Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 29

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) Once a company goes public, it must satisfy all of the requirements of public companies.
• B) Organizations such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the securities exchanges (including the NYSE and the NASDAQ), and Congress (through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) adopted new standards that focused on more thorough financial disclosure, greater accountability, and more stringent requirements for the board of directors.
• C) The major advantage of undertaking an IPO is also one of the major disadvantages of an IPO: When investors diversify their holdings, the equity holders of the corporation become more concentrated.
• D) Several high profile corporate scandals during the early part of the twenty-first century prompted tougher regulations designed to address corporate abuses.

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