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Preparing for Increased Regulatory Oversight and Enhanced Enforcement
This Alert focuses on important recent regulations spawned by the financial crisis, and demonstrates how these policies, heightened enforcement activities, and penalties for noncompliance escalate the need for organizations to improve governance practices and related compliance and antifraud programs and controls. The crisis, the authorization of hundreds of billions of dollars in new federal funding, and a desire to strengthen regulatory controls, have combined to make scrutiny of potential fraud, waste, and abuse a mantra of the federal regulatory and law enforcement community. New standards for transparency and accountability provide a powerful incentive for companies to improve governance practices and related compliance and antifraud programs and controls.
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KPMG's Quarterly Outlook
Timely summaries of major developments that may impact your accounting and financial reporting in the current period and the near future. Included in this September 2009 issue: SEC’s Dear CFO letter regarding loan loss disclosures and FASB Accounting Standards Codification™ (effective for September 30, 2009 financial statements). |
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Replay: Audit Committee Webcast -Governance Reform Proposals from an Institutional Investor Perspective, and Insights from the IRS on Key Tax Issues
View a replay of a KPMG/NACD Audit Committee Webcast, featuring a discussion with Ann Yerger, Executive Director of the Council of Institutional Investors, and Steven T. Miller, Commissioner - IRS Large and Mid-size Business Division. |
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Rewriting the Textbook on Risk Oversight
A look at emerging ideas and practices in the board's oversight of risk. |
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Got a Pen? Five Critical Benchmarking Questions
A few key survey questions (and their answers) are likely to trigger an enlightening audit committee/boardroom discussion.
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Upcoming Events
Audit Committee Fall 2009 Roundtable Series
Going Forward – Risk, Reform, and Recovery
December 2009
Register here
Save the Date!
KPMG/NACD Audit Committee Webcast
January 28, 2010 11:00 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Eastern
Registration details coming soon!
See Full Webcast Calendar for 2010
6th Annual Audit Committee Issues Conference
West Coast – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Biltmore – February 2, 2010
(Reception the evening of Feb. 1, 2010)
East Coast – Miami, FL – Fairmont Turnberry – February 10, 2010
(Reception the evening of Feb. 9, 2010)
Reserve Today
Other ACI-Sponsored Governance Events |
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KPMG Releases 2009 Fraud Survey
More than two-thirds of executives believe combating fraud and misconduct may require improvements in corporate internal control environments.
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Spring 2009 Audit Committee Roundtable Report
This new report from ACI recaps hot topics and key survey findings from KPMG's 29-city Audit Committee Roundtable Series. Information quality, risk conversations, board culture, and compensation risks were front-and-center. |
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Audit Committee Alert - 09-01 -
Boards Reassess Investment Authority
New AC Alert points to increased scrutiny of the treasury function’s investment authority by boards as a result of the economic crisis. |
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The Audit Committee Journey Recalibrating for the "New Normal" 2009 Public Company Audit Committee Member Survey
Read about the priorities, concerns, and emerging practices driving today's audit committee agendas. |
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Highlights from the 5th Annual Audit Committee Issues Conference
Audit committee and board oversight is very different today than it was a year ago. Survey findings and dialogue from our Annual Audit Committee Issues Conference point to key trends and top concerns driving audit committee agendas in 2009.
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Ten To-Do’s for Audit Committees in 2009
ACI’s annual memo points to ten items for audit committees to keep in mind as they consider - and carry out - their 2009 agendas. |
