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Deloitte's deep regulatory influence
Is Deloitte the Goldman Sachs of the accounting industry? Few audit firms have been as controversial recently as Deloitte. Just look at the tension over the recent PCAOB rebuke of the company's audit
Directors' attitudes toward risk management
Since the financial crisis, corporate boards have been forced to grapple in greater detail with risk management. So we may see directors laser in on these issue over the next year or so, a wise move
Evaluating Dodd-Frank "say on pay" requirement
Recall that the Dodd-Frank Act required public companies to hold say on pay votes on compensation packages of the top executives and golden parachutes. These votes, while non-binding, generated a lot
Internal auditors should focus more on risk management
We've suggested that in the overall GRC equation, the R (risk management) and G (governance) are taking precedent over the C (compliance), which at many companies was the original impetus for more
Should directors be accountable for all compliance activity?
More than 400 board members were surveyed about their feelings on various corporate governance issues at the recent Corporate Board Member and NYSE Euronext's Annual Boardroom Summit. Here's one
Do corporate directors deserve a raise?
There's been a lot of talk recently about rising pay for corporate directors. Most has been tinged with criticism that pay is rising while performance has lagged. But others insist that directors
Lingering identity crisis for GRC industry?
We've wondered before whether the GRC industry ( GRC news) was facing something of an identity crisis , even as the market matures. The fact remains that the term GRC encompasses a lot of terrain, and
What's next for the PCAOB
Finally, the Supreme Court has had its say, and the employees of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ( PCAOB news) can breathe a sigh of relief, and then get right back to work. As the New
Do CFOs belong on boards?
When it comes to putting chief financial officers ( CFO news) on the board of public companies, there are two ways to look at it. You could easily argue that having insiders on the board is always
Director pay soars
The conventional wisdom is that the job of director has gotten a lot harder since the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley ( Sarbanes-Oxley news) in 2002. It's not really seen as a junket job the way it once
