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Compliance Week regularly holds Webcasts on a variety of issues critical to subscribers. Some of our most recent Webcasts are listed below. Also see the upcoming schedule of Complimentary Webcasts. Archived Webcasts can be viewed on demand and are free. CPE credits are not given for archived Webcasts at this time.
March 11
Gaining Complete Visibility Across GRC Initiatives with BPM
Senior management in most organizations today is focused on how their companies identify and manage risks that could potentially affect business performance. Many are looking to strengthen their risk-based processes, expanding their scope and reach throughout the organization and ensuring effective policy management communication and execution. March 3
Streamline IT and Business Costs: Reduce Costs and Improve Performance
Organizations around the world are struggling with the rising costs of achieving compliance and the growing audit burden. As the internal and external requirements for compliance continue to increase, companies are faced with increasing costs without a corresponding increase in performance. When those pressures are coupled with an increased need to more effectively manage risk, companies are often spending significantly more on compliance and risk than necessary without realizing any benefits. February 25
Constant Vigilance: Enabling a Rapid Response to Control Breakdowns through Continuous Monitoring
Continuous control monitoring is a topic that has been discussed by audit and controls professionals for over two decades. Despite the widespread acceptance that today’s regulatory environment demands a process for continuously monitoring control effectiveness, organizations struggle with how to translate this vision into reality. Join Oracle Corporation to examine a real-world business case where the collaboration between IT, Audit, and Finance resulted in an automated control monitoring system that quickly identifies and responds to control failures. February 4
Staying Ahead of the Risk Curve in 2010: Tips from Top Attorneys
Gregory A. Baldwin, Partner, Holland & Knight LLP; Karen L. Corman, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; and Paul J. McNulty, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP provide tips and insight into recent developments and anticipated enforcement trends, and compliance program-related suggestions for risk mitigation. Attend this webcast to gain insight into what's new and compliance steps you should be taking in the areas of fraud, bribery and corruption; labor and employment law; and anti-money laundering and OFAC. January 28
New Insights in Records Management Compliance
Join industry luminary, C. Richard Reese, Executive Chairman of Iron Mountain, as he shares with you the results of Iron Mountain’s second Compliance Benchmark Report. This report, entitled Iron Mountain Compliance Benchmark Report: Best Practices for Records Management is a comprehensive review of the current state of physical and electronic records management best practices and will be presented publicly for the first time in this Compliance Week Webcast. January 21
Protect Sox Compliance 2010: Comply, Achieve ROI and Reduce Risk
Attend this webcast to learn how you can reduce your cost of compliance in 2010 while mitigating risk across your enterprise. This webcast will demonstrate how Lumigent’s unique approach to continuously monitor key business application controls delivers an instant ROI to your organization, as continuous monitoring eliminates costly, manual testing and review of controls that inflate compliance costs. December 17
Protect Your Organization From Fraud Risk While Enhancing Operational Performance
Speed, reliability and accuracy do not have to be mutually exclusive when dealing with better decision-making, fraud prevention and business performance. Organization can achieve relevant risk management in a sustainable manner by embedding control, security, and predictability into the critical business processes, find out how. Please join us for this highly informative one-hour webinar! December 8
2009 Global Integrity Survey
Join Compliance Week and Integrity Interactive for a Webcast briefing of their 2009 Global Integrity Survey, which was polybagged with the September print edition of Compliance Week. The survey is one of the most comprehensive reports available to help executives understand how corporate integrity efforts are structured; how integrity is measured and enforced; how executives are (or are not) held accountable for the integrity of their workforce; and what are the chief concerns of global compliance and integrity officers. December 3
Special Report: The Corporate Compliance Maturity
Join us for a special Webcast hosted by Compliance Week to review the results of our Corporate Compliance Maturity Survey. The study, a joint survey conducted by Compliance Week and Paisley, polled executives on how their compliance functions have developed over time and gives data on what specific tools or techniques companies use for compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, import-export law, money-laundering rules, labor law and more. December 1
Governing User Access For Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management
This webinar will discuss the information access governance processes and policy automation needed to achieve compliance with regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FERC/NERC, PCI, state-based privacy and risk management mandates such as Basel II. During this webinar Aveksa will review the typical access control failures that organizations are currently experiencing as well as introduce a role-based access governance control framework that will increase accountability, enable sustainable compliance, mitigate access related risk while reducing the cost and complexity of demonstrating compliance. November 19
Benchmarking Your Transaction Tax Practice: Identify & Quantify Improvement Opportunities in Your Tax Department
Wonder if your tax organization is operating as efficiently as possible? Or are there investments in process, people or technology that might provide immediate returns? Would you like an independent objective assessment of your tax organization to identify areas of opportunity? Join Sabrix and Jonathan Kraft, Manager of Benchmarking Services of DuCharme, McMillen and Associates, to learn how you can compare yourself against your peers, generate the business case for tax process transformation and gain insight to how your company may lower compliance costs. November 12
Beyond Workpapers - The Future of Internal Auditing
Evolving your Audit Department to the Next Level
In today’s tough economic environment, internal audit departments are faced with increasing workloads and shrinking resources. In spite these challenges, many audit leaders are pursuing a more strategic role in the organization and extending their responsibilities beyond standard operational and financial audits. October 22
How Risk Aware is Your Company: Building a Risk Intelligent Enterprise
Join SAP BusinessObjects and UHY Advisors for an important Webcast that demonstrates how building a risk intelligent organization can help you increase strategic performance by proactively identifying and mitigating risks across your enterprise. To become risk-intelligent, organizations must be able to proactively identify, evaluate, and mitigate their risks. October 15
Proactive Ethics and Compliance Programs in a Regulated World
Utility companies are faced with rapidly changing business environments resulting from increasingly complex regulatory obligations. Implementing an effective ethics and compliance program will help ease these challenges. In this webinar, Tom Wiles, Managing Director, Corporate Compliance of Duke Energy Corporation will discuss how Duke has been able to implement an ethics and compliance program that is proactive as well as reactive. He will also discuss key steps your organization can follow to integrate disciplined ethics and compliance management into your business and the value organizations can receive from effective programs. October 1
Managing Email Using Your Records Retention Schedule
Managing your organization’s email can be a daunting and costly undertaking. From dealing with expensive storage, maintenance issues and slow backup and recovery, not to mention the complexities of discovery requests, many organizations don’t know how to start managing their email. Join this webcast to learn how to develop an email management strategy for your organization, what steps to take when creating a retention schedule to include email, classification methodology, and implementation strategies. September 24
Learn About "Hidden" Applications that are Essential to Speeding up Your Financial Close
The dynamics of the financial close have changed greatly with a succession of compliance and regulatory changes coupled with major software suppliers leaving many of the close processes that surround the production of financial results under-served by existing technology solutions. As a result, heavy demands have been placed on already overstretched accounting departments to compensate for the new requirements and technology shortfall. September 17
Controls Monitoring Assessment Based on COSO Guidance
COSO guidance is designed to assist companies in ensuring the effectiveness of their financial, operational, and compliance-related internal controls. Continuous monitoring technology that meets the COSO requirements can also monitor direct information on the performance of internal controls to deliver the most persuasive feedback regarding the internal control system’s operational effectiveness.
August 25
Accounting Standards Codification: What You Need To Know
There is now a “single source” to access U.S. GAAP which consolidates all authoritative literature for accounting standards in the U.S. This codification will simplify the research of technical accounting issues and help mitigate the risk of noncompliance. Protiviti will discuss what the codification means to you and how to streamline your processes for dealing with technical accounting issues.
August 20
Why Many Compliance Programs Fall Short
In the webcast, you'll learn steps your company can take toward achieving an effective compliance program. You'll also hear specific examples of how companies have implemented a comprehensive compliance program and the benefits they are witnessing.
Compliance Case Study: Leverage Best Practices to Optimize Your Compliance Management Program
The cornerstone of a successful compliance operation is the effective management of policies and procedures. With every new or updated regulation, a significant burden is placed on those who manage policies and procedures due to the impact on significant amounts of content from disparate functional groups. June 25
The World of Privacy Compliance: Make Sure You’re Not Left Behind
FACTA. PCI. HITECH. MA Privacy Law. Do these regulations and industry standards apply to your organization? Many companies are asking themselves this very question as they continue to look for ways to better protect their customers’ personal information.
June 17
Using A Unified Approach To Governance, Risk & Compliance: How to Drive Competitive Advantage Using GRC
To not only survive, but to thrive, in today's current business environment, companies are using Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions to avoid surprises and drive strategic performance. With improved predictability and performance, companies can increase efficiencies and reduce compliance costs.
Evolving Fraud Risks: Stress Testing Today’s Decisions & Implementing the Compliance Response
Fraud is not a control failure, but control failures make fraud more likely and more damaging. As headcount reductions, contract terminations and individual uncertainty increase, individual likelihood to commit fraud increases. Yet overwhelmingly companies are either holding anti-fraud measures flat or reducing them. This requires compliance managers take a more active anti-fraud role, implementing existing programs more effectively and changing focus to fit the emerging realities, not just the historical trends.
June 11
Streamlining and Future-Proofing Value Added Tax Compliance
Is your business aware of the exposure of the upcoming VAT law changes? Starting on January 1, 2010, all businesses in the European Union need to be in compliance with fundamental changes to the VAT system agreed on by the ECOFIN in December 2007. Sabrix and KPMG will discuss the potential exposure of these VAT law changes and the resources and technology required to manage VAT.
May 12
FASB Codification: Impact on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
On July 1, 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB's) Accounting Standards Codification will completely change the way that U.S. GAAP is documented, updated, referenced, and accessed. As a result, reporting entities face many new potential weaknesses in their internal control over financial reporting. This webcast will explain how the FASB Codification will impact your company’s internal controls and provide you with practical guidance on how to mitigate that impact.
PCI DSS: Don’t Just Check the Box, Lock the Box
With more than 200 PCI compliance requirements facing today’s merchants, the challenge has evolved from meeting the PCI requirements and avoiding a data breach, to keeping IT costs down while sustaining compliance as the PCI standard evolves. April 23
Litigation Across Borders: Management and Prevention
In 2008, nearly one-third of organizations had more than 20 lawsuits filed, and 43% of larger organizations are forecasting an uptick in litigation in 2009 amid the economic downturn, according to Fulbright & Jaworski’s Fifth Annual Litigation Trends survey.
April 16
Email Management - A Case Study with Energen and Open Text
Businesses around the world are powered by the information shared within email on a daily basis. However, to compliance officers, records managers and legal counsel, it can pose substantial unmitigated cost and risk if left unmanaged. When implementing an email retention strategy, organizations need to proactively think about mitigating the risks of non-compliance and the costs associated with litigation.
April 9
Breaking Down Compliance Silos: The Cost-Effective Approach to Managing Compliance
As regulatory pressures continue to mount, managing compliance has become a tremendous challenge to many organizations. Compliance may be managed in silos throughout the organization, leading to inconsistencies, duplication of efforts, and at a higher cost to the organization.
April 2
Tackle Sales and Use Tax Compliance Challenges: Leveraging Self-Audits and Technology to Reduce Errors
Tax departments ultimately are responsible for sales and use tax compliance, yet non-tax personnel often make key decisions about when and how much tax is paid. How can you do a better job of identifying and addressing costly errors? We'll discuss common compliance challenges, including data input errors, miscoding of software, and uninformed decision making by accounts payable staff.
March 26
How XBRL Transformed Fujitsu’s Internal Financial Reporting Platform
This case study presentation will detail how Fujitsu revamped its own internal IT systems using XBRL-GL (XBRL Global Ledger), XML and SOA to make global operations more efficient in order to speed up management decisions and improve financial governance.
March 19
Risk Management from Strategy to Success
Starting in 2009, Standard & Poor’s is including risk management analysis in its credit rating evaluation of non-financial corporations. Recent economic volatility and the demise of mega corporations are also giving risk management a new focus and eminence.
March 12
Practical Guidance: Seven Questions to Ask to Optimize Your Compliance Programs
The proliferation of compliance regulations, increased enforcement, and the cost of compliance failures highlights the need for more effective policy and procedure and compliance program management.
March 10
Post-SOX Efficiency: Maximizing Controls Amid Recession
After five years of Sarbanes-Oxley and steadily growing knowledge about Section 404 compliance, companies must suddenly manage Section 404 challenges in a turbulent economic climate. As they reduce employee headcount at an unprecedented level, natural segregation of duties has disappeared and fears of material and significant control deficiencies are rising. Join us for real life insights into reducing the SOX 404 compliance demands on business owners while strengthening the entity's financial reporting internal controls.
February 26
How Risk-Aware is Your Company? Building A Risk Intelligent Enterprise.
Join SAP BusinessObjects and UHY Advisors for an important Webcast that demonstrates how building a risk intelligent organization can help you increase strategic performance by proactively identifying and mitigating risks across your enterprise.
February 24
The Latest on Investment Security Impairment
The accounting is complicated and requires considerable judgement, and there is special accounting after an impairment charge has been taken. To top it off, FASB has made a few recent modifications and is considering others. Join Christopher Moore from Crowe Horwath for this session and we will cover the basics of impairment accounting, the recent changes and what might be in store for the future.
February 12
Case Study Webinar: Leveraging the Power of Integrated Risk Management
How often do you have to provide the same assessment data for multiple risk efforts such as ERM, SOX and Internal Audit? Learn how Carnival Corporation & plc is integrating Internal Audit, SOX and Enterprise Risk Management across their business lines.
February 10
Fair Value: What Internal Auditors Should Know
The presentation will cover fair value accounting by providing a high level overview of the significant issues posed and addressed by fair value accounting, and then provide participants with a perspective on how Internal Auditors can and should plan to address compliance and testing as the make and revise plans for 2009 and 2010. Specific topics will include the fair value universe (to which assets and liabilities will fair value rules apply?), the sources of information required for companies to comply, and how to test both the “rules” and the “principles”.
February 3
SOX Compliance for Smaller Public Companies
Please join Bob Benoit, President and Director of SOX Research at Lord & Benoit, for a discussion to help you get ready for the integrated audit. Specific topics will include a regulatory update, latest guidance, risks and much more—including compliance with Section 404(b), the auditor attestation provision of Sarbanes-Oxley.
January 29
Decoding the Science of Compliance - Are you Ready for 201 CMR 17.00?
In response to the growing amount of identity theft or violation of consumer’s personal information, effective May 1, 2009, any business that manages electronic or paper documents containing personal information about a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are required by law to follow the new regulations established in 201 CMR 17.00.
January 27
Change the Way You Think about Tomorrow's Deal - New Accounting and Reporting Standards for M&A
A review of key deal process considerations (ranging from restructuring activities, acquired assets, transaction costs, contingent assets and liabilities, earn-outs, etc) in light of the new business combination accounting rules that will focus more on fair value creating more volatility in earnings and driving additional transparency related to M&A financial reporting.
January 22
Governance, Risk, and Compliance Controls: Run your Business Better and Prove It.
The current economic environment is one of uncertainty and volatility, resulting in increasing calls for more transparency and regulatory responses to improve accountability. To effectively respond to increased scrutiny of business processes and safeguard sensitive information in a sustainable manner, organizations need automated solutions to identify, analyze, and continuously monitor controls that govern applications configuration, who has access to which systems, and what type of transactions are being executed.
December 18
Enhancing the Risk Profile of Your Organization: The Corporate Risk Management Library
Streamlining the processes for large risk assessments has become a challenge for large enterprises. How can we reduce the time spent on the analysis of assessments and yet improve the effectiveness of the process? How can organizations effectively track and address the myriad potential threats to their organization? One new and compelling concept is to develop a risk management library.
December 16
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Leases
Lease accounting continues to be controversial and complicated. The FASB and the IASB are working on a joint project to radically restructure lessee accounting, but in the meantime important differences remain between US GAAP and IFRS. This webcast will briefly explore current differences in the accounting for lease transactions, including land leases, investment property, and sale and leaseback transactions with a brief look ahead at what changes are under discussion at the FASB and the IASB.
MetroPCS Integrates Sabrix with Oracle E-Business
The speakers will discuss how MetroPCS automated use tax calculation and vendor tax validation using Sabrix with Oracle Payables and Purchasing in an Oracle On Demand environment. You will hear about techniques and tips for a successful implementation of Sabrix to automate tax decisions associated with the procure-to-pay process.
December 9
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Employee Benefits
FASB has significantly changed the accounting for employee benefits in the past two years, creating additional differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS. This Webcast will explore current differences in the accounting for employee benefits, including compensated absences, post-employment benefits, and post-retirement benefits, with a brief look ahead at what changes are under discussion at IASB.
December 2
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Income Tax
As IASB finalizes an exposure draft of proposed revisions to IAS 12, Income Taxes, considerable attention is being paid to how accounting for deferred income tax effects currently differs between IFRS and GAAP. This Webcast will compare and contrast income tax accounting under both sets of standards, and discuss how each is likely to change as a result of convergence.
November 20
How to Gain Control and Visibility in the Account Reconciliation and Financial Close Processes by Eliminating Spreadsheets
The stakes surrounding these critical processes are higher today than ever, forcing the CFO to search for ways to remove spreadsheets from both the reconciliation process and financial close.
November 18
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Financial Instruments
Andrew Watchman, Executive Director of IFRS at Grant Thornton International, will discuss some of the key differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS in reporting financial instruments. Watchman will identify the major pronouncements under both codes and explain how they differ in key areas, and will discuss how the two systems may develop and converge in the coming years.
November 13
Championing GRC within Your Organization
Join CA as they walk through the process of building the business case he used to get approval for his own initiatives at the world's leading independent information technology (IT) management software company. CA operates in 45 countries and serves 99% of Fortune 1000 companies.
November 11
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Business Combinations
A pair of new accounting standards impacting business combinations, slated to go into effect for U.S. GAAP reporting companies in 2009, are a major step toward convergence and represent significant implications on how M&A deals are designed and reported. Steve Hobbs, Managing Director—IFRS Solutions Leader at Protiviti, will discuss the key differences between U.S. GAAP & IFRS for business combinations and also address the convergence impact beyond the numbers on people, process and technology.
November 6
FCPA Enforcement and Compliance: Best Practices for Dealing with the Government
With the ever-increasing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by the Department of Justice and SEC, and the potential for huge criminal fines and individual prosecutions, compliance has become critical for corporations.
November 4
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Fair Value vs. Historical Cost
Colleen Cunningham, Compliance Week columnist and a global leader at Resources Global Professional, will provide an overview of the major differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS related to fair-value measurements, including areas where fair value is used or permitted in IFRS.
October 28
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Property, Plant and Equipment
Hans-Peter Rudolf, Assurance Executive at Crowe Horwath, will discuss both similarities and differences between the relevant guidance for long-lived assets under US GAAP and IFRS’s IAS 16 Property, Plant and Equipment. This webcast will cover the recognition criteria, depreciation methods, treatment of borrowing costs, and other pertinent topics.
October 23
Addressing FCPA Risks with Automated Controls Monitoring
Aggressive enforcement by the US Justice Department and SEC has resulted in record numbers of enforcement actions for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Responding to FCPA enforcement actions can be costly and associated penalties can run into the tens of millions of dollars.
October 15
Taking Control: How to become Litigation Ready Through Information Governance
Having control of your information in today’s environment is paramount. Is your organization prepared for litigation, audit and investigation? The disparate nature of information can cause all sorts of corporate pot holes and litigation nightmares.
October 14
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Debt and Equity Instruments
Paul Munter, a Partner in KPMG's Department of Professional Practice, and Matt Drucker, an Audit Partner with KPMG, will discuss some of the key differences between US GAAP and IFRS when accounting for debt and equity instruments. Paul and Matt will review several examples of common instruments and discuss their related accounting in accordance with IAS 32.
October 9
The Future of GRC
GRC is a global issue comprising many different initiatives - some regulatory, many policy driven - that cut to the core of every business, regardless of geography or industry.
October 7
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Taxes
KPMG LLP’s Ashby Corum, a Tax partner and Midwest Area IFRS leader will discuss how the conversion to IFRS may affect accounting for income taxes. He will discuss some of the more significant differences between Statement 109 and IAS 12 including the accounting for share-based payments and uncertain tax positions. Ashby will also discuss the IASB's intention to issue an exposure draft of a replacement for IAS 12.
October 2
Achieving Reliability in Financial Reporting: The Move to Financial Governance
Faced with multiple priorities including the oversight of transactions, management of enterprise performance, and attestation of financial reporting, many CFOs grapple with the issue of improving governance of their financial processes.
September 30
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Revenue Recognition
FASB and IASB are nearing the publication of an initial discussion paper on their joint efforts to develop improved revenue recognition standards. This Webcast with Bruce Pounder, President, Leveraged Logic, will explore current differences in revenue recognition standards under GAAP and IFRS, and will explain how future converged standards are likely to differ from current standards.
September 25
Risk Management Strategies at Capital One
Join us for a conversation with Scott Green, managing vice president of operational risk management at Capital One. Green will talk about how Capital One is reinventing risk management processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness in managing risk requirements and their associated controls. This includes development of common processes across risk programs leveraging shared technology. Join Compliance Week and OpenPages to learn about Capital One’s approach to risk management.
September 23
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: Statements of Income, Cash Flow & Equity
Kathleen Malone, Audit Director at Deloitte & Touche LLP, will present some of the key differences between US GAAP and IFRS in Statements of Income, Cash Flow & Equity. Kathleen will review IAS I and IAS 7 and discuss the components of financial statements and overall considerations for the fair presentation and compliance with IFRSs. She will also address the structure and content of financial statements, including the information presented on the face of the financial statements as well as in the financial statement footnotes.
September 18
Decoding the Science of Compliance - A Peer to Peer Review
Richard Reynolds, Esq., Director, Privacy & Compliance with Iron Mountain Inc., highlights trends such as increasing legislation and overwhelming regulatory demands, while Garry Watzke, Esq., Senior Vice President, Legal & Business Development with Iron Mountain Inc. discusses specific compliance challenges and corresponding solutions.
September 16
Where GAAP and IFRS Differ: The Balance Sheet
Wendy Hambleton, chair of BDO Seidman’s IFRS Task Force, will review a typical balance sheet and highlight areas where the presentation, format or accounting may be different between IFRS and U.S. GAAP. The two standards have many similarities, but there are some significant differences.
September 10
Tax Jurisdiction Sourcing—How Tax Technology
Achieving tax compliance with constantly changing sales, use, and value-added tax rules requires considerable effort and adds a significant burden to tax departments especially when there are tax jurisdiction sourcing changes.
September 9
Convergence in the Accounting of Income Taxes
Join Charles Evans from Grant Thornton for a discussion of the differences in accounting for taxes between U.S. GAAP and IFRS, which is of critical importance now that FASB is considering adopting the IFRS standard for tax accounting.
August 28
The Key to Addressing S&P’s Upcoming
Enterprise Risk Management Evaluations
What is the right approach to addressing S&P's evaluation requirements, which also provides you the foundation for an overall ERM program? Learn S&P's ERM evaluation criteria and impact on the credit ratings process, and best practices for implementing an Enterprise Risk Management program.
August 26
COSO’s Monitoring Guidance
Trent Gazzaway, Grant Thornton's managing partner of corporate governance and the leader of COSO's monitoring guidance project, will provide an overview of the monitoring guidance exposure draft. Discussion will range from understand how effective monitoring can benefit an organization, to developing risk-based internal control evaluation procedures, to identifying key controls that provide the most value in monitorin
August 21
Automated XBRL Reporting:
How to Get Started and Reap Benefits
In the wake of the SEC's proposal to mandate XBRL-based reporting, all publicly listed companies are faced with the challenge of adopting XBRL quickly to meet the deadlines.
August 19
Updated Form 8-K Guidance
The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance recently updated its Form 8-K interpretations. The staff revised some of its previously-issued interpretations, added some new ones and deleted others. In this webcast, members of the Public Company Advisory Group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Catherine Dixon, Howard Dicker, and P.J. Himelfarb) will highlight many of these changes.
August 14
Reducing Compliance Costs through
an Integrated Approach
Industry-leading governance expert Richard Steinberg and OpenPages team up on this webcast to discuss how an integrated, risk-based approach to compliance can help drive down compliance costs and enhance effectiveness at the same time.
August 12
How to Keep Your FIN 48 Workpapers Confidential
The recent adoption of FIN 48 requires taxpayers to document both their certain and uncertain tax positions with significantly greater detail. The increased level of detail - if obtained by a taxing authority - could provide a road map to the authority to issue substantially larger assessments. This webcast will discuss recent developments in attorney work product privilege law and steps taxpayers may take to reduce the risk of being compelled to produce FIN 48 and other FAS 109 tax accrual workpapers in the course of a tax audit.
July 31
Getting Ready for SFAS 141R, Business Combinations
SFAS 141R, Business Combinations becomes effective in 2009, bringing significant changes to the fair value accounting procedures for mergers and acquisitions. CFOs and other financial executives need to understand how the new standard will potentially affect deal structures and reported earnings.
July 24
Closing the Books and Getting the Numbers Right
Join finance and solution experts from Trintech as they explore a "day in the life" of a typical company controller, GL manager and SOX PMO as they close the books. See how purpose-built application functionality together with cross application dashboards and analytics can drive efficient compliance efforts while providing complete management and executive transparency across compliance, reconciliation and close task efforts.
July 22
OCEG- A Framework for GRC Technology
Join Christopher Fox, contributor to the CobiT 4.1 framework and primary contributor to the IT control objectives framework for Sarbanes-Oxley, to hear the latest draft of OCEG's Capability Model, a mapping of representative technologies to the Model, issues associated with technologies and the Model, and finally the suggested first steps in developing a GRC technology plan.
July 17
Emerging Issues and Trends in Operational Risk Management
Operational risk is an important component of Basel II and Solvency II. In many cases the expertise within Sarbanes-Oxley teams is becoming increasingly focused on important business areas, meaning the management of risk is important throughout an organization, not just in financial reporting.
July 15
How to Prepare for S&P's ERM Evaluations
This Compliance Week Webcast will help you understand and prepare for the new S&P evaluations. The webcast will review the S&P guidance on ERM evaluation criteria and provide strategies companies can use now to improve and strengthen enterprise risk management practices. The webcast will also discuss how the increasing focus on ERM is relevant to driving value and improving strategic decision making.
July 10
Implementing a Comprehensive Continuous Controls Monitoring Program
When building GRC programs to meet regulatory requirements, monitoring program "effectiveness" cannot be overlooked. This includes monitoring the effectiveness of the business processes and applications that are critical to reliable financial reporting and overall compliance.
June 26
Integrated Financial Governance Can Mean
Better Operations AND Reduced Costs
This Webcast highlights the strength of integrated financial governance and leading process management practice that drives excellence in financial governance. Hear from solution and practice experts as they provide concrete examples of how companies today are driving down costs and reducing the risks of governance breakdowns.
June 24
India Fraud Survey Report: Key Areas of Concern for Investors
Fraud and white collar crime in India has increased in recent years. In this Webcast KPMG will give a summary of findings from its India Fraud Survey Report 2008 to obtain insight into how companies are mitigating this risk. We will also cover key areas of concern for British and American companies that have invested in India or are planning to invest.
June 24
More than PCI Compliance- Obtaining Continuous Control
Find out how to take the challenge out of PCI DSS and start on the path to continuous compliance. Obtain actionable advice on how to reach and maintain compliance without adding additional staff, exhausting your IT budget or draining resources.
June 19
Fundamentals of GRC: A Blueprint for GRC Convergence Initiatives in a Resource Constrained Organization
In today's tough economic environment, many organizations are faced with the reality of having limited resources to execute on risk convergence and integrated GRC initiatives. While early adopters are reaping the rewards of GRC convergence, many organizations are challenged with the task of implementing integrated GRC after their technology and consulting budgets have been cut.
June 12
Advancing from Siloed to Enterprise GRC
In this session you will learn how improved insight on the performance of controls and the related risk impact enables you to ensure that your regulatory compliance initiatives are effective and cost efficient.
June 10
Review of 2008 Compensation Disclosures
This presentation will highlight interesting and outstanding examples of CD&A disclosure practices from fiscal 2007, including discussions of compensation philosophy, compensation elements, performance target disclosure, clawbacks, ownership guidelines and peer group design, among others. Finally, to further place these practices into context, this presentation will also offer data from recent Equilar research efforts on related topics.
June 5
Decoding the Science of Compliance: Litigation Readiness vs. Reactivity
Angela Fares, Director of Corporate Records & Information, RadioShack Corporation, will focus on the complexities facing the world of Records Management. Angela will highlight best practices and challenges to help unravel the science of compliance. Stephen Whetstone, Vice President, Stratify, Inc., an Iron Mountain Digital company, will discuss litigation readiness, the duty to preserve information and how to mitigate the risk of "spoliation" of data and sanctions.
May 22
Strengthening Data Privacy With Continuous Controls Monitoring
This webcast will highlight frameworks such as the Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP) and demonstrates how Continuous Privacy Monitoring (CPM) tools are being used to identify specific security risks and data governance issues and safeguard your applications that hold sensitive information.
May 20
Making ERM Work: Drawing Insights From Risk Assessments
Enterprise Risk Management S&P is talking about its impact on credit ratings, boards are asking about it and management is trying to respond in a practical, constructive way. Most organizations acknowledge risk assessment is an important starting point for implementing ERM.
May 13
Recent SEC Developments for Foreign Private Issuers
Topics covered will include: use of financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS in the annual report on 20-F; other recent changes and proposed changes to Form 20-F; how foreign private issuers can deregister under federal securities laws; proposed rules regarding other exemptive relief from registration for foreign private issuers.
April 29
Disclosure, Materiality and Regulation FD
This Webcast will provide an overview of disclosure obligations under the federal securities laws, including the duty to disclose, assessing materiality, and Regulation FD best practices. This session will also provide real world examples, such as what to do if it looks like you are going to miss the quarter and techniques for minimizing the risk of a securities lawsuit.
April 22
Improving Efficiency of SOX 404 Controls
The discussion will include: applying a top-down, risk-based approach when identifying and assessing controls; balancing short-term considerations for compliance against long-term goals of improving business performance; and results from a survey of leading businesses about SOX 404 changes.
April 3
Talking Risk With D&B's Chief Risk Officer
Join Compliance Week publisher Scott Cohen for an intimate conversation with Charles Pavlounis, the Chief Risk Officer at $1.6 billion D&B. Previously with The Interpublic Group
April 1
Fair Value and FAS 157 Update
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has finished its plan to delay portions of its new standard on fair value measurements while it continues to work on implementation problems. What does the delay mean, and what is the latest update on FAS 157, Fair Value Measurements? Join us for this webcast on the latest information on the FASB staff positions.
March 27
VAT legislation changes affecting EU and Non-EU Businesses
Significant changes will impact the place of supply rules for services affecting EU and non-EU businesses (The VAT Package). Learn about the changes and an assessment of the impact on VAT compliance so you can investigate further and identify tax planning opportunities.
March 25
Implementation and Lessons Regarding FIN 48
Year one for FIN 48 adoption is behind us, but continues to provide challenges for many companies. Some external auditor?s year end FIN 48 activities proved to be more daunting than anticipated for some. Others encountered issues around the drafting of their footnote disclosures and netting of deferred tax items in a company?s disclosures. Jefferson Wells will discuss these and other ongoing issues in our FIN48 ? Year One Webcast.
March 20
Managing Information Chaos: Policies, Best Practices & Tools
Are you prepared for the new age of information retention and retrieval demands? The storage, retrieval and retention of information has been an ongoing challenge for years. Just when we think you have the answers, new legislation and new technology is introduced and causes you to rethink and update your strategy.
March 18
What You Need to Know This Proxy Season
What are the expectations of regulators and investors regarding executive compensation disclosure this proxy season? The SEC has already provided comments on hundreds of disclosures, and it's clear the Commission is seeking more information on performance targets, severance and change-in-control agreements, the roles of consultants and management in pay discussions, and more. Join Ronald Mueller of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for a full discussion of what companies need to know this proxy season.
March 13
Neither snow nor rain nor heat: The United States Postal Service and Financial Compliance
As a federal enterprise, the United States Postal Service (USPS) faces the added pressure of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley through the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. In this webcast, join the USPS to learn how they've developed and automated their compliance activities to help ensure the integrity of their controls.
March 11
What Public Companies Need to Know About XBRL
In 2007, the SEC created an Office of Interactive Disclosure to lead the transformation to interactive financial reporting by public companies. The Commission's "interactive data" strategy, which would allow companies to file ther financials by mapping GAAP numbers to a format known as "eXtensible Business Reporting Language," is in full swing, with a rule proposal for mandatory use of XBRL expected in Spring 2008.
March 6
Fundamentals of GRC: Mastering Risk Assessment
Whether a seasoned audit or risk professional or a newcomer to GRC, join Bruce McCuaig, chief risk officer at Paisley and a nationally recognized expert in internal audit, risk management, and internal control, to learn how you can maximize the effectiveness of your audit, ERM, compliance, and SOX risk assessments
March 3
New Rules for Environmental Liabilities in Mergers & Acquisitions
Learn how environmental liabilities and indemnifications will affect M&A deals following the recent adoption of new U.S. and international accounting standards for business combinations. The program will examine how new recognition and valuation rules for acquired contingencies will affect pre-acquisition due diligence, risk allocation, valuation, deal timing, earnings impacts, and disclosure.
February 26
2008: What Plaintiffs' Lawyers and the SEC are Targeting
In this webcast hear Brian E. Pastuszenski, co-chair of the Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement Practice at Goodwin Procter LLP and a nationally recognized securities defense lawyer, discuss why the SEC is targeting 10b5-1 securities trading plans, why these plans still make great sense as part of a strategy to maximize liquidity and minimize insider trading liability exposure, and how to design plans to reduce the chance of potential regulatory problems.
February 21
Managing Risk in Uncertain Times: Strategies for 2008
Now, more than ever, your company?s risk management capabilities are critical for success. Companies must get better at identifying, communicating and managing key risks to the business. The financial services sector?s sub-prime mortgage crisis is just one example demonstrating how failures in risk management can lead to disastrous results.
February 19
SOX 404 Opinions - How to Avoid Being Proven Wrong
Studies show that 10 percent of large companies restated financial results in 2006, even when most of those companies and their auditors reported ?effective? internal controls in the original, erroneous filings. In this session, Jeff Thomson of the Institute of Management Accountants and Tim Leech of Navigant Consulting will provide insights into why so many SEC registrants have their claims of effective internal controls proven wrong.
February 14
The "Silent" Revolution in Global Transaction
Tax Management and Compliance
Tax considerations are now high on the priority list when it comes to companies? governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) efforts especially given the complexity of global tax rules and the significant impact of tax on financial results
February 12
Equity Compensation Plans: Risks and Internal Controls
This webcast session offers a detailed discussion of key financial controls related to equity compensation. The session will include real world issues and provide guidelines and best practices. The information is based on a recent research study conducted by the Certified Equity Professional Institute at Santa Clara University which included a wide variety of corporations.
February 5
Executive Compensation Issues in the 2008 Proxy Season
Corporations and their boards are facing critical decisions about executive compensation, governance, and related disclosure issues this coming proxy season. This webinar will focus on understanding hot-button issues involving executive pay, from proposals for ?say on pay? shareholder votes, to new disclosure requirements in the proxy statement, to best practices for using compensation advisers to help set executive pay levels?plus much, much more.
January 29
The Revised Rules for Resale of Restricted Securities
Corporations and their boards are facing critical decisions about executive compensation, governance, and related disclosure issues this coming proxy season. This webinar will focus on understanding hot-button issues involving executive pay, from proposals for ?say on pay? shareholder votes, to new disclosure requirements in the proxy statement, to best practices for using compensation advisers to help set executive pay levels plus much, much more.