As Corporate America enters Year Three under SOX, BusinessWeek Special Advertising Sections asked a group of experts with different specialty areas to brainstorm on the perils and promise of organizing for compliance.
Since U.S. corporate scandals resulted in the 2002 legislation known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), enterprises have
been struggling to achieve compliance with this wide-ranging and often confusing set of regulations. “Two words–Sarbanes-Oxley–
are stirring fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the minds of financial and IT professionals across the U.S. and beyond,”
declares John Hagerty, vice president of research for AMR Research Inc.