All Internal Controls articles – Page 43

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    Federal contractors brace for insider threat rule

    2016-09-13T09:00:00Z

    A new Department of Defense rule requires contractors to detect, deter, and mitigate insider threats. But how they should achieve that leaves plenty of gray areas, which does not sit well with contractors. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.

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    CCOs struggle to keep up with evolving insider-trading legal standards

    2016-09-07T10:30:00Z

    A year after the landmark U.S. v. Newman insider-trading case, federal prosecutors are getting more creative in an evolving legal landscape that creates fresh pitfalls for CCOs and legal counsel. Jaclyn Jaeger has more.

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    HR360 helps companies comply with employment laws

    2016-08-30T10:00:00Z

    Companies have a new website at their fingertips to guide them through hiring, managing, and terminating employees while ensuring they remain in compliance with employment laws. Jaclyn Jaeger has more.

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    To really improve corporate culture, it must be measurable

    2016-08-23T10:30:00Z

    The days of viewing culture as a hazy intangible are over, given regulator interest in using the efficiency of cultural programs as benchmarks for everything from indictment decisions to penalties. Corporate culture, says Jose Tabuena, needs to be subject to performance benchmarks, like anything else.

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    The unconventional CFO

    2016-08-23T09:45:00Z

    Throughout CFO Jan Siegmund’s time at ADP, he has come to realize that when your business processes pay for millions of people, your business is more than payroll. It’s about compliance. An interview by Bill Coffin.

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    Building the relationship between compliance and general counsel

    2016-08-16T11:00:00Z

    As the roles and responsibilities of compliance and legal overlap, and as the role of the chief compliance officer continues to gain profile, how the CCO and general counsel work together is more important than ever, writes Karen Kroll.

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    BHS: asset strippers, chancers, and governance failures

    2016-08-10T12:15:00Z

    Parliament released a scathing report on the sale and management of retail chain BHS in late July. The report, says Paul Hodgson, led to calls for someone to be stripped of his knighthood—a first in Parliament history.

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    Kami Niebank: Rising to the challenge

    2016-08-02T09:00:00Z

    Kami Niebank is CalPERS’ interim chief compliance officer and guides compliance efforts at the largest public pension fund in the United States. She is also overseeing an ambitious five-year compliance plan that will alternately refine and overhaul the entire compliance regime.

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    Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategies names independent senior advisor

    2016-07-29T12:30:00Z

    The former head of the statistics function and senior advisor to the director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Kenneth Lamar, was recently named an independent senior advisor to the Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategies. He will advise financial institutions—largely banks—on regulatory reporting, data infrastructure, and ...

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    Alan Halfenger: The true believer

    2016-07-12T10:15:00Z

    Alan Halfenger stumbled into compliance more than two decades ago, but in the time since then, he has not only come to embrace and embody what it means to be a strong compliance professional, he has made it his mission to spread the word far and wide on what tomorrow’s ...

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    Lax controls—a cancer at one bank

    2016-06-16T17:30:00Z

    Bill Winters, CEO of the U.K. bank Standard Chartered may have set a new precedent for taking a hard stance on ethics and compliance recently, when he penned an angry memo to 1,500 top managers announcing steps he has taken to “stamp out the cancer of complacency and lax controls” ...

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    LendingClub could teach Theranos a thing or two about crisis management

    2016-06-14T15:30:00Z

    Relatively young, technology-based companies face special difficulties when dealing with crises. Their focus on market disruption and their lack of established credibility make earning public trust even more difficult. And yet, LendingClub shows how it can be done at a time when Theranos certainly failed the crisis management test. David ...

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    Don’t go it alone: working with other functions

    2016-06-14T15:00:00Z

    During a panel discussion at Compliance Week 2016, ethics and compliance officers came together to discuss both the challenges and opportunities associated with working with other functions and how to minimize turf wars and silos while enhancing the compliance program. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.

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    Spotting the difference between ‘significant deficiency’ and ‘material weakness’

    2016-06-07T10:30:00Z

    Material misstatements involve mistakes large enough, surely, to involve some kind of internal control shortcoming that allowed the misstatement to occur in the first place. So why aren’t more internal control reporting and auditing processes helping to identify control lapses in advance of material misstatements? Tammy Whitehouse explores.

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    Tone at the top and (former) CEO consulting

    2016-06-01T16:45:00Z

    What does retaining a disgraced CEO as a consultant tell you about tone at the top?

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    Compliance Map tracks country of origin in complex supply chains

    2016-06-01T15:15:00Z

    The Compliance Map, a developer of environmental compliance software and supply chain solutions, has launched the Compliance Map Origin Determination Module, designed to simplify origin tracking within a complex manufacturing supply chain.

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    BDO Consulting expands Dispute Advisory Services

    2016-05-27T10:00:00Z

    BDO Consulting, a division of BDO USA, a professional services organization, has appointed Bob Broxson as managing director in the firm's Dispute Advisory Services practice, and as a member of  BDO’s Natural Resources practice.

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    Key theme from Compliance Week 2016

    2016-05-25T16:15:00Z

    The continued evolution of the Chief Compliance Offiicer and compliance function was a key theme from Compliance Week 2016.

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    UHY names new managing director

    2016-05-17T09:15:00Z

    UHY Advisors, a tax and business consulting firm, has promoted Brad Baer to managing director in the UHY management and technology consulting group.

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    Are you a Top Mind?

    2016-03-31T13:30:00Z

    Image: Compliance Week is profiling some of the brightest and most influential thought leaders in the world of governance, risk, and compliance as part of our inaugural Top Minds project—a series of in-depth profiles of corporate compliance officers, advisors, regulators, academics, and other experts to better understand how they view ...