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Governance, risk and compliance has become, through lots of vendor effort, something of a buzzword--in a good way. It's on the map. People think they ought to know what it means. But what about IT... Read more...

The goal of AS5 was to streamline 404 compliance and generally reduce the imperative to test everything under the sun when it comes to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. The third annual survey looking at... Read more...

A new bi-partisan proposal by Senators Dick Durbin and Charles Grassley would change "many of the rules companies must follow to obtain temporary work visas, known as H-1Bs and L-1s. The most... Read more...

The idea of better risk management has been discussed ad nauseum in the financial services industry. But other industries are taking up the issue as well. According to CFO.com, interest in hiring a... Read more...

You are right to worry about your e-discovery obligations these days. They are critical for just about any company; you never know when you are going to sue or get sued. But compliance, when it comes... Read more...

Enterprise risk management is a hot topic these days. Disclosure management, in this litigious era, has perhaps never been more crucial. There's a lot of risk associated with ineffective disclosure... Read more...

Top exchanges have long blamed Sarbanes-Oxley for making IPOs that much more scarce. The reality may not be simple, but you can hardly blame exchange officials for lambasting anything that cuts into... Read more...

A lot of compliance people once viewed PDAs and smart phones with dread. They seemed like a security and compliance nightmare. But you can stand in the way of progress and cool technology for only so... Read more...

We've noted that SEC Chairman Linda Shapiro was a bit coy early on regarding a few big issues, such as the projected rollout of IFRS in the United States. She offering a few more clues as of late.... Read more...

Large accelerated filers are likely well on their way down the XBRL learning path; some have been experimenting for quite some time. But smaller companies perhaps have farther to go. Of course, they... Read more...