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• A View From the Top: Business Ethics and Leadership

  BNET - 2005-10-01

  The research presented in this paper provides some timely insights into the elusive dynamics driving board perspectives of the ethical dimensions of corporate life. It identifies some of the obstacles to a more robust engagement with modern day ethical challenges - challenges that arise from the idea that business is...

  Tags: Board, KPMG International, Corporate Governance, Business Ethics, Leadership, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management

• Tax in the Boardroom

  BNET - 2005-02-01

  Tax regulations have changed dramatically in recent years. Businesses need to address the balance between shareholder expectations and the increasing pressures they face around governance, regulation and commercial competition. This paper states current thinking in this area and represents the findings of a year-long study of the regulatory, corporate governance...

  Tags: Shareholder, Compliance, KPMG International, Taxes, Free Trade, Corporate Governance, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government

• Avoiding The Regulator's Red Flag On Outsourcing

  BNET - 2004-11-01

  Outsourcing can be an extremely effective means of reducing costs while at the same time maintaining - or even improving - standards of service. However, regulators are increasingly recognizing the risks of outsourcing and will take action to protect customers. The primary requirement from a regulatory and corporate governance perspective...

  Tags: Regulator, Red Flag Software, KPMG International, Outsourcing, Corporate Governance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Corporate Law

• Tax Risk Management in the Financial Sector: An International KPMG Survey

  BNET - 2004-10-01

  Regulation and wider awareness of corporate governance issues are forcing groups to confront all aspects of risk in their business. Tax is not immune from this. Increasingly, tax is coming under scrutiny as an area of risk that needs to be understood and managed, while multinational businesses are having to...

  Tags: Business Operations, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Finance, Financial, Financial Planning, Free Trade, KPMG International, Survey, Taxes

• Moving Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley: Leveraging Value From Compliance

  BNET - 2004-04-12

  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (S-O) has forced companies to take a wholesale look at control and governance within their organizations. In response to heightened public demand and regulatory requirements, companies have spent the last eighteen months tightening financial controls, strengthening external reporting, and reviewing corporate governance structures. As these...

  Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, KPMG International, Corporate Governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

• `People the key factor in corporate governance', BUSINESS TIMES

  - 2003-01-17

  Business Times Malaysia 01-17-2003 THERE should not be any hard-and-fast rule on accounting standards and corporate governance, says auditing giant KPMG Malaysia. Its partner for assurance Ng Kim Tuck said this is because rules cannot accou Business Times...

  Tags: corporate governance, CalPERS, KPMG International