All Resource articles – Page 24
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Navigating the New Road to Revenue Recognition
Navigating the new revenue standard is one of the biggest challenges to face accounting practitioners in recent years. To help with this challenge, Bloomberg BNA has released a special report, Navigating the New Road to Revenue Recognition. This report provides you with the in-depth analysis you need to better understand ...
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Hidden Costs of Compliance: Reducing Transactional Tax Risk
Debates over online sales tax and related statutory rules and rate changes have vaulted sales and use tax compliance to the top of every finance organization’s 2015 action list. The challenge is on to understand how to implement safeguards and systems, monitor widely varying statutory rules, and find efficient ways ...
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The Power of Perception: Employees' Views on U.S. Corporate Tax & Accounting Strategies
U.S. corporations aren’t strangers to having their internal operations in the public spotlight. Throughout 2014, a notable amount of attention has been paid to organizations’ plans to pursue a mix of questionable tax strategies, in hopes of lowering their effective tax rate. Tactics from inversions to double Irish arrangements have ...
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Root Causes and Business Implications of FCPA Investigations and Enforcement
More than 90 percent of all FCPA-related investigations and enforcement involve the activities of third parties. The global fight against corruption continues to increase–more regulations, enforcement, cross-border cooperation and penalties. A bribe paid by one of your third parties could do incalculable damage to your reputation and your bottom line. ...
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Top 10 Ethics & Compliance Recommendations for 2015
What should you be tracking with regard to ethics and compliance this year? Is your program prepared? We asked industry experts, colleagues and ethics and compliance officers what they see as the top issues pertaining to ethics and compliance in 2015. We’ve gathered their best thinking and prepared a summary ...
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Five Steps to Enhance the Board’s Oversight of Cyber Risk
The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), in collaboration with AIG and the Internet Security Alliance, has just released its latest issue from the Director's Handbook Series, Cyber-Risk Oversight. The handbook is organized around five key principles to help directors enhance their oversight of cybersecurity. It covers a wide range ...
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How to avoid common pitfalls in your ORSA process
As with so many regulatory mandates, the development of an ORSA Summary Report is dependent upon much more than just data. Regulators are looking beyond the final numbers to determine if organizations are meeting the mandate, and the process used to get that final report is under equal scrutiny. While ...
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How Confident Are You In Your Corporate Tax Strategy?
As corporate tax complexity increases, so does the risk of mistakes, penalties, and missed opportunities. This Bloomberg BNA white paper discusses the changing landscape of the tax department, the problems with current tax management efforts, and how companies can leverage tax automation software to reduce risk and optimize their tax ...
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e-Book: Getting a Handle on Third-Party Relationships
Companies have always relied on several third-party specialists and service providers to help carry out the work that they do. Vendors, suppliers, resellers, wholesalers, consultants, and many others have been part of the business equation for nearly as long as companies have existed. What is different now is how entwined ...
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e-Book: Charting a New Course for Internal Audit
The evolution of internal audit from a function primarily concerned with financial risks to one that covers a broader array of risks is compelling companies to look for internal audit leaders with more diverse backgrounds and work experiences, who bring to the post a broader set of skills. Management, audit ...
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e-Book: What to Look Out for When Implementing the COSO Framework Update
Like a house built with a solid frame, internal controls are at the core of ensuring effective compliance and risk management. Two recent developments have spurred companies to review that system of internal controls. The first is an update, published by COSO last year, to the framework most public companies ...
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Auditor Evaluation Report: Peer Benchmarking, Auditor Profile and Risk Indicators for the Audit Committee
There are two truths about corporate compliance: No universal solution exists for all businesses, and everyone wants to know what everyone else is doing. As part of our effort to better serve the compliance community, we are pleased to introduce Compliance Week Data & Research Division. With this report, we ...
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White Paper: Identifying Vendor Risk
An effective vendor relationship management program starts with knowing what the risks are. You can’t manage what you don’t know; therefore, you need to create assessments that help you clearly identify the risks of doing business with third parties. This includes vendors, service providers, suppliers, contractors, and other people and ...
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Managing Cyber Risk: Are Companies Safeguarding Their Assets?
To get a better grasp on how U.S. boards are handling cyber security roles and responsibilities, NYSE Governance Services, Corporate Board Member and RSA, in association with EY, surveyed more than 200 audit committee members this spring on a variety of issues regarding their cyber risk oversight program. This paper ...
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e-Book: Employment Compliance & Payroll: Wrapping Up 2014
As 2015 fast approaches, getting a handle on new and existing employment tax compliance and payroll is as daunting a task as ever before. In this e-Book, produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with ADP, you will learn what companies can do to navigate a regulatory and accounting minefield that ...
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Risk Intelligence: Harnessing Risk, Exploiting Opportunity
This RSA white paper explains how organizations can change discussion about risk from the “risk landscape” to the “opportunity landscape.” Organizations need to show how proactively managing risk becomes an enabler to explore opportunities, rather than simply avoiding landmines.
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e-Book: Getting a Grip on Third-Party Entity Risk
Most global companies conduct business with thousands of suppliers, resellers, distributors, joint-venture partners, and other third-parties. These business partners create risks, and those risks keep expanding. In this e-Book, produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with NAVEX Global, we look at how companies are assessing third-party risks and adopting strategies ...
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Is the Cloud Ready for You?
Cloud Computing is the latest, ‘next best thing’ in the IT industry. Organizations are under seemingly irresistible pressure, both internally and externally, to commit to this new model of computing. Whether you are enthusiastic about cloud computing or not, it is here to stay and has a compelling wave of ...