Supreme Court decisions may affect compliance
The Supreme Court will issue only a handful of decisions during its current term with broad compliance implications, but three of...
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Regulatory & compliance archive
Halliburton case threatens class actions for securities fraud
The US Supreme Court recently agreed to decide a case with major implications for all publicly traded companies. The issue in...
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Internal audit key in gauging Affordable Care Act risks
With the regulatory requirements of the US Affordable Care Act taking effect, health care will likely be an area of increased...
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Ten tips to ease the transition to IFRS
A common challenge for multinational corporations is achieving consistency across operations in different countries with different...
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Delaware Law conference explores new impacts on governance
More than 150 corporate secretaries, general counsel, other corporate lawyers, judges and academics met at the first Delaware Law...
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Awards, legal protection incentivizing more whistleblowers, SEC reports
The chance to report misconduct among corporate chieftains and fellow employees, and profit personally too, is proving too good an...
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Deciding whistleblower law's limits
The hundreds of thousands of privately held U.S. companies need to watch the Supreme Court case, Lawson v. FMR LLC, very closely...
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Cindy Fornelli: Conducting an audit assessment
Cindy Fornelli is the executive director for the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ), the organization dedicated to enhancing investor...
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How fair is the Marketplace Fairness Act?
The debate over the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) of 2013 is starting to heat up. It’s already cleared the Senate hurdle and is...
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Class-action lawsuits and the arbitration waiver
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Italian Colors vs American Express empowers companies to end class-action lawsuits against them...
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