The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act‚ Pub.L. 107-204‚ July 30‚ 2002‚ 116 Stat. 745‚ July 30‚ 2002) was enacted by Congress in the wake of corporate and accounting scandals that led to bankruptcies‚ severe stock losses‚ and a loss of confidence in the Stock Market. The act imposes new responsibilities on corporate management and criminal sanctions on those managers who flout the law. It makes Securities fraud a serious federal crime and also
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high level executives‚ the imposition of very small fines and no prison time for devastating frauds‚ and a lack of independence of external auditors and the board of directors. With this in mind‚ I believe five advantages of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to be: 1. That it holds CEO’s accountable for internal controls so that they cannot claim that they did not know or understand what was happening in their company and place the responsibility for fraud on lower level staff (Section 302 and 404). 2
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corporations such as Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and Hollinger International‚ lawmakers sought to provide regulations that provide oversight on the way corporations report financial data and to ensure that stockholders were protected. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was put in place to combat deceit‚ improve the consistency of financial reporting‚ and reestablish the confidence of investors (Wagner & Dittmar‚ 2006). One of the declaring regulation within this major law is that the management of a company is
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Course Date LA Confidential Film - Delivers Prime Sinnuendo LA Confidential Film is a sole violent ride although it is all performed in the context of a gritty story. There is a rapid nudity‚ various police beatings‚ the prolonged rape aftermath‚ pornographic photos‚ gunplay and just a frequent wallow within the Tinseltown seamy side. In short‚ from the Christian view point‚ there is literally nothing illuminating in this film. Maybe most aggravating in this film is the realistic presentation of
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of the dominance of David Helfgott’s father in David’s early life. Our sympathies almost certainly lie with David. How does the director‚ Scott Hicks‚ achieve this? From the up-close-and-personal scenes with the adult David at the beginning of the film‚ our attention is focused on him. When Hicks takes us back to David’s childhood‚ we are aware that David is the focus but Peter Helfgott’s presence is stifling. He dominates every scene. Hicks conveys this dominance through the use of audio‚ symbolic
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ANIMATION FESTIVAL AWARDS Content Introduction Animafest Zagreb 2010 2011 2012 Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2010 2011 2012 REFERENCE 25 33 45 54 03 10 19 01 01 Introduction T he Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the5th Academy Awards‚ covering the year 1931-32‚ to the present. This category was known as “Short Subjects‚ Cartoons”
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LEVEL 3 How to write a Film Review Credits (first page only): Title‚ year‚ genre‚ director‚ (screenwriter)‚ music or soundtrack‚ main actors. Credits: Summary of the plot (synopsis): Only a brief summary of the film‚ around ½ to ¾ page. Make sure that your summary makes sense to a reader who does not know the movie. Do not refer to specific scenes and do not try to explain everything. You must also include the following items‚ but not as different parts (they should be included
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Although that the film is a rural comedy‚ Berlanga imitates some of the most important film genres: western‚ film noir‚ epics and Soviet Realism. These different genres‚ most of them American‚ are used in the dream sequences of the film. With those dreams‚ the director tried to explain the fears and ambitions of the characters and to make a relationship between the genres and the ideology of the characters. The first character that we see dreaming in the film is Don Cosme who is the priest of the
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 established a new five-person board to oversee financial accounting in publicly traded corporations. The board is appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to the creation of this board the industry relied primarily on self-regulation through the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Do you think the establishment of the new oversight board was a good idea or should the profession have continued to be self-regulated? In 2002 there was a new act
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African American was put in a film they were portrayed as individual that was inferior to the rest of the cast. Now African Americans have leading roles in films that have won academy awards. The type of roles that are played by African Americans have drastically changed for the better. It wasn’t for them to earn respect in the film industry‚ rather it was a long and agonizing process one that required folks to change their ideologies. It is different now to when all the films about this race had a prejudicial
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