All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 1108
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AICPA develops new benefit plan auditing standards
With new professional standards soon to be finalized, auditors are working on a plan to improve the quality of employee benefit plan audits.
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Dean Foods names chief accounting officer
Dean Foods Company has named Jeff Dawson as its senior vice president, chief accounting officer, effective Jan. 28. Dawson replaces Scott Vopni , who left the company to pursue other opportunities.
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Immuta adds Richard Geering as VP of GRC
Enterprise data management solutions provider Immuta announced the hiring of Richard Geering as the company’s vice president of governance, risk, and compliance.
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BlogEY elects new global chairman and CEO
EY has elected Carmine Di Sibio as its new global chairman and CEO to succeed Mark Weinberger when he departs July 1, 2019.
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Restatements declined with adjustments, analysis shows
As restatements numbers have fallen in recent years, so too have out-of-period adjustments, according to a recent analysis by Audit Analytics.
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French data regulator fines Google under GDPR
France’s data protection regulator recently slapped Google with a substantial €50 million (U.S. $57 million) fine for failing to provide users with clear, accurate, and informative details on its data use policies.
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Waters builds new agenda for Financial Services Committee
With new leadership, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the House Financial Services Committee is setting its agenda for the new session of Congress.
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ArticleFinding good in the government shutdown
With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history leaving many federal employees without a salary and a nationwide mess in its wake, many companies are stepping up and leading by example—demonstrating not just what they stand for, but what they stand up for.
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EU fines Mastercard $648M for anticompetitive behavior
The European Commission on 22 January 2019 fined Mastercard 570.6 million euros (U.S. $648 million) for anticompetitive behavior, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
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Apple, CEO Tim Cook double down on privacy demands
In an op-ed for Time Magazine, Apple CEO Tim Cook is once again calling on the U.S. government to address data privacy in 2019.
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ResourcePreparing for new credit loss rules
Banks and other financial institutions have a lot of work ahead of them as they prepare to adopt the new standard on reflecting credit losses in financial instruments (the so-called CECL standard).
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ResourceHow to Stop Delivering Boring Compliance Training: A Holistic Approach to Employee Engagement
Many employees see compliance training as fundamentally uninteresting, irrelevant — or just plain boring.
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Conduent names chief compliance officer
Conduent, a business services technology company, has appointed Brian Clayton as chief compliance officer.
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ArticleShutdown starts to pose new risks for businesses
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is increasingly a catalyst for new risks and tough choices for corporations.
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When earnings precede audit, auditors cave, study finds
Absent a strong audit committee, management can get an upper hand over auditors when it releases unaudited earnings results to the market, a new study says.
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Dun & Bradstreet unveils new TPRM solution
Commercial data firm Dun & Bradstreet announced the availability of D&B Compass, its new third-party risk management solution.
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ArticleDistilling compliance lessons from healthcare fraud cases
False Claims Act recoveries related to healthcare fraud in fiscal year 2018 offer key insight into the best practices the government expects to ensure compliance with federal healthcare laws.
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Grant Thornton launches lease analytics app
Grant Thornton announced the launch of web-based application LeaseCom Analytics (LCA), designed to help companies adjust to FASB’s new lease accounting standard.
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ArticleQ&A: A view of bank risk from the battlefield
Compliance Week talked with Stuart Brock, director of Seal Software, about the risks faced by banks—not the least of which is third-party due diligence.
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The Red Flag Group opens office in Paris
The Red Flag Group, a business intelligence and technology firm, announced the opening of an office in Paris in an effort to help French companies with their anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance efforts.