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Scott Adams on Board Governance: From Financial Rounds
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Speeding Skateboarder on the Loose: Police in southern Germany are on the hunt for a dangerous criminal -- a speeding skateboarder. [more]
Black Lab Rattles After Eating Golf Balls: Oscar, a five-year-old black Labrador retriever, has a talent for finding golf balls -- but he doesn't retrieve them, he eats them. [more]
Son Ends Up in His Father's Old Dorm Room: Mike Robell, a freshman at Michigan State University, got a big surprise when he moved into his dorm room -- he found that it's the same room his father lived in three decades ago. [more]
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Risk Management Alerts

How Resilient Is the Global Supply Chain?: Global sourcing has become a strategic necessity, but companies don't have a good grip on the risks it poses. [more]
Why Internal Audit Is More Valuable Than Ever: As enterprise leaders survey the wreckage caused by massive failures of risk management models in the financial sector, they should be taking another look at one of their own primary bulwarks against risk: internal audit. [more]
Ethics and Compliance: Are We There Yet?: Five-plus years after Sarbanes-Oxley, companies face ever-increasing regulatory compliance demands and new ethical challenges raised by a more complex and global business environment, according to risk consultancy LRN. [more]
Drill, Baby, Drill: All politics aside, promising GRC initiatives too often only scrapes the surface. [more]
Curbs on Heavy-Handed White-Collar Crime Investigations?: The Department of Justice has presented new white-collar crime guidance. [more]
Transfer Pricing Under the Microscope: Tax authorities in the United States and around the world are stepping up their scrutiny of multinational companies' cross-border transfers. [more]
A New Map of the GRC Universe: The Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) has released an updated version of its GRC Capability Model, aka the Red Book. [more]
Are You Ready for Carbon Finance?: National legislation to control greenhouse gas emissions is looking more and more likely after the upcoming presidential election, and it will deeply impact companies' financial statements. [more]
Flu Pandemic Inevitable, WHO Dysfunctional, Says U.K. Government: Think the bird flu threat is over-hyped -- or over? [more]
Business Continuity Lessons From the Great Flood of '08: The Midwest floods caught many companies flat-footed and punched holes in their disaster response plans. [more]
ERM Still a Work in Progress at Life Insurance Companies: Financial services providers have long been the vanguard of enterprise risk management (ERM), but even these early adopters still haven't finished tweaking their programs. [more]
Risk-Adjusted Performance: A Primer: CFOs can play a key role in developing a realistic, risk-aware performance management strategy to help their organization neutralize threats, exploit opportunities, and avoid nasty surprises. [more]
Characteristics of SOX Compliance Leaders: The primary insight of a new KPMG report on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance progress is that the majority of companies have shifted from a "get it done" compliance mentality to a "make it business as usual. [more]
A Goldmine of Risk Prevention Data: Here's a boon for risk managers: commercial and property insurance giant FM Global has decided to offer thousands of pages of its property loss prevention engineering guidelines for free at its Web site. [more]
Rightsizing the Risks Around Employee Rewards: The risks associated with employee compensation and benefits programs are multitudinous and can be mission-threatening, as the options backdating scandal revealed. [more]
Never Mind the GAAP: The likelihood of the SEC requiring companies to file their financial reports using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) instead of GAAP -- probably by 2013-- appears to be a certainty. [more]
Enforcement Up, Corruption Up: While anti-corruption enforcement has grown stronger worldwide, some executives believe that business practices are becoming more corrupt, according to the Ernst & Young survey "Corruption or compliance — weighing the costs: the 10th global fraud survey. [more]
Top 10 Opportunities for G&A Savings: Whether we're already in a recession, heading into one, or just in a slowdown, belt-tightening is much on the minds of consumers and corporate strategists alike. [more]
S&P Rolls Out ERM Review: It's official: Standard & Poor's wants to talk to you about your enterprise risk management (ERM) program. [more]
Time to Tighten Your FCPA Compliance?: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has been a focus of enforcement efforts by the SEC and the U.S. [more]