- Taking on Financial Fraud (and Winning)
- In a white paper released this week at the BAI Combating Payments and Check Fraud Conference in Baltimore, Steve Solberg, fraud product manager at Fortent, outlines current fraud challenges and explains how banks are protecting themselves and their customers. [more]
- Risk Simplified
At what point is the risk of undertaking a project greater than the reward? [more]
- Evaluating Your Company's Risk Intelligence
- It's tough for anybody to read the news these days, with the constant barrage of terrorism and war, natural and man-made disasters, avian flu and other potential pandemics. [more]
- SAP Announces New Governance, Risk and Compliance Apps
As promised earlier this year, SAP AG will soon release three new governance, risk and compliance (GRC) applications based on its new service-oriented architecture (SOA). [more]
- D&O Insurance Becomes International Business Necessity
Companies that are expanding abroad or undertaking cross-border M&A activity must weigh their potential liabilities and explore coverages to mitigate the risks. [more]
- SEC Inquiries and Shareholder Lawsuits: How To Be Above Scrutiny
More and more publicly traded companies are receiving informal inquiries from the SEC. [more]
- Currency Risk: To Hedge or Hedge Not?
As the volume of cross-border transactions has skyrocketed over the past decade, many North American companies have failed to adopt policies for hedging their exposure to fluctuating foreign exchange (fx) rates, writes Karen M. [more]
- Embracing Post-IPO Risk
Taking a company public presents a world of new opportunities, but also a host of new risks. [more]
- Roundtable: Risk Management in Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions are on an upswing -- and so are the inherent risks in deals. [more]
- Navigating Rising Pension Risks
Market volatility and a complex compliance environment are making it increasingly difficult for companies to mitigate fiduciary risk in their pension plans, and a number of companies are freezing their plans to slow the growth of liabilities -- although this does little to alleviate market and mortality risks, according to Business Finance contributing editor Fay Hansen. [more]
- Daimler FAO Plan Sparks Controversy
DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche -- the mustachioed guy in the new TV ads -- hopes to save his company around $1.8 billion per year by cutting a fifth of its accounting, personnel and strategic planning staff worldwide, according to Forbes. [more]
- New Guidance on Risk in Financial Statement Audits
New audit risk standards require auditors to assess and understand risks to the entity's business -- and the controls in place to mitigate them. [more]
- Continuous Auditing Gathers Steam
Hot off the presses, PricewaterhouseCoopers' second annual State of the Internal Audit Profession Study found that half of the U.S. [more]
- Accounting Today Editor Carlino Blasts AICPA for Data Loss
In an editorial this week, Accounting Today editor-in-chief Bill Carlino took the American Association of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to task -- gently, but firmly -- for losing a hard drive containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of 330,000 of its members. [more]
- A Fine Line Between Whistleblowing and Sabotage
A few high profile court cases in the wake of the mighty corporate scandals earlier in this decade sided with insiders who "blew the whistle" on corporate misdeeds -- perhaps to send a message to big business, and encourage others to do the same. [more]
- AICPA Member Data Missing Since February
These days if you want privacy, follow these guidelines: don't keep your money in a bank, don't join the military, and don't join any professional organizations. [more]
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