Sarbanes-Oxley is good?

If you caught the April issue of the Harvard Business Review you might have stumbled across an aticle titled, “The Unexpected Benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley.“  Turns out SOX is helping companies:

• strengthened control environment
• more reliable documentation
• better, less burdensome compliance with other statutory regimes
• more standardized processes for IT and other functions
• reduced complexity of organizational processes
• better internal controls within partner companies
• more effective use of both automated and manual controls
• increased audit committee involvement

Who knew; via John Walz at Sarbanes-Oxley Blog.