This Compliance Week e-Book is produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with KPMG. It offers various articles from Compliance Week on navigating the ever-growing sea of data and how to process and make the most of the vast amount of information available. In addition, KPMG offers the white paper, “Creating the Connected Enterprise to Drive […]

Ineffective and unenforced policies are rampant within organizations and are a thorn in the side of compliance and policy managers. Organizations end up with policies scattered on dozens of sites with no defined understanding of what policies exist and how they are enforced: An ad hoc approach to policy management allows anyone to create adocument […]

One WebFilings customer was faced with filing its 10-Q, and then announcing a significant loss via conference call. In order to minimize the impact to stakeholders, they wanted to time their submission to occur after the U.S. markets closed, and before the announcement. This situation resulted in a narrow 30-minute window for filing with the […]

CIO’s face bigger IT challenges today than they did just 5 years ago as tightening regulations and shrinking budgets up the ante. Compounding the pressure, data is exploding in size and diversity, business is more mobile, and social media is pervasive. For these reasons, some organizations are opting for cloud computing to reduce risk, streamline […]

Changing behavior is rarely easy or quick. It doesn’t happen overnight or because of good intentions, whether it involves an individual dropping those last ten pounds or a company facing sanctions brought on by ethical misconduct. Simply announcing a new policy, issuing a revised Code of Conduct, or adding another training session to an existing […]

The importance of an in-house Securities and Exchange Commission reporting solution with built-in XBRL tagging capabilities is becoming more and more evident as many companies complete their first exercise in detailed tagging. With financial reporting teams looking to take control of their tagging, it is clear to see that additional insight is needed around the […]

The disclosure landscape is constantly changing, improving, and then changing again—causing public companies to continuously encounter an increasing amount of regulatory requirements for disclosure reporting. While businesses try to keep on top of new regulations and trends, it can be easy to lose sight of an effective Disclosure Management Cycle—particularly when there’s no standard cycle […]

This Compliance Week e-Book is produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with Business Controls, Inc. The e-Book offers various articles from Compliance Week on whistleblowing, the fear and threat of retaliation, and how to promote and maintain an effective compliance hotline. There is also the Business Controls white paper Compliance Professionals Prepare for Big Challenges […]

In advance of a meeting Friday with the Financial Stability Oversight Council, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent a letter to the members of the Council urging it to be more involved with ongoing, but stalled, efforts to reform the money market fund industry. The Council should pressure the Securities and Exchange Commission to act on […]

In today’s increasingly regulated and challenging corporate environment, boards of directors face new risks, threats, and uncertainty. As a result, it’s difficult for compliance officers to know where to begin discussions with their boards, especially with such challenges and obligations pulling board members’ focus in so many directions. Nevertheless, a few times a year, boards […]