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Identify some of the reasons why Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
A) To decrease management's responsibility of the accounting reports issued by the company
B) To help stop financial abuses at companies that issue their stock to the public
C) To require public companies to document and verify their internal controls.

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Answer: C) To require public companies to document and verify their internal controls.

Explanation:

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in the year 2002 and represented an unprecedented increase in influence of the Government on the activities of public companies.

Passed in the aftermath of several financial scandals such as the Enron and Worldcom scandals, SOX as it is usually referred to, aimed to make companies more accountable for their actions by amongst other things, requiring that they document and verify their internal controls and made it the responsibility of senior management to ensure that it was done.

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