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5 Key Changes on the Way Although nearly a year away, the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is fast-approaching for multinational companies, and the clock is ticking to ensure compliance. The changes coming will have far-reaching implications for...

And How to Improve the Bottom Line Sales and use tax (SUT) compliance for manufacturers has become so complex that the costs are directly impacting their bottom lines. The manufacturing industry realized the benefits of advancing production with technology long...

Penalties for Noncompliance Remain Severe Attorney General Jeff Sessions has identified enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as a high priority for the Trump administration in its ongoing efforts to combat corporate misconduct.  News of this, along with other statements...

Award-winning American journalist Michael Kavanagh splits his time between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Europe. He recently wrote an investigative piece about the Kabila family’s business empire. Michael talks with Alexandra about the pervasiveness and brazenness of corruption in...

Lessons from Panama One Year On It’s been more than a year since the Panama Papers incident, the leak of more than 11 million documents pointing to a lack of corporate transparency around shell structures. As a result, the global...

4 Techniques for Auditors While data analytics in audit has been discussed for more than two decades, most internal audit teams are just beginning to make serious investments to embed analytics in their engagements and processes. Vendors highlight techniques such as predictive and prescriptive analytics; however, it is often unclear...

Creating Situational Awareness Several prominent Wall Street firms are transitioning to a cognitive risk management environment. The changes they’ve made are significant, but there’s still work to be done. James Bone asserts that a more comprehensive approach is needed: one...

What Kinds of Social Media Posts are Protected? Employees are increasingly using social media to complain about their employment and employers.  As a result, employment-law retaliation claims based on social media activity are on the rise. Employers must treat social...

Your Integrity Policy Matters Mexico’s General Law of Administrative Accountability, set to go into effect next week, is the final part of a historic package of far-reaching anti-corruption laws, dubbed the National Anti-Corruption System, that were passed last year. Taken...

5 Key Areas to Improve Now While business processes are an absolute necessity for effective governance, risk management and compliance, the static documents many companies use to store process information simply don’t work. They’re not functional, usually inaccessible and often...

Last March, the Australian newspaper The Age published “The World’s Biggest Bribe Scandal,” about a Monaco-based company that serves as a local partner in challenging markets for large, international companies. Today’s guest, Senior Investigative Reporter Nick McKenzie, broke the Unaoil...

CEOs are becoming increasingly frustrated by organizations that over-emphasize the short term. And CECP — a coalition of CEOs that believes societal improvement is an essential measure of business performance — took notice. CECP is trying to redirect investor behavior...