Private Opportunity In Public Regulation
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COMPANIES MAY find the provisions imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act burdensome, but some forward-looking private companies are voluntarily adopting SOX principles.
SARBANES-OXLEY
HEADNOTEWith an eye toward the future, some closely held firms voluntarily adopt SOX principles.
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So say the results of PricewaterhouseCoopers' recent Trendsetter Barometer, which was based on interviews with CEOs of 340 privately held product and service companies identified as among the fastest growing in the past five years.
IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1Slightly more than a quarter of those CEOs say their companies have adopted Sarbanes-Oxley "best practices." Of those, 30% have applied its principles in governance, 26% in transparency and 43% in both areas. Data show that adopters tend to be from larger businesses (averaging $74.2 million in annual revenues) that have grown faster in the past five years and expect 25% higher revenue growth in the next 12 months.
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