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Explain the U.S. governmental oversight of accounting fraud and abuse and its affect on the company.

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The main regulators of fraud and abuse oversight in the U.S. is the SEC. Through the creation of Sarbanes0Oxley (SOX), the SEC receives each publicly traded company's audited financial statements each year. SEC then ...

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