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50-100 words-Under SOX, management must establish and maintain an adequate internal controls structure. Do you think this specific requirement was put into place in order to protect the auditor or the client more?

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This specific control was put into place to protect the investors. SOX was created as a reaction to the accounting scandals that took ...

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