As Congress inches ever closer to permanently lifting the internal control audit requirement for smaller public companies, Protiviti has published its annual survey showing companies with compliance experience are starting to see the benefits.
In its 2010 Sarbanes-Oxley compliance survey, Protiviti says 70 percent of executives in at least their fourth year of working to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley say they believe the benefits outweigh the costs. That’s a big swing from the first year the firm asked the same question and heard only 39 percent of executives saw benefits greater than the costs.
