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Nothing is more painful from the IRS point of view than a corporate audit. They can be really complex and take several years. So it's not surprising that they are asking for help--from the companies... Read more...

Security managers have to justify their projects like all other managers. And it's become a common refrain to couch their programs' benefits in the rhetoric of compliance. This has been going on... Read more...

It's hardly a secret that cutting the collective carbon footprint of U.S. industry hovers near the top of the current administration's to-do list. Many companies have already been pondering their... Read more...

Recall that the FTC issued disclosure guidelines for bloggers, as part of its recent guidelines on advertising and endorsements--its first new missive on the subject in almost 30 years. Some have... Read more...

It's hardly a secret that cutting the collective carbon footprint of U.S. industry hovers near the top of the current administration's to-do list. Many companies have already been pondering their... Read more...

There's a new standard for compliance and risk executives to get to know: ISO 31000. The risk management standard was published last month after four years of development and many hours of... Read more...

The competition is fairly intense in the GRC industry right now. Companies caught in a miserable recession aren't investing like they used to, even risk management and compliance have been hit. So... Read more...

As part of the investors protection bill, a provision would permanently exempt nonaccelerated issuers (basically companies with than $75 million in market cap) from 404(b) attestation requirements of... Read more...

For a long time, I have been telling small companies that they might as well accept the reality of Sarbanes-Oxley 404(b) compliance, even as the SEC continues to grant more deadline extensions. The... Read more...

Compliance Week had some interesting observations--all of which are conversation starters--about internal auditing, and where it's headed. First of all, most practitioners draw a division between... Read more...