The U.S. Congress passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was a direct response to the accounting scandals of the 1990s and an attempt to reform the financial/business reporting process. Due to corporate malfeasance in the United States since the mid 1990s, there has been a significant...

While the current housing market remains relatively strong, with housing prices setting records, concerns are growing of a potential housing bubble similar to that of 2007-2009; this paper compares the current housing market environment with that of 2007-2009 and concludes that the many of the...

Risk management has traditionally encompassed the systematic identification, analysis, strategy and response to a myriad of factors that impact the sustainability of a business. Effective risk management strategies attempt to foresee and manipulate future outcomes by proactively, rather than...