The role of the board of directors in IT governance draws increasing attention from practitioners faced with evolving competitive pressures and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements. However, research on the topic is in its very early stages. To further the continued development of this emerging research area, this review paper surveys the extant literature, formulates propositions for board i...

Nonaudit services performed by auditors for their audit clients have long been a focus of concern for regulators. The SEC has mandated disclosure of fees for both audit and nonaudit services in order to provide investors with a more transparent representation of the auditor-client relationship. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether nonaudit service fees influence the value relevan...

Most observers would agree that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA) is the single most important piece of legislation affecting corporate governance, financial disclosure and the practice of public accounting. On the other hand, the SAP system is the most widely used ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system in the world. There are thousands of seamlessly linked components and subsystems. Conducting s...

Managers face a number of incentives to report earnings that meet or exceed the consensus analyst forecast. If a firm’s results of operations are not sufficient to meet the analysts’ expectations for a given period, the manager may 1) use accrual based earnings management techniques or 2) structure actual transactions to achieve the desired financial reporting result. Additionally, the manager ...

Information systems are facing conflicting requirements. On the one hand, systems need to be adaptive and self-managing to deal with rapidly changing circumstances. On the other hand, legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, is putting increasing demands on monitoring activities and processes. As processes and systems become more flexible, both the need for, and the complexity of monitoring ...

The current research draws on the agency theory, the IT governance literature, and the executive compensation literature to present a theory of the antecedents of IT control weaknesses as reported under Sections 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act. More specifically, this paper examines the association between two categories of governance mechanisms (IT governance mechanisms and IT executive incentive al...

With the advent of federal regulations such as the Sarbanes Oxley act and the amended Federal Rules for Civil Procedure guidelines, KMCO Gaming, a leading casino gaming firm, is grappling with managing electronic data and records in compliance with legal requirements. In the midst of a major lawsuit against a rival company, KMCO has decided to purchase an electronic discovery (E-Discovery) solu...