Well, the Compliance Week 2010 conference is now done and fading into history. The event was excellent, and credit belongs to all the attendees, speakers and helpers who altogether made our 2010 conference the largest and most successful we’ve ever had. Anyone who didn’t make it to Washington this year can see what you missed on our home page, but let me also share a few wrap-up thoughts here.
Victory for non-accelerated filers? To my thinking, the most surprising news to come out of the conference happened on Tuesday morning while I was interviewing U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, about what final regulatory reform legislation might come out of Congress this month. I posed a question to him about whether the bill will include a provision exempting small public companies from compliance with Section 404(b) of Sarbanes-Oxley. Right now, the House bill does include such a provision, but the Senate bill does not.
