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(From CBS Marketwatch (Stories))
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Parts of the landmark 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance law should be implemented in different ways to save businesses money and time, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in a speech Monday.
In prepared remarks to the Economic Club of New York, Paulson said a new law to amend the controversial act is not needed, but he acknowledged the impact its accounting provisions, in particular, are having on businesses large and small.
"We need to implement the law in ways that better balance the benefits of the legislation with the very significant costs that it imposes, especially on…