All Compliance Week articles in March-April 2019
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ArticleSurvey: Companies seek both ‘soft,’ technical skills in compliance hiring
A new survey from Compliance Week and the Seton Hall School of Law gets to the heart of what employers are seeking in a chief compliance officer today.
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ArticleGuarding the gatekeeper
Gatekeepers who have firsthand knowledge of corporate wrongdoing should be entitled to the same legal protections afforded to any other whistleblower.
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ArticleAsk Amii mailbag: Keys to effective, engaging training
Executive coach Amii Barnard-Bahn tackles your questions on compliance training, conducting an ethics health check, and more.
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ArticleCharts: Exclusive analysis of audit inspection reports
See how the big accounting firms compare in terms of audit deficiency rates for 2009 through 2016 and internal control deficiencies for 2016 based on PCAOB inspection report results.
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Despite decades of scrutiny, auditor independence remains a challenge
Even with clear-cut expectations, audit firms still find new and unique ways to run afoul of the SEC’s independence rules. Among the culprits: the money-making potential of non-audit services.
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ArticleQ&A: Audit committee outlook from a committee chair and former EY auditor
Jan Babiak, a current audit committee chairman formerly of EY, offers her perspective on the roles ans responsibilities of the audit committee.
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ArticleU.K. narrow-minded to think breaking up Big Four a good idea
Big Four accounting expert James Peterson discusses ways in which the United Kingdom may dismantle the Big Four, the possible consequences of each of the proposals, and which he thinks is the better solution.
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ArticleThe benefits and struggles of marrying audit with new tech
The never-ending quest to improve audit quality has firms and the audit committees of their corporate clients eyeing how to best deploy new technologies.
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ArticleHow audit firms are polishing their images
Audit deficiencies are just part of the picture when it comes to the reputational damage suffered by nearly every big firm. Jaclyn Jaeger looks at how the big audit firms are tackling bad marks from the PCAOB.
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ArticleQuality reports from major audit firms
In recent years, major audit firms have begun producing voluntary quality reports. We offer a sampling of findings from six of the biggest firms to accompany our auditing special report.
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ArticleWhy companies replace their external auditors
Analyzing public company regulatory filings, we explore the factors behind why companies change external auditors.
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ArticleTransparency a game-changer for auditor evaluations
Under rising pressure to be more transparent about how they oversee auditors, proactive audit committees are raising their games when it comes to evaluating all aspects of their audit.
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ArticleSpecial report: Building a better audit
Various initiatives on producing audit quality indicators give audit committees some questions to ask or data points to consider in assessing their audits and their auditors.
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ArticleInsider threats often are hardest to detect
In his latest editorial, Compliance Week Editor in Chief Dave Lefort applies what he learned at CW West to recent insider scandals and provides several compliance-related takeaways.
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ArticleMy Compliance Library: How to create a ‘Fearless Organization’
Richard Bistrong explains how Amy C. Edmondson’s book on organizational health relies on the idea that employees are not governed by fear, but rather empowered by a safe environment that embraces honesty and candor.
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ArticleNew, tough regulator to oversee U.K. audit
The U.K. Financial Reporting Council will soon be replaced by a new regulator acting on recommendations from Sir John Kingman of the London Stock Exchange. The government hopes to ensure the United Kingdom going forward has “a world-class audit and accounting regulator.”
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Deloitte wins, other Big Four firms lose audit clients in 2018
Deloitte led Big Four firms in picking up new audit engagements in 2018, while KPMG lost the largest number overall, according to the latest analysis.
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ArticleFacebook: Can a data privacy dog really learn new tricks?
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, wrote a long, detailed blog post on Wednesday to announce new data security and privacy initiatives. Has he seen the light, or is this yet another false promise from the social media giant?
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ArticleCongress debates easing risk burden for banks as pot businesses grow
Momentum has been on the side of marijuana legalization. Now, there may be progress in allowing banks to legally take part in that expanding retail revolution.
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ArticleSEC once again dragged into fight over mandatory arbitration
The SEC was spared setting mandatory arbitration policy when New Jersey’s attorney general argued a shareholder initiative proposed for Johnson & Johnson would be illegal.