All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 551
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The compliance side of the circuit split on whistleblower protections
An ongoing legal dispute over how far whistleblower protections extend beyond Dodd-Frank provisions highlights that best practices are already a few steps ahead of the law.
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European Union updates AML rules
The European Union is proposing some updates to anti-money laundering rules in an attempt to streamline coordination among member states in fighting terrorism financing and money laundering.
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As firms adopt revenue rules, are they ignoring disclosure?
Whether you think your company is ready for the new accounting for revenue recognition or not, it’s probably not ready to comply with new disclosure requirements.
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Love it or hate it, opinions abound over SEC pay ratio rule
As the public comment period expires on the SEC’s controversial pay ratio rule, we review the commentary, both pro and con.
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Blog
The meat of the latest Brazilian bribery scandal
Brazil has a new corruption scandal on its hands, this one dubbed “Operation Weak Flesh.”
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ArticleHow do you redo Dodd-Frank? Congress is asking the experts
When to expect a Dodd-Frank overhaul, and what it may mean, remains uncertain. But recent Congressional hearings offer a glimpse of what may be in the offing.
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AICPA release 11 more revenue recognition drafts
Accounting experts are releasing their latest views on how to apply the new revenue recognition standard to some industry-specific questions.
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Toshiba—a culture of lies?
Shareholders react strongly to Toshiba's announcement of its intention to take a $9 billion loss for the year and the chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Westinghouse Electric Co., a U.S. nuclear-plant builder 87-percent-owned by Toshiba.
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Conflict of Interest—the revolving door turns both ways
A look at the case of U.K. entity HS2, the taxpayer-owned company building Britain’s new high-speed rail line, which recently revoked a key contract amid allegations of conflicts of interest involving the U.S. engineering firm CH2M.
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Event
Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics European Compliance & Ethics Institute
Prague Marriott HotelV Celnici 8110 00 PragueCzech Republic
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Bombardier asserts commitment to ‘highest level of integrity’ amid bribery probe
Bombardier, a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, said that it is “committed to the highest level of integrity” in response to an investigation being conducted by Swedish authorities and the World Bank into a Bombardier Transportation contract in Azerbaijan.
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Centennial Resource Development names chief accounting officer
Centennial Resource Development has appointed Brent Jensen as chief accounting officer. He assumes the role from Jamie Wheat, who resigned, effective as of March 24.
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Mastercard names assistant general counsel for privacy
Mastercard announced that Erika Brown Lee joined the company in March as senior vice president and assistant general counsel for privacy and data protection.
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Grapevine: Who’s coming and going in compliance
Volkswagen and Hamilton Lane both have new compliance officers; Louis Berger has a new chief integrity officer; and the co-founder of LinkedIn has joined Microsoft’s board. Check out the CW Grapevine for the latest personnel moves.
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Senators demand investigation into SEC rule reconsiderations
A quartet of Senate Democrats are demanding that the SEC’s inspector general conduct an investigation into Acting Chairman Michal Piwowar’s “reconsideration” of the agency’s pay ratio and conflict minerals rules.
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FASB shortens write-down period for some debt securities
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has settled on a new way for companies to amortize, or write down the value, of certain debt securities.
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SEC Historical Society names new executive director
The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society’s Board of Trustees has named Washington D.C. policy veteran Jane Cobb as its new executive director. She replaces the departing Carla Rosati, the Society's founding executive director.
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Software demoFive ways ZenGRC helps compliance teams save time and boost compliance
Join Reciprocity’s Rob Ellis as he shows you how companies like Uber, Fastly, and ThousandEyes use ZenGRC to improve their compliance posture. This is a can’t-miss session for anyone managing a growing compliance practice or expecting an audit in the next year.
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Execs use audit insights to improve business, poll says
A Deloitte poll says C-suite executives and audit committee members use audit insights to improve business performance and operational processes.
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Resource
Accounting change charges head first into internal controls
Accounting and audit leaders can expect 2017 to be the year when monumental accounting change crashes head on with continued intensity around internal controls, and it could be an ugly collision for companies that are not adequately prepared. In this e-Book, produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with Workiva, we ...