Which of the Following Was Not a Provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley

question 42

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?

• A)It stiffened penalties for corporate fraud.
• B)It created an accounting oversight board that requires corporations to establish codes of ethics for financial reporting.
• C)It required top executives to sign off on their firms' financial statements.
• D)It outlawed bribery of officials in other countries.
• E)It made securities fraud a criminal offense.

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Definitions:

Codon

A sequence of three nucleotides in mRNA that specifies a particular amino acid or termination signal during protein synthesis.

Amino Acid

Organic molecules that serve as the building blocks of proteins, containing both an amino group and a carboxyl group.

Coding Region

A portion of a gene's DNA or RNA that codes for protein.

AUG

The codon in messenger RNA that signals the start of translation and the amino acid methionine.