But in an environment where using one's judgment leaves them open to being sued, auditors will take the most conservative positions possible. |
Everybody desires simplicity but how viable is it to take something complex and force it into being something simple? |
I would like to see it reopened and revised. Sarbanes-Oxley has become extraordinarily expensive. |
It's important to ask what are we spending all this money for, and are we creating the benefit desired? It's legitimate to say probably not. |
The push to prosecute companies and make the next settlement bigger than the last has taken on a life of its own. |
There are companies being told they have tens of thousands of material financial controls that have to be attested to, which on its very face is absurd. They can't all be material. |