All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 970
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Google and its last-minute tax deals
There is a troubling trend for large companies to equate risk appetite with tax avoidance. Just ask Google, as the company is in talks to correct taxation of its Italian business.
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ArticleMary Gentile: The practical ethicist
Mary Gentile is one of the ethics field’s most renowned educators for her results-based ethics training that doesn’t ask: “What is the right thing to do,” but rather: “How do we get the right thing done?”
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A double whammy for the cosy club
Directors in the United States and United Kingdom are facing increasingly divergent realities when it comes to regulatory accountability. And that gap is only growing.
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ArticleKurt Drake: The integration master
Before joining Kimberly-Clark as its chief ethics and compliance officer in 2016, Kurt Drake already had more than 20 years of global ethics and compliance and finance experience.
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Preventing False Claims Act liability
During a recent panel, federal and state officials, corporate defense attorneys, and whistleblower reps alike debated the ins and outs of U.S. FCA cases and how to defend them.
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Artificial intelligence and the financial services sector
Across financial services, the allure of greater compliance efficiency at markedly lower cost makes investing in regulatory technology an easy sell.
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The director dilemma: a love/hate relationship with shareholders
One lesson to come out of the Wells Fargo shareholder meeting: Directors and shareholders should fight to preserve their contentious relationship.
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Applying the Milgram Experiment to compliance
Good behavior comes from constant reinforcement by a voice of authority, because most people actually need permission to do the right thing.
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ArticleTechnical conclusions taking shape in revenue recognition
Technical consensus is starting to gel in certain aspects of the new revenue recognition accounting requirements, but the answers are not black and white.
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FASB clarifies stock compensation, service agreement accounting
In a pair of updates to accounting standards, the FASB is looking to shore up differences in how companies account for stock compensation and service concession arrangements.
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FASB asks for ideas to make GAAP Taxonomy easier to use
Companies that have struggled with navigating the U.S. GAAP Taxonomy to complete their XBRL filings will want to weigh in on the effort to make it more useable.
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KBR names new chief accounting officer
KBR appointed Raymond Carney as its new vice president and chief accounting officer, effective May 30.
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Assurant names chief accounting officer
Assurant, a global provider of risk management solutions, has appointed Daniel Pacicco as senior vice president, chief accounting officer, and controller, effective June 1. He will report directly to Richard Dziadzio, Assurant’s chief financial officer and treasurer.
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Bill seeks to restore OSHA recordkeeping rules
Democrats in both chambers of Congress have sponsored legislation to reinstate OSHA recordkeeping rules that were nullified by President Trump in April using the Congressional Review Act.
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Washington reacts to a month of cyber-attacks
In the aftermath of one of the largest global cyber-attacks in history, Congress is considering new legislation and quizzing the FCC over a separate attack that compromised its collection of public comments on net neutrality.
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Executive Order focuses on cyber-threats, agency responses
President Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order that lays out a variety of cyber-security tasks for government agencies and formalizes how they report back to the Executive Branch.
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Microsoft: Why we are adopting ISO 37001
In a recent blog post, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel explains why it decided to become the first U.S. and multinational company to seek ISO 37001 certification, and why other companies should do the same.
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Bill Baer to rejoin Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Bill Baer, former Acting Associate Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the Department of Justice, will rejoin the firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer as partner on June 1, 2017, resident in the Washington office.
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Software demoACL’s three foundational steps to compliance management
Let us help with ACL’s approach to simplify compliance. Join Cory McBain, product designer at ACL, who’ll provide you with a high-level overview of how ACL’s compliance platform can reduce your burden of compliance, with a data-driven approach.
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IASB issues big change in accounting for insurance contracts
The IASB has issued new standard on how to account for insurance contracts, considered among the most significant changes ever made to international accounting rules.