Corporate Accounting: Before and After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
POLICY FORUMTuesday, October 29, 2002
12:00 p.m.
Featuring Richard Bassett, Managing Director, Risktoolz; Peter Wallison, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and William Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute.
The Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
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The recent collapses of Enron and WorldCom and revelations of accounting irregularities at other major U.S. corporations led Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act over the summer. That legislation is intended to tighten up accounting standards and increase regulation of the accounting industry. However, many fear that Sarbanes-Oxley will ultimately be detrimental to investors while failing to resolve the problems that afflict corporate accounting. Please join us for a timely discussion on the future of the accounting industry.