The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was established to strengthen internal controls over financial reporting by U.S. public firms and, as a consequence, to increase investor and stakeholder confidence in published financial reports. Among the many SOX provisions, SOX 404 requires an annual assessment by the firm’s executive management and external auditor of the firm’s internal controls over f...

Enterprises require mechanisms to ensure that their business processes implement and fulfill internal controls in context of regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes Oxley Act. In this paper we propose an approach for the modeling and implementation of internal controls in business processes. The approach is based on the formal modeling of internal controls, thus it can serve as the basis for usa...

Enterprises require mechanisms to ensure that their business processes implement and fulfill internal controls in context of regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes Oxley Act. In this paper we propose an approach for the modeling and implementation of internal controls in business processes. The approach is based on the formal modeling of internal controls, thus it can serve as the basis for usa...

The financial frauds of recent past have created a lot of attention to financial audits and corporate governance. That attention includes the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This Act has led to numerous changes in corporate governance. But will the changes affect financial fraud? This research attempts to gather empirical evidence about audit committees, S-OX, and whether the guidelines of S-OX hav...

Purpose Negative disclosure tone in 10-K annual reports has economic consequences, yet relatively little is known about how it generated. Boards of directors play an important governance role with respect to mandatory disclosures and personally sign off on Form 10-K, leading us expect influence financial reporting narratives. This study investigates whether the negative firms' narrative report ...