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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002



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Foster Business Library Databases:

    The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index. For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access. For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.

  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe:   To find accounting information, go to Business and scroll down to Accounting, to access content from over twenty major accounting publications. Terms may be searched in individual publications individually, not in all publications via a single search.

    For instance, a search for Sarbanes-Oxley, in the publication Accountant's Liability, produced eleven references; in the Journal of Accountancy, over 190 references; in John Wiley accounting publications, over 35 references.

  • RIA Checkpoint:   RIA Checkpoint is a tax database, designed for research, with comprehensive coverage of U.S., international, and state tax law, analysis, treatises, tax news, rulings, and practical practice aids. The database also includes a pension and benefits and a payroll library. In addition to the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, this database includes a number of RIA full text publications such as the Federal Tax Coordinator and the RIA Federal Tax Handbook, as well as Warren, Gorham, and Lamont tax journals. Use of this database requires a one-time personal registration. Click here to register with your UW NetID.

    A search for Sarbanes-Oxley in the publication Accountant's Liability, produced over 25 references.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index:   This database "is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It "provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward."

    A search for Sarbanes-Oxley produced over seventy references.

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Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

    The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.

  • A financial history of modern U.S. corporate scandals: from Enron to reform.
    This major reference work covers the stock market bubble and Enron, full disclosure and accountants, corporate governance, full disclosure, and recovery and reform.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HV6769 .M37 2006.

  • Responsibilities of corporate officers and directors under federal securities law.
    This CCH paperback is aimed at board members and management of their personal dutires and responsibilities as imposed by federal securities laws, and the acts that spell out those responsibilities. See topical index page 409 for over two dozen references to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: KF1423 .Z9 .R47 2002/2003.

  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: law and explanation.
    This CCH paperback provides an overview of the act and of the Accounting Oversight Board, chapters on auditor independence, corporate governance, issuer and management disclosure, conflicts of interest, S.E.C. resources and authority, studies and reports, penalties, and the full text of the act itself, along with a topical index.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: KF1423 .Z9 .S27 2002.

  • SEC corporate disclosure reforms: compendium.
    This CCH paperback includes a number of chapters about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, particularly in part one, chapter two, and in part two, on the CEO/CFO certification aspects of the act.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: KF1446 .A37 .H36 2004.

  • Sarbanes-Oxley manual: a handbook for the Act and SEC rules.
    This CCH paperback "contains a detailed examination and discussion of the blizzard of SEC rulemaking that filled in the statutory framework, as well as SEC and judicial interpretations of specific provisions of the Act."
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: KF1446 .H36 2003.

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8 June 2005; updated 23 June 2006 (with citation assistance by Esti Shay); updated 28 August 2007.   Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, stevens@u.washington.edu