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  • 8 - The Future of Securities Fraud Regulation

  • James J. Park, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book:
    The Valuation Treadmill
    Published online:
    14 July 2022
    Print publication:
    28 July 2022, pp 129-146

  • Summary

    The thesis of this book is that securities fraud became a threat to the integrity of public companies as markets increasingly valued them based on projections of their future earnings. It became important for companies to consistently validate prior forecasts of their profitability to maintain their stock price. This created a systemic incentive for corporate managers to manipulate market perceptions of their company’s earnings potential. The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes–Oxley) was an attempt to address this incentive by requiring all public companies to invest in measures that prevent financial misstatements. The law governing Rule 10b-5 developed as private investors and the SEC increasingly scrutinized whether misleading corporate narratives of the future were motivated by fraudulent intent.