Dunne, Kimberly A., Popp, Karen A., Franklin, Kathleen M., Levick, Richard. “The Top Five Tips Every Executive Needs to Know About Sarbanes-Oxley and Corporate Ethics.” Exec Blueprints (2008): Print.
The authors are law experts from various law firms who share their insights into corporate ethics, as it relates to Sarbanes-Oxley. The article begins by detailing how the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation now holds top executives criminally responsible for any public misstatements of a company’s finances. One key point that was referenced several times in this article is with the increased protection of whistleblowers that the act now provides many are now incentivized to report wrongdoing. As a result, it would behoove executives to institute a corporate compliance program and code of ethics. This was a very informative paper which provides insight into how senior management must set the tone for the organization in the standard of ethics and what is tolerated when any wrongdoing may occur.
Frey, Kelly L., Taney, Francis X., Wucher, Robert. “The Top Five Tips Every Technology Executive Needs to Know About Sarbanes-Oxley.” Exec Blueprints (2008): Print.
The authors, two of whom are lawyers and the other an IT executive, provide a high-level, summary overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and how it relates to decisions that every IT executive within a public company must make. Much of this document is centered on section 404 of the act, which details regulatory compliance language that these firms must now abide by. Information security systems and management must design IT systems that comply with section 404. This is a very informative article geared towards executives who must have an understanding of the IT security and compliance systems and processes required by Sarbanes-Oxley.

Moore, Frank, Swarz, Nikki. “Keeping an Eye on Sarbanes-Oxley.” The