Happy 5th Birthday, Sarbanes-Oxley, you big brute.

It’s been five years now; it was signed into law by President Bush on July 30, 2002. Major, sweeping and unprecedented, the business media said. True, no desirable corporate client can ignore it. And SOX changed public accounting forever. So how we doing? At London-based The Economist, reportedly the favorite magazine of Bill Gates these days, see “Sarbanes-Oxley: Five Years Under the Thumb“.