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The Costs of Compliance: Strategies for Automating Tax Management in the Cloud and Avoiding Hidden Costs
The average annualized cost to manage sales and use tax is more than $63,000 for small companies and more than $393,000 for large organizations. Aberdeen’s Cost of Tax Compliance Survey outlined the most difficult components of sales and use tax management. The report uncovers the direct and indirect costs of ...
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e-Book: Cultivating a Culture of Compliance
A strong ethical culture is the foundation of a successful compliance program. It is also among the most difficult program elements to define, establish, and maintain over time.In this e-Book, produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with NAVEX Global, we explore practical steps organizations can take to create and sustain ...
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The Elements of Privacy Risk – GRC Illustration
Organizations that handle personal information face increasingly complex challenges to effectively manage privacy risk and compliance. The impact of these challenges covers the entire information life cycle.Whether information is collected to support individual transactions, conduct research or meet legal requirements, the duty to keep that information secure and private arises. ...
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Meet Dodd-Frank Act Recordkeeping Requirements
Dodd-Frank regulations have introduced wide-ranging legal, regulatory, and policy changes that impact how financial institutions manage their enterprise information. These include:Record retention of all related electronic communications24-72 hour regulatory request responseRegulator access to all related transaction informationEvent reconstruction with intelligent contextHP invites you to learn more about these issues and ...
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e-Book: The Evolving Role of Internal Audit
Corporations have seen an explosion in the number, type, and complexity of risks facing them today. Internal auditors are crucial players helping companies to manage those risks, which means the complexity of their role has exploded in the last decade, too. This e-Book, produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with ...
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Are CAE and audit committee priorities in sync?
The results are in—and the 2015 Governance, Risk and Compliance Survey suggests there are competing priorities between chief audit executives (CAEs) and audit committees.There’s a disconnect between audit committee members and CAEs when prioritizing audit risks. Audit committee members rate financial and compliance highly, while CAEs focus on compliance and ...
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e-Book: Rooting Out Conflicts of Interest
A conflict-of-interest issue can occur at any time. As regulators turn the heat up on this issue, most companies now have conflict-of-interest policies that oblige the disclosure of conflicts when they arise. But how useful are these policies? And can they be enforced around the globe? This e-Book, produced by ...
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Understanding Business Ethics and Integrity
With the rise of transparency and readily available information, ethics and integrity programs are more important now than ever before. Consumers not only want high quality goods, but they want to have confidence the company they are doing business with is doing the right thing. Over the past decade, particularly ...
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e-Book: Whistleblowing: Another Record-Breaking Year In the Making?
Whistleblowing remains a hotly debated topic, mainly because these informants have the potential to cost a company significant financial and reputational loss. Now the SEC is looking to add more incentives for whistleblowers around the world to come forward and report corporate wrongdoing. Four years ago, when the agency’s Office ...
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Anti-Bribery and Corruption: A Changing Landscape
Most companies are well aware of the risks bribery and corruption pose when operating in the global marketplace. However, what companies may be overlooking is how quickly the landscape is changing—and how this dynamic shift can affect corporate compliance initiatives. With the recent up-tick in enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt ...
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e-Book: HCM Compliance Update 2015
In an ever-changing regulatory landscape, tax compliance remains top of mind for compliance professionals and business leaders. Whether it is adhering to federal and state regulatory requirements, or making sure that all transactions are accounted for, one minor misstep can usher in a series of new risks. Moreover, as technology ...
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Enterprise-Level PDF Accessibility: Drivers, Challenges and Innovative Solutions
Over 20 million Americans suffer from vision loss and, per legal requirements, should have access to digital documents in alternate formats. Organizations are looking for ways to comply with current accessibility legislation to avoid lawsuits, penalties, and brand damage. It is vital to stay informed about available technology to proactively ...
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Compliance Week Audit Information Survey
Download the results from Compliance Week’s survey of chief compliance officers and chief audit executives, asking them what information they present to the audit committee about audit firm engagements.
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Harness Operational Risk with Enterprise GRC
Every organizational unit has some level of risk it must address. Yet, most internal teams lack the ability to identify priorities and accountability to stay ahead of new threats to the business, thus leaving the process of managing risk to be more reactive. While many risks exist within each function, ...
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e-Book: AML Compliance: 2015 Update
You can encounter some very shady characters while conducting business globally—and some very aggressive regulators determined to stamp out the money laundering those characters do. Little surprise then, that anti-money laundering compliance is surging. In this e-Book, produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with KPMG, we look at how companies ...
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Navigating the New Road to Revenue Recognition
Navigating the new revenue standard is one of the biggest challenges to face accounting practitioners in recent years. To help with this challenge, Bloomberg BNA has released a special report, Navigating the New Road to Revenue Recognition. This report provides you with the in-depth analysis you need to better understand ...
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Hidden Costs of Compliance: Reducing Transactional Tax Risk
Debates over online sales tax and related statutory rules and rate changes have vaulted sales and use tax compliance to the top of every finance organization’s 2015 action list. The challenge is on to understand how to implement safeguards and systems, monitor widely varying statutory rules, and find efficient ways ...
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The Power of Perception: Employees' Views on U.S. Corporate Tax & Accounting Strategies
U.S. corporations aren’t strangers to having their internal operations in the public spotlight. Throughout 2014, a notable amount of attention has been paid to organizations’ plans to pursue a mix of questionable tax strategies, in hopes of lowering their effective tax rate. Tactics from inversions to double Irish arrangements have ...
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Root Causes and Business Implications of FCPA Investigations and Enforcement
More than 90 percent of all FCPA-related investigations and enforcement involve the activities of third parties. The global fight against corruption continues to increase–more regulations, enforcement, cross-border cooperation and penalties. A bribe paid by one of your third parties could do incalculable damage to your reputation and your bottom line. ...
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Top 10 Ethics & Compliance Recommendations for 2015
What should you be tracking with regard to ethics and compliance this year? Is your program prepared? We asked industry experts, colleagues and ethics and compliance officers what they see as the top issues pertaining to ethics and compliance in 2015. We’ve gathered their best thinking and prepared a summary ...