business people covering the fundamental aspects of sarbanes-oxley compliance.