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When: Thursday, May 29, 2008, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (EDT) In an era of increased corporate accountability, participants will gain valuable insight on how to prepare an appropriate fraud control policy for an organization and why it is so important for employees to have a clear understanding of their responsibilities for fraud control. Topics include: * Fraud control - why is it a concern? * Developing a formal fraud control policy/strategy * Preparing a formal fraud risk assessment * Benchmarking your organization's whistle-blower hotline * Providing your employees a clear understanding of their responsibilities for fraud controlSee full...
When: Tuesday, Mar 25, 2008Time: 2:00 P.M. ETDuration: 1 hourSummaryAmong the many unintended consequences of Sarbanes-Oxley was a new acronym: GRC. Born of an (intended) emphasis on improving governance, risk, and compliance, the acronym was quickly appropriated by providers of everything from document management to ERP. But while software plays a role, GRC is really a management discipline: it's about how to balance the often-competing demands of regulators, shareholders, customers and market forces, all without running afoul of an increasingly tangled thicket of regulatory demands.Because the information, roles, responsibilities, and even budgets involved in GRC fall across many different business units, the CFO is often the most logical champion of an integrated approach. But even as...
Courion Corporation Rachel Weeks, 508-661-0467 rweeks@courion.com or For Courion Corporation fama PR Nikki Festa, 617-758-4175 courion@famapr.com Courion(R) Corporation, the provisioning experts for results-driven operations, today announced a strategic partnership with Michael Rasmussen, president of Corporate Integrity, (and formerly of Forrester Research, Inc.) to provide education and awareness around the topic ofGovernance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), and the integral role of Identity and Access Management. As part of this partnership, Courion will host a webinar on Tuesday, March 18, "Identity Management (IdM): A Foundation for Governance, Risk, and Compliance."Who: Kurt Johnson, vice president of corporate development, Courion and Michael Rasmussen, president, Corporate Integrity...
You don’t want to travel to an unfamiliar destination without a map. The same holds true for companies navigating the road to Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance.Many companies have reaped significant benefits by following the new guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as the revised auditing standard from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). This new guidance is principles-based, which allows companies the flexibility to further navigate and appropriately scope their approach to compliance.By getting a handle on their internal controls, companies can reduce the risk of making material misstatements in financial reports and minimize the possibility of fraud. And by anticipating what can go wrong, global companies and small companies...
For many foreign investors, China represents the great unknown. Even global companies that have invested heavily in China find that ascending the learning-curve can be a gradual process. Directors are still not certain how to perform strategic oversight and risk management with respect to investments in China. Boards need to manage such challenges strategically, rather than reactively. They do not, however, have the luxury of time to figure out how.Highlights: * What’s driving U.S. companies to make acquisitions in China, and what implications does this have for the board? (1:38) * What’s the best way to educate a board about China? (16:05) * How should boards deal with enterprise risk when it comes to ensuring products from China are safe, especially in light of the recent...
In response to a series of corporate scandals, Congressman Michael Oxley and Senator Paul Sarbanes sponsored the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002. Conceived as an investor protection law, this wide-ranging legislation impacted U.S. public companies in many ways. Supporters of these reforms applaud SOX as necessary and useful, while critics have consistently voiced concerns over cost and resource requirements of compliance. It’s time to take another look.Highlights: * Has the impact of SOX been predictable? Or have there been surprises? (5:48) * Do Section 404 provisions focus too narrowly on short-term results? (16:23) * How would you assess the impact of SOX on the marketplace? (25:09) * Is there a measurable performance strategy available to companies that will enable them...
Who: Kurt Johnson, vice president of corporate development, Courion and Michael Rasmussen, president, Corporate IntegrityWhat: The webinar, “Identity Management (IdM): A Foundation for Governance, Risk and Compliance,” will feature industry expert Michael Rasmussen who will provide insight and practical advice on the role of Identity Management as a foundation for effective GRC infrastructure. Attendees will learn: * How Identity Management and GRC fit together - including controlling access across the enterprise and the importance of managing companies’ internal and external user identities * How effective Identity Management will drive demonstrable compliance – including the critical use of provisioning, roles/entitlement management, password management, and policy...
Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2008Among the many unintended consequences of Sarbanes-Oxley was a new acronym: GRC. Born of an (intended) emphasis on improving governance, risk, and compliance, the acronym was quickly appropriated by providers of everything from document management to ERP. But while software plays a role, GRC is really a management discipline: it's about how to balance the often-competing demands of regulators, shareholders, customers and market forces, all without running afoul of an increasingly tangled thicket of regulatory demands.Because the information, roles, responsibilities, and even budgets involved in GRC fall across many different business units, the CFO is often the most logical champion of an integrated approach. But even as traditional managers of risk, and even with...
Exclusive, live debate on the concept, perception and evaluation of corporate risk.‘Risk’ is now one of the most important words in the business lexicon, but it has a wide range of different meanings to different stakeholders.For those who take ethical shortcuts, it can mean the risk of getting caught: for the board it can mean the internal and external factors that might impede success, while for others it can mean downside events that can be insured or hedged against.For the entrepreneur, risk is not only the thrill on the way to success, but also relates to the failure of not taking a risk. Risk and probability underpin all our thinking about the future and yet we are consistently bad at making forecasts.See full...
What is the role of the finance director in managing exposure to risk while continuing to deliver performance?The majority of enterprises have experienced material risk events in the past three years – with nearly half that number admitting they were under-prepared for its consequences. But for companies of all shapes and sizes, business is more complex and more risky. Globalisation is putting an additional burden on an already full finance agenda, with traditional barriers for global sources and uses of financial, physical, human and social capital disappearing. How should finance directors and their teams respond to this new environment and what is their role in managing exposure to risk while continuing to deliver performance? Access...
Experts, including Sir Paul Judge, Richard Raeburn and Ken Lever discuss the 'concept' of risk‘Risk’ is now one of the most important words in the business lexicon, but it has a wide range of different meanings to different stakeholders.To register for this event, taking place on Monday 26 November, 3pm, click here.For those who take ethical shortcuts, it can mean the risk of getting caught:for the board it can mean the internal and external factors that might impede success, while for others it can mean downside events that can be insured or hedged against. For the entrepreneur, risk is not only the thrill on the way to success, but also relates to the failure of not taking a risk.See full...
Dormant for years, the best of breed (BOB) vs. ERP debate has rekindled now that enterprise resource planning vendors have awakened to the importance of beefing up their business suites with compliance and risk-management capabilties. Business Finance Editor in Chief Jack Sweeney talks with compliance expert Eric Krell about his recent feature discussing ERP's growing GRC ambitions. Click here to download the podcast of this interview.See...
The Bank Board Performance Series is a comprehensive program of webcasts and supplements providing directors with the tools and information they need. The series includes webcasts from leading experts in investment banking, accounting, compensation, strategic planning, technology and the legal field, and is designed to provide bank directors with insight on the most critical issues they'll face in the coming year.See full...
David O'Reilly of Chevron talks about the value of energy assets, Iraq, competition from China, and how to control carbon emissions.See streaming...
What Directors are Thinking: National Survey Results & Discussion Executive & Board Compensation: What's Working and What Isn't Director Liability: Understanding & Mitigating the Personal Risk of Board Service Board Evaluations: Why Effective Board Evaluations Create Great Boards Behind the Curtain: Everything You Want to Know About ISS and Its Impact on Public Companies A Look into the SEC's Crystal Ball.Format: The online conference will include streaming audio and video over the Internet. Participants will be able to view and download the presentations from the webinar console. See full...
An Online Conference to Help Directors Navigate ISS, Compensation, Board Evaluations & Director LiabilityWhat Directors are Thinking: National Survey Results & DiscussionExecutive & Board Compensation: What's Working and What Isn'tDirector Liability: Understanding & Mitigating the Personal Risk of Board ServiceBoard Evaluations: Why Effective Board Evaluations Create Great BoardsBehind the Curtain: Everything You Want to Know About ISS and Its Impact on Public CompaniesA Look into the SEC's Crystal BallFormat: The online conference will include streaming audio and video over the Internet. Participants will be able to view and download the presentations from the webinar console. See full...
A Deloitte Consulting LLP & Corporate Board Member InitiativeDeloitte Consulting’s senior principal provides a project update on director attitudes and practices on information technology.See...
Deloitte Canada Insights podcastCompanies have long recognized the importance of good corporate citizenship. But the definition of corporate responsibility is evolving. While it once meant looking after employees and supporting local charities, it now encompasses a much broader range of issues, from the labour conditions of low-cost country suppliers to the mitigation of global environmental impacts. What now distinguishes leading corporate responsibility practices is the way a company aligns its business operations with environmental, social and governance initiatives.See full Press Release and...
Date: June 21, 2007Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ETManaging the relationships across three or four generations in the workforce is a key issue for companies. This question repeatedly surfaced during the 2007 Women's Leadership Conference held in March in New York and in April in San Diego. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and Ernst & Young show webcast participants how they are addressing this issue for their companies as a whole and for women in particular. Conference and pre-conference workshop attendees may attend this webcast at no cost. All others who did not attend the conference are welcome to join this webcast for a nominal fee.This webcast will discuss: * How companies define the generations in the workplace and whether this issue resonates differently among women * How companies can...
Date: May 30, 2007Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ETExpressing their risk appetite — the amount of uncertainty companies decide they will face over a given period of time-can be a difficult undertaking for companies. Ultimately, the value of defining and quantifying any company's risk appetite is to provide guidance to enable the businesses to meet strategic objectives. An explicit risk appetite offers greater transparency for managers as well as investors. This web cast explores how companies define risk appetite, how risk appetite relates to risk tolerance, and how valuable these tools can be for planning and decision-making processes. See full...
When: Access AnytimeMany business leaders and IT managers believe they are in compliance with all the federal and state information security regulations affecting them. That may be true but at what cost to the organization? Being compliant in a defensive context and proactively managing compliance as an ongoing business process are very different from each other. Unfortunately, more organizations do more of the former and aren’t sure how to do the latter. Reducing the costs of information security compliance requires everyone speaking a common language within the organization, utilizing the proper tools, and managing information security at a high enough level to reasonably satisfy all the regulations at once.Areas Covered in the Seminar: * Defining compliance in your business *...
Your Current Governance And Compliance Programs and Risk Management Approaches May Not Enable You Effectively Address the Corporate and Compliance Needs of Today’s Business and Regulated Environment – It is time to initiate an overhaulWhen: 11:00 AM PDT | 2:00 PM EDT, April 25, WednesdayYou must take the time to improve your current governance programs to improve their ability to respond to today's modern threats and their varied impacts.Areas Covered in the seminar: * A quick self assessment would very likely reveal that your present corporate governance vision and approach is outdated and unable to respond to today’s complex threat environment, new technological environment threats and a heavy load of compliance obligations from new regulations * Present weaknesses in...
When: Wednesday, 23 May, 2007Time: 01:00 PM PST | 04:00 PM EST, USA timeDuration: 1 Hour Understand the process and requirements in conducting audits for Environment, Health & Safety and Quality Management Systems to meet ISO 19011. This presentation will cover in simple terms the five steps to conduct audits and the working documents required. Step 1 - Initiating, Step 2 Preparing, Step 3 Conducting - opening/closing meetings, collecting evidence, findings, Step 4 Audit reports, Step 5 Audit completion. Areas Covered in the seminar:Pilot has provided training in auditing since 1995 using her Three Step System Approach for Auditing and her Five Steps in performing audits. She was involved in the development of auditor protocols and the body of skills and knowledge for auditor...
Date: Wednesday, March 07, 2007As companies mature in their use of performance management, it becomes much more than simply reporting on where they’ve been. Progressive companies quickly expand beyond historic data gathering and traditional analysis to incorporate more thorough understanding of what factors truly drives performance. Leaders go the next step to anticipate the future, sensing and responding ongoing changes in operations to predict and plan future performance.This one hour webcast will include a frank discussion with John Hagerty, Industry Analyst from AMR Research, who will discuss his recent research findings for emerging best practices in financial performance management, along with 2007-2008 spending trends. This discussion will also delve into how to interpret these...
Date: January 11, 2007Governance has become a central topic in development, and many sets of indicators have been developed to measure the quality of governance and to rank countries accordingly. But how are these measurements made and the indicators applied? What issues arise in constructing and using governance indicators? In this round table, World Bank and external experts discussed data and methodologies used to develop governance indicators, the respective advantages and disadvantages of various indicators, issues related to the use of indicators in measuring the results of various development policy actions, and directions for future development.See full...
Coming Tuesday, February 1311:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Central Time9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Mountain Time8:00 to 9:30 a.m. Pacific TimePresented by employment law attorney John B. Phillips, Jr. and Margaret N. Morford, management consultantDid you ever face a bully at school? Someone who made your life so miserable you were afraid to come to class, rather than face taunting or even physical harm? Of course now that you're all grownup, those days are behind you, right?Think again. Bullies have moved from the school yard to the workplace, and it's costing employers. An appeals court recently ruled in favor of female employees at an Alaska union office who sued their employer because their boss screamed, cursed, and shook his fist at them. The court decided the...
When: February 22, 2007 at 02:00PM ET (USA)In conjunction with Balance Consulting!Form 1042-S, used to report a foreign person’s U.S. source income subject to withholding, is one of the more complex forms you’ll encounter as an AP professional. The reporting details can be mind-boggling.On top of this complexity, the Internal Revenue Service has officially begun a large enforcement effort involving withholding and reporting compliance for payments to nonresident aliens. 1042-S penalties can be severe – up to $250,000! And that’s just the reporting penalty. This amount does not include back-taxes, interest on the back-taxes, and penalties for late-deposit of the taxes.How confident are you that your 1042-S procedures are underpinned by a solid foundation? Join IOMA and Balance...
When: Thursday, February 15, 200711:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Central Time9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Mountain Time8:00 to 9:30 a.m. Pacific TimePresented by Mel Kleiman, CSPPresident of Humetrics, Inc.As Baby Boomers leave the workforce by the thousands and industry experts predict a shortfall of some 10 million workers by 2010, HR professionals must find new ways to reduce employee turnover.But retaining top talent is getting harder. A recent Gallup poll found that nearly one-fifth of employees surveyed are "actively disengaged" from their work — severely damaging workplace morale and costing $300 billion in lost productivity nationwide. Other retainment challenges include: * The growth of the Internet means that those who continue to work will be found on the...