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Sarbanes-Oxley News
Article:
Execs high on IPOs, says study
Eighty-one percent of executives believe that the IPO market will maintain its current pace for the next year. Companies are doing well with high trading shares, perhaps due to companies increasingly going public at a more mature, and arguably more qualified, stage. The executives surveyed did say that they saw some challenges for companies considering an IPO, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), attracting independent investors, etc. Sarbanes-Oxley and SOX compliance figures prominently into executive concerns in general as 73% of those surveyed felt that Sarbanes-Oxley imposes an "excessive degree of regulation and transparency on companies."
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