I continue my review of The Handbook of Board Governance: A Comprehensive Guide for Public, Private, and Not-for-Profit Board Member. With the current post, I provide comments on Part 3 of the book, Risk Governance, Assurance and the Duties of Directors. See prior introductory comments and those on Part 1 and Part 2. I suspect the book will soon be the most popular […]
Internal auditing received a giant boost with the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxly Act in 2002, which requires company officers signing SEC reports to attest they have implemented the necessary internal controls to ensure they are informed of any material impact over financial reporting. SOX made it mandatory for many companies to determine financial reporting risks, design […]
Opinion: Business to Blame for Anti-Business Mood, Marty Robins, Special to AOL News, 7/8/10. Where management was utterly disengaged from the business at hand, is it any wonder the public, and lawmakers, are demanding more regulation of the economy… resistance to good-faith efforts to improve governance by bolstering management oversight doesn’t endear business to society. […]