An extraordinarily detailed study analyzing corporate practices on matters such as anti-corruption practices, third-party risks, how compensation is tied to ethical performance, and more.

Inside this Compliance Week supplement on Enterprise Risk Management, we cover risk intelligence in a poor economy, as well as the changing role of directors in difficult times. It also includes using XBRL to attack risks in the financial system, and a new column by Richard M Steinberg on what boards should know about Groupthink. We also have Thought Leadership on the New Era of Risk Management and the latest list of the largest risk-management consulting practic

Inside is Compliance Week's latest articles and research on maintaining IT control and governance amid recession, making the most of your ERP systems, and the future of XBRL technology.

This Compliance Week supplement aims to be a primer on ERM in all its forms. Inside you will find articles examining the idea of ERM as a whole, from how much board directors worry about it to how companies can establish, staff, and audit their own ERM functions. We also have white papers from accomplished experts and a list of resources that can help you move forward with ERM at your own speed.

Inside is a compendium of our recent coverage, ranging from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s looming plan to mandate XBRL to the Byzantine challenges of protecting consumer data to the trench warfare many companies wage to keep spreadsheets, passwords, and user access under control.

For most of this decade, Compliance Week has kept a sharp eye on antifraud and FCPA issues, and with this issue we present a special supplement on fraud and FCPA compliance. Inside, you’ll find a recap of our extensive coverage of fraud in the last year: what types of FCPA cases prosecutors are enforcing, how you can assess your risks of fraud, how you can audit your antifraud controls, and more. We also have numerous white papers from consultants and law firms with expertise in FCPA issues to help you understand the fine points of compliance with the law— and, alas, there are many, many fine point

This special e-discovery supplement recaps Compliance Week’s extensive coverage of the subject in the last year, and is meant to serve both as a refresher course and a reference guide for those trying to understand the new rules. Inside you will find a simple Q&A cheat sheet on the basics of e-discovery, best practices for records management (including the critical skill of knowing when to destroy records), and a look at various court decisions in the last year that have tried to apply the broad e-discovery rules to specific legal contexts.

This Compliance Week supplement aims to assist companies as they continue the ERM journey. Inside you will find articles examining the concept of ERM as a whole, from how much board directors need worry about it to how companies can establish their own ERM functions.

A Compliance Week analysis of 250 CD&As filed so far this year shows that 78 percent of companies used compensation consultants, mostly to conduct surveys of pay levels or to help prepare proxy disclosures. According to the Compliance Week analysis, just two firms, Towers Perrin and Mercer HR Consulting, were hired by one-third of companies surveyed. Included is a downloadable spreadsheet of companies and their compensation consultants, plus details on the market.

Lots of people talk about enterprise risk management, but few truly understand how to build an ERM system that really works. Compliance Week columnist Richard Steinberg—principal author of the COSO ERM framework—has written an exclusive, multi-part series examining ERM in detail. He starts with the basics, defining ERM (“a company’s process to identify, assess, and manage risk that could interfere with achieving any of its corporate objectives”) and provides examples of ERM in practice at three very different companies. The remaining columns deal with why a company would want an effective ERM process, including the benefits it brings; some of the more effective techniques for applying ERM; where the responsibilities for ERM are best housed; and what methodologies are most effective for implementing an ERM system, including pitfalls to watch out for.