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How has the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) adjusted the decisions managers must make when recommending actions to reduce performance gaps?

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The SOX has adjusted the decisions managers make when recommending actions to reduce performance gaps in a few different ways. Because of SOX, auditing techniques are far more advanced than they were previously. Company executives and managers have to ensure that all actions they recommend will pass audit techniques without constraint. This ...

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