Newsletter and Related Poll
Social media is a compendium of many things – corporate blogs, video-sharing sites such as YouTube, social networks like Facebook, microblogging tools such as Twitter, among others – that leverage the power of the Internet, Web 2.0 and mobile technologies to connect people. While these developments are presenting significant opportunities for companies to connect with their customers and others, they are creating a whole set of new issues for businesses. This issue of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight provides examples of 10 business risks and summarizes questions directors may want to consider in providing risk oversight.
This week's poll question asks: "Which of the following poses the top social media risk to your organization in 2012?"
Compliance Week Article
If you watch football on ESPN, you've probably seen the segment "C'mon, man!" where analysts shout, "C'mon, man!" after showing clips of players making particularly "boneheaded" plays—plays that are really dumb or sometimes just inept. Well, there are plenty of boneheaded moves in the risk and compliance arena too. This week, columnist Rick Steinberg offers his best of the worst in 2011.
Previous Poll Results
See the results from last week's poll: "Which of the following risks is top priority for your organization in 2012?"
Auerbach Article
System Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) is a process model developed at Carnegie Mellon University. SQUARE provides a means for eliciting, categorizing, and prioritizing security requirements for information technology systems and applications.
Questions & Answers
This section of the "Guide to Public Company Readiness – Frequently Asked Questions" focuses on additional compliance and corporate governance considerations. Topics covered include: What is “auditor independence,” and how does it apply to the selection and use of an external auditing firm? What is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and does it apply to all U.S. public companies? And, are pre-public companies required to have a formal code of conduct and ethics program?
Policy
The purpose of this policy is to establish internal controls over the purchase of company vehicles.
Updated Sample
This template is to be used by internal audit when developing an annual audit plan. It provides areas to document the planning approach, major projects and associated timelines, and project sponsors.
Coming Soon
Bank - Cash Accounts Reconciliation Policy
This policy provides standard procedures to reconcile cash accounts at a bank. Look for this tool in our next issue!
Featured Links
Enterprise software providers need to understand the new world order if they and their customers are to succeed. Source: infoworld.com
CFOs are inclined to give risk factors less attention than the management’s discussion and analysis, which is understandable. They are, by their very nature, distasteful. But these disclosures need tending to as well and should be revisited every year. Source: cfo.com
Featured Klplus Course
In this course we will cover how to plan the physical inventory and the risks that are associated with this phase of the Physical Inventory Process. The completed course is worth 1 credit and by the end of the course the learner will be able to:
- Provide consultation on the preparation and implementation of a physical inventory
- Conduct a risk assessment and internal control analysis on your client’s physical inventory standard operating procedures and processes
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Featured Favorite
This memo describes example documentation requirements for Section 404 compliance efforts. The three levels of documentation standards described correlate to the priority rating of financial statement elements and associated processes. This sample was tagged as a Favorite by your fellow subscribers.
From the Archive
This sixth GTAG was developed to help chief audit executives pose the correct questions to their IT security staff when assessing their vulnerability management processes. The guide recommends specific management practices to help achieve and sustain higher levels of effectiveness and efficiency and illustrates the differences between high- and low-performing vulnerability management efforts.
CCH Tax and Accounting - Accounting Research Manager Updates
- Year-End Reporting -- New Issue of "A Closer Look" Published
- Intangible Assets -- FASB Issues Proposed Guidance on Indefinite-Lived Intangible Asset Impairment Testing
- Pensions -- Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Obligations Discussed
- International Financial Reporting -- CAQ International Practices Task Force Meeting Minutes Published
- Mine Safety Disclosure -- SEC Staff Publishes Guidance on Mine Safety Disclosure
- Levies Charged -- IFRS Interpretations Committee Discusses Levies Charged and Other Matters
- Health Care Entities -- New Edition of Knowledge-Based Audits of Health Care Entities Published
- Enterprise Risk Management -- COSO Issues Thought Paper
- Financial Statements -- AICPA Standard on Consistency of Financial Statements Discussed
- Yellow Book -- Changes in the New Yellow Book Discussed
Top 5 Pages on KnowledgeLeader
The following links will take you to the five most popular pages from the week of January 22, 2012.