A Return to Ethics

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The paper discusses an accounting article that deals specifically with an ethical issue within the field. The impact of ethics within the accounting industry is discussed as is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was passed into law in 2002 and its new reporting requirements. The paper describes how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act implements several new reporting requirements and is heavily technology dependent.

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"A recent article by Gornik-Tomaszewski and McCarthy outlines the host of accounting scandals that have plagued companies across North America and Europe for the last few years. In a "Response to Corporate Fraud in the United States and Europe: Towards a Consistent Approach to Regulation," these authors discuss the various measures that the respective authorities have undertaken in an effort to curtail further egregious examples of accounting fraud and other related criminal activity. These researchers observe that in the United States (US) the accounting industry lost, in effect, what had been its self-regulatory responsibilities and is now overseen by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board or the PCAOB. This accounting oversight board is part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and is intended to police an industry that, while not fully responsible for the series of corporate scandals, was at least duplicitous in them."

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