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Small Company Audit Disaster
Wild news from the auditing world this weekend: regulators have suspended an audit firm in Colorado for fabricating its work with clients. Hundreds of businesses — including for Donald Trump’s newly public Truth Social — must now scramble to find new audit firms and re-perform prior audit work. The Securities and Exchange Commission dropped this…
Read MoreStudy: Internal Reporting Gets Busier
Some red meat for all you whistleblower hotline managers! Navex just released its annual benchmarking report on internal reporting, with some fascinating findings about the volume of internal reports, the substantiation rates for internal reports, how often outsiders use your internal hotline, and much more. Navex released the report Tuesday morning, and given the sheer…
Read MoreA Convergence of Risk Disclosure
Like many other people, last week I read the SEC’s new requirements for disclosure of climate change risks with a sense of trepidation. The more I studied them, however, the more I felt something else: a sense of déjà vu. Like, has anybody else noticed how similar these disclosure requirements are to those that the…
Read MoreRats! Family Dollar Dinged on Sanitation
Family Dollar Stores is paying $41.6 million to settle charges that the discount retailer ignored a rat infestation at one of its distribution centers and allowed contaminated goods to go to its retail stores — one of the ickier examples of corporate culture gone wrong that we’ve seen lately. The settlement, announced Tuesday by the…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Jan. 19
This week the Compliance Jobs Report has a slew of promotions to note, at AbbVie, Cox Enterprises, FirstSolar, and many more. We also have new hires at Methode Electronics, AES Corp., and elsewhere; plus job leads in sports, healthcare, and medical devices. Meme of the Week goes out to sketchy intermediaries! Always remember that we…
Read MoreTips for Compliance and Data Analytics
The other day I had the great fortune to moderate a webinar on data analytics in compliance programs with Kirsten Liston, founder and CEO of Rethink Compliance. We had a great time and Liston certainly knows her stuff on data analytics, so I took lots of notes. Let’s review the major themes that arose from…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Sept. 22
The Compliance Jobs Report this week has new hires at Comerica Bank, Prime Therapeutics, Balfour Beatty, and lots more personnel gossip. We also have some folks leaving corporate for consulting land; job leads in hot dogs, zoos, and personal autonomous aircraft; and Meme of the Week goes out to ESG reporting! Always remember that we…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Sept. 1
The Compliance Jobs Report this week has personnel gossip from Lundbeck, Microsoft, Urban Pathways, the IATA, and even the world of politics! Plus some party pics, job leads in higher education, microchips, and economic development; and Meme of the Week goes out to slowpoke investment in compliance. Always remember that we need your help to…
Read MoreStretching Your Compliance Budget
The other week I moderated a webinar on how compliance officers can stretch their budgets for maximum effect. As usual the discussion was fascinating, and since tight budgets are pretty much a universal challenge for corporate compliance programs, I took plenty of notes. First, what struck me most was that most of the conversation did…
Read MoreFTX Sues Former CCO
FTX Corp., the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency platform that swindled billions from its customers, has filed a lawsuit against its former chief compliance officer, claiming that he acted as a “fixer” for FTX’s former management, paid off whistleblowers to keep quiet, and reaped millions in unwarranted compensation as he turned a blind eye to FTX’s many problems. …
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