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Below are white papers, legal commentary and other thought leadership on a variety of governance, risk and compliance issues. For information about including your firm's thought leadership here and in Compliance Week's 20,000-circ. monthly print magazine, email Barry Greenfield or call 888-519-9200.
Below are white papers, legal commentary and other thought leadership on a variety of governance, risk and compliance issues. For information about including your firm's thought leadership here and in Compliance Week's 20,000-circ. monthly print magazine, email Barry Greenfield or call 888-519-9200.
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| Bloor Research | Right-Time Information for Governance, Risk and Compliance | Governance, risk and compliance processes require right-time information. In order to run a business process or make an operational or strategic decision, you will need complete, accurate and trusted information to be provided either with the process or to the decision maker, at the point in time at which the information is needed. Download this Bloor Research white paper today to learn about the importance of right-time information. |
| Apex Analytix | 21ST Century Financial Controls: Using Technology to Stop Fraud in Its Tracks | The impact of fraud on today's businesses is staggering. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, U.S. organizations alone lose approximately $65 billion annually—or an estimated 5% of their revenues. |
| CA | Integrating Records Management and eDiscovery Processes for Greater Efficiencies | Organizations are meeting the challenges of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure through the integration of the eDiscovery and records management... |
| CA | Information Governance: A Core Requirement for the Global Enterprise, by Cohasset Associates, Inc. | Resolve the major disconnect between managing the information lifecycle and enforcing policies by matching your information policies your legal, regulatory and business obligations... |
| CA | CA: Innovation in Governance, Risk and Compliance | Ptak, Noel & Associates discuss how companies can respond how companies can respond to growing regulation and increasingly complex business service architectures... |
| CA | Reducing Cost and Complexity with Global Governance Controls | CA halves the cost of testing IT controls for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance with unified processes, increasing business agility, freeing internal resources, and reacting faster to regulation... |
| BDO Consulting | Key Practical Considerations Conducting an Investigation on Foreign Soil | As a result of the heightened regulatory and prosecutorial attention given to corruption in the United States and elsewhere, corporations increasingly have found themselves conducting investigations on foreign soil. These investigations can be conducted in a variety of different contexts, most notably, in the pressure cooker atmosphere created by an ongoing governmental investigation... |
| The Network | Fostering an Ethical Culture: Walk the Talk | Many organizations learn—and often, too late—that an ethics program does not make an ethical culture. An anonymous reporting mechanism and ethics training, both of which help to fulfill Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, represent key components. A code of business ethics is also important... |
| FTI Consulting, Inc. | Are You Missing 69 Percent of Your Information During Discovery? | In the past few years, the topic of electronically stored information, or ESI, has become red hot in the legal community. Most of the attention to date has centered primarily on email and electronic documents—documents that fall into the general category of unstructured data—and how to deal with such data during the electronic discovery phase of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation... |
| Jefferson Wells | Transfer Pricing Risk Rises Under FIN 48 | Transfer pricing in today’s global marketplace combines technical skill with the art of diplomacy. Specialists in economics, law, accounting, and tax, must balance economics, local tax law and interpretations with the substance and form of company operations to ensure prices charged for intercompany transactions satisfy tax authorities on all sides of the transactions... |
| Deloitte | The Jekyll/Hyde Nature of Risk | The split personality that Robert Louis Stevenson described in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not limited to humans. It can also be present in the inanimate and the conceptual: yin and yang; sweet and sour; and, for the purposes of this article, rewarded and unrewarded risk... |
| CA | e-Discovery Impact on Global Business Enterprises | In December 2006, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were modi ed (the “Amended Federal Rules”), adding several provisions addressing discovery and production requirements for electronically stored information (“ESI”) that directly impact global companies... |
| CA | Taking Control of Your Information: What Every Legal Department Wants from IT | Recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) created increased risks for companies and their IT and legal departments. The new rules require companies to prepare for litigation discovery requests on short notice. Failing to prepare can increase costs for readying paper and electronic business records, in-house attorney reviews, outside counsel fees, and payouts for remedies following an adverse court decision or settlement... |
| CA | Impact of International Regulations on Electronic Document Retention and Destruction | Managing electronic records in today’s global economy produces both interesting and complicated issues. The huge surge in electronic data around the world affects how records are managed. Managing all this data will not be easy. Many enterprises are struggling to manage information in a single location... |
| DoubleCheck/Novell | GRC&T: An Integrated Risk Centric Framework | Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) continues to capture executive attention unlike most business challenges in recent history. For most organizations, the compliance requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley 404 have been a greater challenge than ever anticipated... |
| Certus | Leveraging ERM for Compliance and Business Value | If you are the CEO of a major corporation today, there is massive pressure on you to demonstrate good governance practices, and provide tangible evidence that you and your board of directors are truly in touch with the workings of your business... |
| DoubleCheck/Novell | Integrating Control, Test, and Monitoring Automation into a GRC Management Framework | Effective business operations require answers now. Extracting answers from high-volume 24/7 processing systems is a daunting task. The time when complex spreadsheets and substantial manual intervention provided timely results is gone... |
| Grant Thornton | Fin 48: Best Practices For Private Companies | Privately-held companies can benefit from the experience of publicly held companies in their adoption of FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (FIN 48)... |
| Deloitte | A World-Class Tax Function | The changes in the regulatory environment in recent years have put tremendous strain on organizations across all functions, the corporate tax department in particular... |
| Liquid Engines | FIN 48 Compliance: It Requires More Than Just Smart People | While companies have always been required to evaluate and report on uncertain tax positions in their financial statements, the convergence of SOX and FIN 48 has created unprecedented demands for process, documentation, and controls in the corporate tax department... |
| Deloitte | Risk Assessment & Data Analytics | As if growing customer demands for innovation, strained resources, globalization and regulatory requirements aren’t enough, companies now face increased government enforcement of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)... |
| Grant Thornton | Fin 48: Questions to Guide Audit Committees | ...The purpose of this briefing paper is to position audit committee members, who may not have extensive tax knowledge, to raise probing questions relating to income tax uncertainty, as well as the processes to keep it current. |
| Softrax | Lowering Your Revenue Restatement Risk | Companies need to take an entirely new approach towards managing their revenue recognition processes not only to lower their restatement risk, but also to improve the financial close process, speed up revenue recognition reporting, enhance revenue recognition forecasting, and allow strategic insights into their revenue streams... |
| Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler | SEC Adopts Sweeping Changes To Executive Pay Disclosure | How to Prepare for the “Heart” of the Changes—the new Compensation Discussion and Analysis section |
| Day Pitney | Potential Termination and Change in Control Payments | This article focuses on a new provision that has not yet generated much publicity, but that will present serious challenges to accurate and complete reporting. The brevity of new Regulation S-K Item 402(j) “Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change of Control” belies the complexities you will face in satisfying the new directive for creation of meaningful, clear and complete disclosure. |
| Enterprise Financial Consulting | Is There No Option? | Enterprise Financial Consulting provides a comprehensive overview on backdating and spring-loading of stock options. Learn about backdating and the consequences; the history of option usage; spring-loading; red flags; and what the future holds. |
| Renew Data | Best Practices in Information GovernanceTM: Email Archiving and Compliance Strategies | RenewData's whitepaper will enable organizations to bridge the communications gap between legal and IT departments, and facilitate efforts to become compliance and litigation ready. |
| Jefferson Wells | Spreadsheet Compliance Five Steps to Success for Spreadsheet Compliance | An examination of how companies can apply a rational approach to controlling spreadsheets: taking inventory, assessing risks around them, and applying restrictions. Sponsored by Prodiance Corp and Jefferson Wells. |
| Grant Thornton | Sustaining SOX Compliance: Moving from chaos to consistency | This guide provides recommendations for companies seeking to make their financial control systems and evaluations sustainable. Read as this paper outlines a useful set of approaches and best practices for executives and managers who must implement sustainable financial control systems. |
| Grant Thornton | Knock your SOX off – Getting business benefits from 404 compliance |
This paper explores how companies can leverage their SOX activities to yield business benefits that go well beyond effective financial controls, including: -Improving the nature of certain controls -Centralizing operations -Improving the flow and reliability of information -Implementing business process improvements |
| Pricewaterhouse- Coopers | How To Move Your Company To Sustainable Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | The transition most companies must make from project to process modes of executing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance will not occur without forethought and a structured approach to implementation. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ new white paper, “How to move your company to sustainable Sarbanes-Oxley compliance – from project to process,” offers guidance on an effective path for companies to follow as they seek to achieve sustainable compliance. |
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