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5 Tips to Get Your Sustainability Story to the Stakeholders Who Matter
Sustainability reports are an important tool in a CFO’s strategic communications arsenal that helps attract employees, customers, and capital.
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Leigh Ann Johnston
| January 30, 2023
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Risk & Compliance
How Many of Your Primary Controls Are Preventive?
Fraud detection is good. Preventing fraud in the first place is even better.
By
Perry D. Wiggins
| September 1, 2021
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Corporate Finance
Anti-Trust: The Battle Over China-Based Issuers
China-based companies are still not complying with PCAOB audit inspections. Does Congress have the answer?
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Ramona Dzinkowski
| October 14, 2020
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Corporate Finance
Audit Partner Rotation Delivers Few Benefits: Study
Studies find no significant fall-offs in reporting quality over partners’ five-year tenures and little or no evidence of the benefits of "fresh looks."
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CFO Staff
| September 25, 2020
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Technology
How to Prevent RPA from Messing With Internal Controls
Accountability and governance throughout the RPA lifecycle are essential for mitigating fraud and maintaining effective controls.
By
Vincent Ryan
| March 23, 2020
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Human Capital
CEO Pay Is Higher When the CFO Is Newly Hired
Research suggests finance chiefs are prone in early years on the job to "manage earnings," perhaps because of compensation-motivated pressure from the boss.
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David McCann
| December 9, 2019
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Risk & Compliance
Audits Are Broken. Here’s a Radical Way to Fix Them.
A certain federal agency should take over all public company audits, suggests a former Big Four auditor and current accounting software company CEO.
By
David McCann
| November 27, 2019
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Risk Management
Fresh Evidence of Auditor Bias Emerges
Companies don't look good for penalizing honest auditors, while other auditors don't look good for rendering slanted opinions.
By
David McCann
| August 12, 2019
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Technology
SOX Compliance Doesn’t Get Easier With Time
Despite ongoing expectations to the contrary, complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act remains a moving target for companies.
By
David McCann
| July 16, 2019
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Auditing
‘Opinion-Shopping’ Compromises Auditor Independence
While it may serve the interests of struggling companies, shopping for a favorable audit opinion lessens auditor independence and audit quality.
By
David McCann
| May 8, 2019
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Risk Management
Audit Software Firm Nabs $40M in Funding
The startup, AuditBoard, offers a cloud-based platform for managing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and other aspects of internal auditing.
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Vincent Ryan
| August 15, 2018
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Risk & Compliance
When Are Execs Most Likely to Inflate Earnings?
Earnings management tends to occur not when a company is getting little or a lot of attention, but rather when it's in the middle of those extremes.
By
David McCann
| June 6, 2018
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Technology
How to Manage Cyber-Whistleblower Risk
Companies should pay specific attention to risks arising from the increasingly common whistleblower complaints regarding data breaches and cybersecurity.
By
Brian Fleming and William Barry
| March 8, 2018
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Risk & Compliance
Auditor Rotation Rules Miss Their Mark
Merely requiring companies to periodically invite bids for their audit business, or change engagement partners at the incumbent firm, doesn't do the job.
By
David McCann
| February 28, 2018
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Risk & Compliance
Supreme Court Whistleblower Ruling: Analysis
The decision likely won't have a substantial effect on companies, as significant protections for whistleblowers remain in place.
By
Robert Tuchman and Marc Rosen
| February 23, 2018
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Risk & Compliance
Auditor Independence Rule Isn’t Tough Enough
Requiring top corporate executives to be only a year or two removed from a prior job with the company's auditor is insufficient, study suggests.
By
David McCann
| February 12, 2018
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