Surveys & Benchmarking

Companies looking to expand their global footprint or invest for the first time in new, unfamiliar regions of the world may want to check out a new index that ranks countries by the complexity of their compliance requirements.

Banks appear all over the spectrum in terms of their readiness for CECL, with equal numbers implementing the new model or still in the early stages, a new poll says.

Companies are migrating toward automating their internal control over financial reporting, according to a recent survey by Financial Executives Research Foundation.

Knowing how to properly manage risk across the company’s entire contract portfolio is a critical part of maintaining compliance with contractual agreements and ensuring that contracts remain current and in line with regulatory requirements in the United States and abroad.

The Bank of England thinks the United Kingdom has made positive “progress” on handling the risks of disruption to financial services likely to be caused by Brexit, but adds there has been a lack of similar action from the European Union.

Investors are not getting much warning about assets and liabilities soon to hit corporate balance sheets as companies prepare to adopt new lease accounting rules.

According to recent studies, there is a high demand in Europe for chief compliance officers and companies are willing to pay big bucks for top talent.

A significant piece of the compliance regime is overseeing third-party business relationships, and the best way to keep them on track is to employ the business sponsor.

A new survey from Convercent and Compliance Week indicates that the top-performing compliance departments increasingly are starting to invest in technology solutions that support a data-driven program.

We polled practitioners on 11 key topics in ethics and compliance at the recently concluded Compliance Week 2018 conference. Check out the results to help you benchmark your own programs. 

Leading compliance programs more often use technology tools than do their peers, according to the results of PwC’s annual State of Compliance study. These include data analysis tools, dashboards, continuous monitoring, data warehousing, data extraction tools, and a GRC solution.

With only six months to the effective date of a new lease accounting rule, more than half of companies have not started to prepare, according to a new survey.

Restatements took another downward dip in 2017, suggesting continued improvement in financial reporting quality, according to the newest study from Audit Analytics.

A panel of experts spoke at Compliance Week 2018 on how to embed anti-corruption procedures into the compliance function.

Data protection experts are emphatic about what a company’s first reaction should be if it believes it is not fully GDPR compliant as 25 May approaches: Don’t panic.

Recent analyses show that many companies don’t have adequate visibility into their third parties, and even less so their third parties’ third parties and beyond (so-called Nth parties).

There are three key areas that can help boards of directors to establish and maintain an effective compliance program—structure, culture, and risk management.

Corporate filings flagging doubt over a company’s ability to continue as a going concern reached a low in 2016, according to the newest research.

One of the most significant innovations in compliance will come through the incorporation of blockchain. 

Formalized, comprehensive approaches to ERM are not terribly baked into corporate practices, according to a recent study by the accounting profession.

New academic research suggests there is indeed a correlation between pressure on audit fees and audit quality — and it’s not pretty.

According to a new report, forensic data analysis yields better compliance and risk management, but few are actively collaborating on making it a reality.

With the Olympics underway, now is a good time for compliance officers to review how they ensure their corporate spokespeople and their own codes of conduct are in sync.

Compliance Week looks back at the last 12 months and offers a glimpse at some of the biggest news stories in compliance, governance, risk, and ethics.