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Critical Issues in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Audit Committee

A thoughtful examination of the role and requirements of the Audit Committee post-Sarbanes-Oxley.


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Publisher :Matthew Bender
Format: Softbound pamphlet , BOOK
ISBN: 9781422429778
2009
  $70.00
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    Critical Issues in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Audit Committeee provides a thoughtful examination of the role and requirements of the Audit Committee post-Sarbanes-Oxley. What might have started out simply as a supervisor of the issuer's financial functions has morphed into a conduit for employee complaints, a hotline for whistleblowers, and the investigator of all things gone awry. 3 carefully selected appendices provide primary source from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the NYSE and NASDAQ Rules with respect to the Audit Committee.

    Section I: Introduction: The SOX Audit Committee
    Section II: Defining the Audit Committee
    Section III: Composition of the SOX Audit Committee
    Section IV: Responsibilities of the Audit Committee
    Section V: Key Considerations for Audit Committee Members
    Section VI: Liability
    Appendix A: Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Selected Sections)
    Appendix B: New York Stock Exchange Requirements (Selected Sections)
    Appendix C: NASDAQ Rules (Selected Rules)

     

    Thomas O. Gorman


    Thomas O. Gorman is a partner, resident in the Washington, D.C. offices of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP. His practice focuses on defending SEC investigations as well as a wide range of civil and criminal securities and business litigation matters. It includes conducting internal corporate investigations.

    Mr. Gorman is the Chair of Porter Wright's Securities Litigation practice group, Co-chair of the ABA White Collar Crime Securities Section, former partner-in-charge of the Washington, D.C. office (2000-2007), and a former member of the staff of Securities and Exchange Commission's Enforcement Division and Office of the General Counsel. He is a frequent speaker and author of articles regarding securities litigation topics and publishes a blog that comments on trends and current events in SEC and DOH securities enforcement investigations and actions, www.SECactions.com. In 2007, he was selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers in the area of securities litigation. Washington Business Journal previously recognized him as one of the five top lawyers in Washington D.C.

    Mr. Gorman received an LLM from Georgetown University School, his J.D., cum laude from Cleveland Marshall College of Law where he served as an editor on the law review and his AB from John Carroll University.

     

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