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Directors & Boards Reader Profile: Major Findings from this Year’s Benchmarking Report
October 12 2011
Each month, Directors & Boards asks a reader to comment on critical issues facing directors today. This past month Directors & Boards asked for ideas on improving the effectiveness of the annual meeting of shareholders. Here is a selection of responses.
What were the major findings from this year’s Corporate Governance and Compliance Hotline Benchmarking Report from The Network and BDO Consulting?
The highlights from this year’s benchmarking report centered on four key…
Ensuring Employees Report Misconduct Internally
October 04 2011
by Andrew Singer, editor-in-chief, Ethikos
Industry data suggest that most employees still want to ‘go internal’ when they see something wrong, according to Luis Ramos, Chief Executive Officer, The Network, Inc. (Norcross, GA). They prefer to tell a manager, an ethics officer, or a human resources specialist about misconduct rather than go ‘outside’—to a government agency like the SEC, say.
There are some practical things corporations can do to ensure that…
Making Audits More Audible
October 03 2011
by Sarah Johnson, senior editor for risk & compliance, CFO Magazine
New rules would require auditors to speak up about possible problems, and describe in more detail what they do and don’t look at.
The succinctness of an audit opinion belies the many hours of review, reconciliations, and judgments that are required for an auditor to produce it. Despite all that work, the public audit opinion ultimately amounts to little more than…
Turning Work Into Play: Gamifying Your Comms
September 15 2011
by Nishwa Ashraf, Strategic Communication Management, September 2011
Games offer immediate feedback, can encourage collaboration and engage people for performing a task and learning new skills to progress
Upon returning home one day, she discovered that her apartment had been ransacked, and her father’s journal stolen. Her father, Ferdinand, had traveled the world as a cartographer before his death and kept a journal of his adventures, which he shared with her when she…
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IN THE NEWS
Top 12 GRC Considerations for Financial Companies in 2012
While regulation is certainly not a new concept to the financial industry, the risks posed by regulatory non-compliance will continue to drive global enterprises to tighten their focus on risk management – literally, the center of GRC – and find the balance between business value and business ethics.
PRESS RELEASES
The Network and BDO Consulting Release 3Q Quarter 2011 Findings in the Corporate Fraud Index
Led by reports of theft, fraud incident reporting sets high mark; reporting volume increases substantially from previous year.
