Private companies jumping through public hoops.

• Position: Survey Says - New corporate governance standards - Brief Article

It's not the same old day for private companies as many are changing the ways they do things in light of new corporate governance standards.

A survey by Robert Half Management Resources found that 58 percent of 1,400 CFOs polled have implemented new practices in light of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Chief among those practices are changes to their business' accounting practices (44 percent), enhancements to...