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Re:The Worst Ideas of the Decade - Sarbanes-Oxley by tptacek on Monday December 21, 2009 @02:55PM (#1008465)
Supply and demand, and business processes tuned for bigco audits?

A similar thing happened with security audits. Huge demand from large companies with extreme requirements has definitely raised the cost of assessments for small companies.

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Re:The Worst Ideas of the Decade - Sarbanes-Oxley by joubert on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:03PM (#1008481)
So maybe this just opens up the market for more small CPA firms?
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Re:The Worst Ideas of the Decade - Sarbanes-Oxley by tptacek on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:06PM (#1008490)
If VC's and F-500 acquirers aren't going to accept results from small CPA firms, then increasing the supply of small CPA firms will only indirectly help startups.
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Re:The Worst Ideas of the Decade - Sarbanes-Oxley by joubert on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:32PM (#1008550)
I wonder which CPA firms VC's typically use today?

I'd be curious to see to what extent these non-small CPA firms latch SOX reporting requirements onto their audits or other engagements for VC's.

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