All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 728
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Shop Talk: Useful Metrics, Effective Training
Effective compliance programs hinge on good training and proper metrics to see how your training influences employee behavior. That was the subject of Compliance Week’s latest executive roundtable, held in Washington and sponsored by LRN. Complete coverage is inside, from what effective metrics look like to how effective training works.
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Roundtable Biographies - 120314
On Dec. 3, Compliance Week and LRN presented an editorial roundtable at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C. The focus of the roundtable was on measuring program effectiveness. Attendees’ full biographies are below.Karen BerthaChief Ethics & Compliance OfficerMCR Karen Bertha serves as the chief ethics and compliance officer of ...
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Regulators Publish Latest Thinking on AML Compliance
Image: Financial regulators have just updated their examination manual for anti-money laundering compliance, giving financial firms plenty of holiday reading on how they should structure their AML programs. “The big changes are in areas where things have moved forward: virtual currency, prepaid cards, changes in the SAR rules, aggregation for ...
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More Hints on Putting New COSO to Work
It’s official: The SEC will not roast companies over an open flame if they continue to use the old COSO framework for internal controls into 2015. That said, SEC staffers also warned at the annual AICPA conference last week that their largesse will not last long, and a bevy of ...
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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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Survey: Directors Uneasy About Risk Strategies
Dec. 16—Many directors are unhappy with their approach to risk oversight and mitigation, frequently feeling out-of-the-loop when it comes to cyber-security threats, according to a new survey by the National Association of Corporate Directors. The survey found that many directors want changes to how risk oversight responsibilities are allocated, with ...
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SEC Gives More Ideas on Less Disclosure
Image: A small army of SEC officials attended the annual AICPA conference last week, offering all manner of advice to financial reporting executives struggling to comply with external reporting rules. One subject: how to achieve better disclosure with fewer words. “We are aware there are some registrants that seem to ...
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Effective governance and the Three Lines of Defense
Compliance officers, internal auditors, fraud investigators, controllers—all of them might work at one company together to assist the business in managing risk. The trick to effective governance is to assign all those professionals (and more) to their proper places in the Three Lines of Defense model.
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American Realty Capital Scrambles Amid Probe
American Realty Capital Properties, reeling from an accounting misstatement disclosed in October, has announced sweeping changes to its management and corporate governance. Most notably, CEO David Kay and Executive Chairman Nick Schorsch have both resigned their duties and stepped down from ARCP’s board of directors. The company is also moving ...
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New CCO at Northrop Grumman
Image: Northrop Grumman has named Carl Hahn as its new chief compliance officer. Effective Jan. 15, Hahn will succeed Judy Perry Martinez, who will be retiring. He joins the company from IBM, where he most recently served as associate general counsel and compliance officer.
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Humana Names New Top Accountant
Health insurer Humana has named Cynthia Zipperle as chief accounting officer and controller, effective immediately. Reporting to CFO Brian Kane, she has responsibility for all accounting functions, the establishment and maintenance of internal accounting controls, and enterprise-wide financial reporting to both the Securities and Exchange Commission and state Departments of ...
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Making CD&A Disclosure Meaningful
As compensation committees and securities lawyers gear up for the 2015 proxy season, honing a useful Compensation Discussion & Analysis will be a big part of filing the proxy statement. What are the latest trends in CD&A disclosure? Telling investors how their input has been incorporated into pay decisions, and ...
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It May Be Voluntary, but NIST Framework Is a Crucial Cyber-Security Tool
Each day, it seems another big-name company falls victim to a cyber-attack. The new framework for assessing the security flaws, developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may be intended for critical-infrastructure companies, but other businesses may find that its guidance offers more help than the mélange of ...
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PCAOB’s Chief Inspector Provides Checklist for Year-End Audits
Dec. 16—The audit profession’s chief inspector has provided auditors with a year-end checklist, giving companies some fair warning about what they can expect auditors to be focused on in their upcoming audit cycles. The most common deficiencies found in 2014 inspections still relate to audits of internal control, said Helen ...
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2015 SEC Trial Scorecard Update: Jury Finds Bank, CEO Liable for Fraud
As I did in FY 2014, I am again tracking the SEC's trials and outcomes for FY 2015 in this running SEC Trial Scorecard. To date in FY 2015, which began on October 1, 2014, the SEC has had three trials in federal court reach a verdict (see the ...
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COSO 2.0: Same Same but Different
Image: After 18 months of forewarning, the new COSO framework for internal control went into effect last week—and despite all the promises that COSO 2.0 isn’t substantively different than the old framework companies have used for a decade to manage SOX compliance, in reality, Compliance Week Editor Matt Kelly writes, ...
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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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Report: Companies Struggle to Secure Sensitive Data
Many companies still struggle with how to secure their most sensitive data, elevating the risk of a data breach, according to a new cyber-security report of nearly 500 IT and security professionals conducted by information-security firm Trustwave. The report reveals significant security deficiencies and common security weaknesses still remain in ...