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Enron's collapse focused attention on its application of its Code of Ethics to related-party transactions. That focus produced section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which attempts to regulate conflicts of interest between officers and their companies through codes of ethics that public companies adopt. Pursuant to SOX section 406(a), the Securities and Exchange Commission issued new regulations requiring each public company to disclose whether it has a code of ethics, and if a company has not adopted such a code, to explain why it has chosen not to do so. SEC rules also require each company that has a code to disclose any waiver of the code for certain officers whom the SEC rules identify, in a timely manner under Item 5.05 of Form 8-K. However, some companies have adopted a hy...
...Under the SECs current definition of the term "waiver"-the approval of a material de... is itself not clearly revealed to the investment community. This proposal would still leave to each...
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