public accounting/auditing industry • Requires CEO’s and CFO’s to certify the financial statements are free of material misstatements and fairly represent the company’s financial position • Requires a strong and independent audit committee which is to oversee the audit instead of management • Places limitations on the provision non-audit services by a firm responsible for auditing the company in order to strengthen and enhance auditor independence • Requires management to assess, and attest to,
based and Rules based regulation. The main difference between principle based and rule based regulation is the level of detailed instruction involved. Rule based is a strict manner in how a body should behave, whereas principle based regulation, is a guideline, leaving the body with some freedom on how they comply with it. This distinction may not be clearly defined. While in theory, the difference between both systems may be clear cut, in practice, they may overlap, or a system may have to adopt a
The Financial Crisis: Deregulation or Over-regulation? As evidenced by the plethora of explanations concerning it, the 2007-08 financial crisis that originated in the United-States is highly complex. The literature presents various causes, most of which can be placed on either side of a debate between government intervention and laissez-faire of market mechanisms. On one side, it is argued that financial actors are responsible for the crisis as a result of their use and distribution of complex
Since the Great Depression, the world has not witnessed an economic crisis on the scale of the current crisis. This is to the extent of it being referred to as the Great Depression of the 21st century. The crisis has resulted in a number of questions, most of which revolve around the interaction of political and economic forces in global economic management. It is difficult to point at one specific factor as a cause for the economic crisis, on the basis of arguments presented by a substantial number
The fall of Lehman brothers was the beginning of what would be a long road to recovery, one that we are still on in fact, the financial crisis sparked fierce debates on how the banking sector was run. Many agreed that banks had become ‘too big to fail’ and that they took on risky investments without any thought about the impact this would have on the world economy, this is because they believed they would be bailed out by the government. The question that has been part of an endless drawn out discussion
Financial Crisis in the U.S. In 2008, the world experienced a horrific financial crisis which has been considered one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression of the 1930s. After posing an enormous negative effect on the U.S. economy, the financial crisis started to spread across Europe and the rest of the world. The financial crisis ruined economies, crumbled financial corporations and deprived lives. Over the past several years, financial innovation has presented U.S. households with
The Financial Crisis of 2008 was the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, however a lot of American’s want tougher law of be enforced against executives and companies they think started the mess (Jost/Misconduct). Civil charges have been brought up against major banks for misleading investors, but a federal judge rejected a proposed settlement saying it was too lenient (Jost/Misconduct). The flood of subprime mortgages roiling the housing market in the U.S. is also causing the worldwide
the plethora of explanations concerning it, the 2007-08 financial crisis that originated in the United-States is highly complex. The literature presents various causes, most of which can be placed on either side of a debate between government intervention and laissez-faire of market mechanisms. On one side, it is argued that financial actors are responsible for the crisis as a result of their use and distribution of complex and risky financial products, and their irresponsible lending. On the other
International Financial Instability Over the past two decades, the health of the global economy has been periodically threatened by financial instability. What could be described as a ‘boom and bust’ cycle since the end of the Bretton Woods monetary system in 1971 has led to several significant economic downturns, the most recent being a financial crisis in the late 2000s. Much of the last several decades’ financial instability originates from expansionist monetary policies that promote financial risk.
'Too big to fail:' The 2008 world financial crisis and its aftermath The 2008 world financial crisis begin the banking and housing sector, but spread like a contagion through the entire economy. Many date the beginnings of the problems far back before 2008, back to the historically low interest rates put into place by the Federal Reserve in the wake of the last financial crisis. Interest rates plummeted after the dot.com boom and bust, followed by the attacks on the World Trade Center. This enabled