In the last twenty years, the American marketplace has seen some major ups and downs. After scandalous failures like the fall of Enron in 2011, the government has had to step into the financial sector in a way that it had not previously needed to. This led to enactments of laws like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, created to enforce more transparency and greater accountability to the investors, employees and shareholders that support them. These regulations have made investor relations annual reports and public disclosures more important than ever.