Premise: Participants generally believed that the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 should be implemented and assessed before the Congress should consider adding any new legislative requirements; however, participants agreed that much can and should be done by other responsible parties, such as by regulatory and self-regulatory bodies, within their existing authority.

Hypothesis: People considered the Sarbanes-Oxley act to be a crucial piece of legislation.
Relation: neutral