萨班斯法案（2002）Sec.705.(1)

　　SEC.705.STUDY OF INVESTMENT BANKS.

　　(a)GAO STUDY.-The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on whether investment banks and financial advisers assisted public companies in manipulating their earnings and obfuscating their true financial condition.The study should address the rule of investment banks and financial advisers-

　　(1)in the collapse of the Enron Corporation,including with respect to the design and implementation of derivatives transactions,transactions involving special purpose vehicles,and other financial arrangements that may have had the effect of altering the company's reported financial statements in ways that obscured the true financial picture of the company;

　　(2)in the failure of Global Crossing,including with respect to transactions involving swaps of fiberoptic cable capacity,in the designing transactions that may have had the effect of altering the company's reported financial statements in ways that obscured the true financial picture of the company;and

　　(3)generally,in creating and marketing transactions which may have been designed solely to enable companies to manipulate revenue streams,obtain loans,or move liabilities off balance sheets without altering the economic and business risks faced by the companies or any other mechanism to obscure a company's financial picture.