All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 724
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CommonBond Names Chief Risk Officer
CommonBond, a student loan lending platform, has appointed Vinayak Gurjar as chief risk officer. In this role, Gurjar will be responsible for overseeing CommonBond's risk management strategy and underwriting guidelines. Details inside.
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Data Governance 101: Getting Started
Amassing terabytes of data is easy; for most businesses, managing those valuable—and sometimes very risky—assets is the hard part. A successful data governance initiative, experts say, isn’t a project you can hand off to the IT department or solve with a software purchase. Compliance, audit, and risk executives all need ...
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Still Reading Tea Leaves on FCPA Enforcement? Try Listening and Reading
Sometimes all the angst and analysis about FCPA enforcement need not happen; sometimes, voices in the enforcement community just tell us what’s coming. That has been the case lately, Compliance Week columnist Tom Fox writes this week, as the SEC’s recent settlement with KBR over confidentiality agreements proves. Inside, he ...
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CFTC Case Against Kraft Puts Cos. on Hedge
Image: A novel interpretation of the Dodd-Frank Act is rattling buyers of raw materials. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission is moving against Kraft Foods for a big bet in the wheat market, using a section of Dodd-Frank everyone previously assumed was intended to curb high-frequency traders. “The case shows that ...
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ISS: CEO Pay Jumps 13 Percent Among Early Filers
The average compensation package for CEOs in the United States rose nearly 13 percent in 2014, driven by increasingly valuable pension plans, according to new research from Institutional Shareholder Services that analyzed early filers in the Russell 3000 index. Among firms that use equity compensation, the median grant date value ...
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Shop Talk: Managing Vendor Risk
Pop quiz: Try to name a recent example of corporate misconduct that did not somehow include a company’s vendors or third parties. It’s not easy, and third parties are now a huge part of the compliance officer’s responsibility. In our latest Compliance Week executive forum, we gathered a dozen CCOs ...
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A Bit More Transparency on Risks of Confidentiality Clauses
Image: The SEC is not the only government agency cracking down on “pre-taliation risk” in confidentiality agreements with employees; many others are turning their attention to the issue, too. “This is really a new focus for these agencies,” says Christopher Calsyn of the law firm Crowell Moring. Compliance officers may ...
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Klass Capital Acquires Resolver
Klass Capital this week announced the acquisition of Resolver, a risk-based corporate performance, compliance, and assurance software provider. The transaction includes Resolver’s GRC product line and their company operations. Details inside.
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Roundtable Biographies - 032415
On March 24, Compliance Week and ProcessUnity presented an editorial roundtable at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The focus of the roundtable was on systematic vendor risk management. Attendees’ full biographies are below.William BrownChief Compliance OfficerKnights of Columbus William Brown joined the Knights of Columbus as chief compliance ...
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Audit Inspections: Improvement? Maybe. Costs? Yes.
Image: Five years of increasingly rigorous PCAOB inspections have driven audit firms to improve their efforts at scrutinizing corporate financial statements and internal control. Companies receiving that pressure say the heightened scrutiny is clear; the question is whether it is making audits better, or just bigger and more expensive. “Companies ...
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Building a Compliance Ambassador Network
Sure, compliance officers do not have to fulfill their company’s ethics and compliance mission alone, but building a network of compliance ambassadors (or champions, or liaisons, or whatever you call your helpers) can be laborious. Inside, we asked compliance officers from Lockheed, GenCorp, DTE Energy, and elsewhere how they built ...
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Podcast: How Falling Oil Prices Affect MD&A, Accounting
In our latest podcast, we talk to Elizabeth Paul at PwC about what companies affected by falling fuel prices must consider. That includes ensuring the adequacy of Management Discussion & Analysis disclosures; explaining the extent that increased profits are due to better margins rather than higher revenue; and, for the ...
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Podcast: How Falling Oil Prices Affect MD&A, Accounting
In our latest podcast, we talk to Elizabeth Paul, a partner with PwC’s national professional services group, about what companies affected by falling fuel prices must consider. That includes ensuring the adequacy Management Discussion & Analysis disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission; explaining the extent that increased profits are ...
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Avigilon Promotes Chief Accounting Officer
Vancouver-based Avigilon, a global provider of end-to-end security solutions, has promoted Ric Leong to chief accounting officer and senior vice president. Details inside.
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UCP Appoints Chief Accounting Officer
UCP, a homebuilder and land development company, has appointed Timothy Baker as chief accounting officer. He will report to UCP's Chief Financial Officer William La Herran. Details inside.
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French Magistrates Probing HSBC for Tax Evasion Scheme
London-based banking giant HSBC last week said that French magistrates have launched a formal criminal investigation and imposed a bail of US$1 billion concerning allegations that HSBC's Swiss-based private banking arm helped clients evade taxes. In a statement, parent company HSBC Holdings said it “believes the French magistrates’ decision is ...
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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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Report: Majority Adopt New COSO Framework
With more than 3,000 filings collected through early April, three-fourths of publicly traded companies have disclosed that they have adopted the 2013 COSO internal control framework, with the rest either remaining on the 1992 framework or not disclosing what framework they followed, according to a study published by Protiviti.
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Study Shows No Better Reporting After Auditors Cut Tax Services
U.S. auditor independence rules targeted at tax work have done nothing to improve financial reporting quality, according to new academic research out of Singapore. The study found a big shift in non-audit services provided by audit firms, leading to a significant drop in auditor-provided tax services, especially among firms that ...
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PCC Seeks Nominations for New Chair; Members
Private Company Council Chairman Billy Atkinson this week announced that he will not seek a second term as head of the group. As a result, the Financial Accounting Foundation Board of Trustees issued a request for nominations for candidates to succeed Atkinson next January and to fill other potential vacancies ...