Articles | Compliance Week – Page 240
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Early adoption options could ease some accounting strife
Despite the enormity of accounting change occurring at public companies, some might spare themselves some grief by adopting certain rules before they are mandatory.
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Carillion demise brings lessons in compliance
The collapse of U.K. construction firm Carillion points to a need for compliance to step up to the plate and conduct its own due diligence, regardless of where the markets may lead.
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ArticleCindy Moehring: The catalyst for change
Cindy Moehring, Walmart’s head of compliance, runs a program as ambitious as Walmart itself, requiring diligence, innovation, relatability, and the courage to make hard calls.
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ArticleIndrani Franchini: The champion of culture
For almost 20 years, Indrani Franchini has made a career out of getting to know the industry she is in, creating business relationships that build value and driving cultural change.
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ArticleBeware of ‘no-poach’ agreements
Informal non-solicitation agreements between companies to stifle bidding wars for top talent might easily violate anti-trust law.
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Corporate culture may be even more important now
Smart strategies for influencing corporate culture include aligning incentives and recognizing that “tone at the top” needs to be supplemented by “tone at the bottom.”
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ArticleSEC takes a longer look at pre-IPO companies, Rule 701
With more and more successful companies choosing to go public, the SEC is paying closer attention to how they issue employee stock options.
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ArticlePedro Castro Nevares: The sports pioneer
Navigating crisis with compliance, Pedro Castro Nevares helps Torneos remain in business. Tammy Whitehouse talks with Nevares about his duties at the sports communications firm.
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ArticleCarrie Di Santo: The trusted adviser
Carrie Di Santo has built a compliance career by offering practical solutions that don’t just tell people “no,” but demonstrate how to do business safely and with integrity.
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GDPR compliance from the trenches
With the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation fast approaching, forward-thinking companies have some hard-won experience to share about their compliance efforts.
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Auditors develop early plans for how to audit blockchain
Blockchain is evolving rapidly from enigma to imperative in financial reporting circles, and one audit firm has even introduced an audit approach.
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Buyer-funded developments equal fraud
Buyer beware: A pattern is emerging with buyer-funded developments—investors tempted by high-yield returns, only to see the projects collapse and their investments disappear.
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ArticleMy Compliance Library: 'China's Crony Capitalism'
In China’s Crony Capitalism, we see a system that is endemically corrupt and nearly impossible to reform. Richard Bistrong explores the 2016 novel by Minxin Pei.
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ArticleFacebook’s data problems open door to domestic regulation of tech firms
As Facebook takes heat for how its user data has been exploited for political purposes, some wonder if a homegrown version of GDPR is on the horizon.
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SFO targets Tesco executives in retrial
Although British supermarket chain Tesco secured a DPA for its 2014 fraud offence, three of its executives still face a reckoning in court—with an uncertain outcome.
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As cryptocurrency creeps into mainstream, AML risks multiply
As mainstream firms dip their toes into cryptocurrency, they are discovering an evolving world of money laundering controls and sanctions restrictions.
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ArticleInternal auditors hear call to innovate, take up technology
The newest intelligence is calling on audit leaders to embrace their new normal—that nothing is normal—and innovate with technology to face it.
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Compliance officers give ethics training movies two thumbs up
Ethics and compliance officers are taking cues from Hollywood, creating training movies that capture the heart, engage the mind, and keep the attention of employees.
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Extracting compliance lessons from U.K. bribery cases
Recent case law shows that when it comes to the U.K. Bribery Act, no company is considered out of reach, or not worth prosecuting, if there is a message to be sent.
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Even as regulations vaporize, corporate governance takes hold globally
A new report says the lure of cross-border investors is doing as much to demand corporate best practices as government rule regimes.