All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 950

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Individual prosecutions as deterrence

2017-02-13T18:30:00Z

Perhaps it’s not the penalties and fines, but rather the individual prosecutions that deter bad behavior. The Man From FCPA Tom Fox reports.
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Asian corporate governance codes unlocked

2017-02-13T18:45:00Z

The corporate governance expectations across Asia are both more widely varied, and in harmony with each other, than one might expect. But there is still a great deal of information to track. Paul Hodgson gets into the details.
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British police act as financial regulator in HBOS takedown

2017-02-14T09:15:00Z

British police arrested six people this week—two of them managers of banking and insurance firm HBOS—to end a six-year fraud investigation into a decade-old scandal. Neil Hodge reports.
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Global anti-corruption enforcement numbers going up

2017-02-14T10:15:00Z

Tom Fox discusses the reasons behind the rise in anti-corruption enforcement and the latest actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice.
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Auditors prepare to inspect revenue recognition adoption

2017-02-14T11:00:00Z

Public companies beware: Auditors plans to scrutinize the impending switch to new revenue recognition accounting. Tammy Whitehouse reports.
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Hallmarks of an effective ethics and compliance program

2017-02-14T11:45:00Z

You want a really top-notch ethics and compliance program? Then create a values-based workplace culture and forget about all those check-the-box metrics. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Weighing the issues of ISO 37001 certification

2017-02-14T12:00:00Z

Questions have emerged from the passing of the ISO 37001 anti-bribery standards. Jaclyn Jaeger recaps a recent KPMG webinar that seeks to answer them.
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Finding the hidden risks in sales practices

2017-02-14T13:30:00Z

As financial institutions pursue aggressive new sales goals, organizations need proactive, independent review of their own sales practices, write guest columnists Chris Sicuranza and Paul Noring.
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Fiduciary rule follies: court ruling creates presidential dilemmas

2017-02-14T14:00:00Z

The Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule passed its latest legal challenge, with a dressing down of plaintiff’s concerns by a federal judge in Texas. The ball is now in the Trump Administration’s court. Joe Mont reports.
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FASB to host roundtables on defining materiality in GAAP

2017-02-14T14:30:00Z

FASB is hosting roundtable meetings in March to discuss defining materiality in accounting standards, a can of worms it opened in 2015 in connection to disclosures.
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Toyota appoints group vice president, chief compliance officer

2017-02-15T10:30:00Z

Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) has appointed Jacqueline Thomas group vice president, chief compliance officer.
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Accounting for non-GAAP earnings measures

2017-02-15T10:45:00Z

Alternative performance measures are valuable when properly used, but should traditional income statements include them? Guest columnist Gary Kabureck discusses.
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Trump signs bill repealing extractive payments rule

2017-02-15T13:45:00Z

President Donald Trump has signed legislation repealing controversial rules designed to heighten transparency in the oil and natural gas industry. Jaclyn Jaeger has more on reaction from the oil and gas industry.
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New IIA Pulse report will focus on overlooked risks

2017-02-15T20:00:00Z

An upcoming report from the Institute of Internal Auditors will tell audit executives to turn their attention to overlooked risks as a way to win more confidence.
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Audit change data shows differences at Big 4 firms

2017-02-17T09:45:00Z

In the churn for new auditors, one Big 4 firm has held steady with its net number of audit clients while three others have seen net losses numbering in the 20s. Tammy Whitehouse has the results of the latest data from Audit Analytics.
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Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Utilities & Energy Compliance Conference

2017-02-19T00:00:00Z

Grand Hyatt Washington1000 H Street NWWashington, D.C., DC 20001United States
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On the evaluation of corporate compliance programs

2017-02-21T06:30:00Z

Tom Fox looks at the Justice Department’s “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs,” an 11-part list of questions that encapsulates the Justice Department’s most current thinking on what constitutes a best practices compliance program.
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A South American response to corruption

2017-02-21T06:45:00Z

In a very interesting development from the Odebrecht corruption scandal, federal prosecutors in Brazil and ten other countries recently announced they had agreed to cooperate in ongoing investigations surrounding the company, writes The Man From FCPA Tom Fox.
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Spain and the fight against royal corruption

2017-02-21T07:00:00Z

A guilty verdict that sent the brother-in-law of the King of Spain to jail for fraud could signal that Spain is getting serious about corruption. Tom Fox says it was the first time a member of the Spanish royal family had been forced to stand trial, a move widely applauded ...
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SEC, NASAA sign info-sharing agreement for crowdfunding

2017-02-21T09:15:00Z

The North American Securities Administrators Association, representing the interests of state securities agencies, and the Securities and Exchange Commission signed an information-sharing agreement as new rules to facilitate intrastate crowd-funding offerings and regional offerings take effect. Jaclyn Jaeger has more.