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NewsSmall company 404(b) exemption to survive
One big issue--but hardly the biggest--for Congress as it hammers out the final version of the historic financial reform bill is whether small companies will ever be required to comply with... Read more...
Apologies detract from real financial reform
Do apologies work? It seems that they do, given that many bank executives on the hot seat, not to mention Tiger Woods, have resorted to the tactic. The goal of course is to generates sympathy and... Read more...
GRC and green data centers
Data centers have taken on gargantuan importance as of late, especially in the financial services, biotechnology and other information- and data-driven sectors. Given that they are such power pigs,... Read more...
Buzzword alert: IT GRC
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...
Time to start thinking about continuous auditing?
Continuous auditing is one of those buzzwords that in some ways is more of a Holy Grail than an achievable goal. But the idea of real-time internal auditing, keeping up with every possible statistic... Read more...
CalPERS to re-ignite as governance force?
There was a day when CalPERS, the big California state pension, was a feared force in the world of corporate governance. It wasn't afraid to take stands against companies that underperformed. Ending... Read more...
Are you paying your GRC managers enough?
Even in these harsh economic times, compensation for governance, risk and compliance (GRC) executives seems to be going up, according to Robert Half Management Resources. Risk and compliance are even... Read more...
Golden era ending in accounting also?
None other than Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America, says that the golden era in financial services is ending. Can we say the same for the accounting profession, which was turbo charged by... Read more...
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