- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-07-24T13:09:00
Businesses confronting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters for the first time are finding value in engaging their finance and accounting (F&A) teams for support.
The problem? Those F&A teams are often already overburdened and not granted additional resources to tackle what’s quickly becoming a growing area of disclosure priority.
Harnessing technology to enable automation presents significant opportunities, according to a panel of accounting experts taking part in a webcast sponsored by BlackLine and moderated by Compliance Week in May.
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The Deloitte Center for Controllership released new data that indicates confidence levels in environmental, social, and governance financial reporting are low.
Respondents to a survey conducted by the International Compliance Association said they were confident they understood and are properly monitoring the social risks in their companies’ supply chains, though blind spots regarding cultures and strategic plans remain.
Hassan Chaudry, director of compliance at Canada-based asset management firm Starlight Investments, shares his take on how companies can derive value from their compliance efforts regarding environmental, social, and governance and anti-bribery and corruption.
Chinese authorities banned PwC’s Chinese unit from performing audits in the country for six months, labeling the subsidiary’s flawed audit work as complicit in the failure of giant property developer Evergrande.
Erica Williams was reappointed to a second term as chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board after an ambitious first three years in the role that have seen the agency work to update many of its standards deemed outdated.
Software company Autodesk said it won’t restate several years of financial statements following an audit committee investigation into potential accounting misconduct.
