Mar. 16–As chairman and chief executive officer of Atlanta-based Flag Financial Corp., Joseph W. Evans is a banker who believes the proverbial buck stops with him. And his bank has just shelled out more than $200,000 to prove it to regulators. The company, parent to Flag Bank, spent the money to test its internal controls over accounting procedures and other bank processes. Today , Flag Financial and companies across the country will report to the Securities and Exchange Commission that they’ve set up controls required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to ensure no material misstatements in their financials. The regulations, brought about by corporate scandals of recent years — Enron and WorldCom being the biggest — aim to bring transparency to financial statements by forcing company officials…
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Mar. 6–TUPELO — Cardiology Associates of North Mississippi P.A., recently announced the association of Dr. Francisco Javier Sierra. Sierra received his medical training at Honduras National University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency and a cardiovascular disease fellowship at Tulane University School of Medicine. He also completed a cardiovascular disease noninvasive fellowship at Harvard Medical School and a vascular medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty of Cardiovascular Disease. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American College of Physicians, American College of Sports Medicine, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. –Dr. Barney Guyton has been elected as chairman of the Health Care Foundation of North Mississippi Board of Directors. Guyton, a gastroenterologist with Digestive Health Specialists, is the first physician to be elected to the leadership position during the organization’s 24-year history. He succeeds David Brevard who served a two-year term as board chairman. Additional officers elected to the board are L.E. “Bo” Gibens, vice… |