Surveys & Benchmarking

Tax departments need to tool up to be ready for the kinds of tax planning that will occur in the coming 12 months, especially under tax reform, survey says.

Investor confidence in auditors and in capital markets in general fell in 2018, according to the annual poll by the Center for Audit Quality.

Total pay for outside directors at the nation’s largest corporations increased by a mere 3 percent in 2017, driven by increases in cash and stock compensation, according to a new analysis by Willis Towers Watson.

Half of the largest public companies saw SOX-related audit costs rise in 2017, driven by regulatory pressure, M&A activity, and new accounting rules.

A new study from Robert Half and the Financial Executives Research Foundation reveals how evolving technology is rapidly enhancing the accounting and finance functions.

A pair of new poll results suggest anxiety is growing at public companies that have five months remaining until new lease accounting rules take effect.

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).