Sarbanes-Oxley does not require:

A) companies and their independent accountants to report on the effectiveness of the companies' internal controls.

B) companies to turn over responsibility for establishing and maintaining internal controls for financial reporting to auditors.

C) all publicly held companies to comply with the act.

D) companies to file their internal control reports with the 10-K report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

B) companies to turn over responsibility for establishing and maintaining internal controls for financial reporting to auditors.

Explanation:

Sarbanes - Oxley is popularly called SOX and which is also know as the ''Public Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act'' in the United States' Senate and ''Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility and Transparency Act'' is a USA federal law the sets out new regulations for all U. S public company boards, management and public accounting firms. Some part of the Act makes provisions that apply to privately owned companies.

The Sarbanes-Oxley is named after the bill sponsors that is Senator Sarbanes and a U. S Representative known as Micheal G. Oxley and this bill makes sure that the top management of a company must each individually determine and certify the accuracy of all financial information provided or stated. This bill was enacted in 2002 to curb a number of major corporate accounting scandals, especially those affecting big accounting firms like; Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems, and WorldCom that cost investors to loose a lot of money when the their shares collapsed.

As a guiding principal companies and organizations are supposed to adhere to the options mentioned above except for option B which states: companies to turn over responsibility for establishing and maintaining internal controls for financial reporting to auditors.