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Fraud Risk Management: Developing A Strategy For Prevention, Detection, And Response
In the wake of high-profile corporate scandals as well as new regulations worldwide, many business leaders are increasingly aware of the need to create company-specific antifraud measures to address internal corporate fraud and misconduct. While acknowledging that no single approach to fraud risk management can fit every organization's needs, this...
Improved Point-Of-Sale Reporting
Products rarely "Flow" directly from manufacturers to end user customers. Instead, a group of intermediaries (e.g., distributors, resellers, system integrators, retailers), a "Channel," typically works with both manufacturers and customers to make the process of purchase and delivery more efficient. While a typical distribution channel can be quite efficient at...
Enterprise Risk Management: Complacency Is No Longer an Option
In an environment in which risks are proliferating, shareholders are demanding growth, and first-movers are expanding rapidly into new markets, many leaders recognize that implementing an Enterprise Risk Management ERM program is becoming an urgent business priority. Getting started with a clear and practical vision is critical, and a few...
A Wake-Up Call for Europe IT Sector Competitiveness
Executives of European information technology firms have reason for optimism as demand for IT products and services worldwide continues to recover from the post-bubble downturn. But securing the future will be no easy task: in the eyes of IT managers and CIOs, the buyers of their products, European IT firms...
Global Telecommunications Financial Performance Tracker
Throughout the world, as companies face up to the implications of massive investments in 3G, fiber and other technologies at a time of sustained price competition, they are beginning to address a number of questions. What is their core business - is it owning and operating high volume, low margin...
Opportunities in a Changing Market
This report looks at the challenges for the financial services sector raised by change in the broader business environment - the economy, the regulatory framework and the forces of globalization. It explores how financial services companies are facing up to these challenges by focusing on four key areas - growth...
A View From the Top: Business Ethics and Leadership
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...
Pressure Points: Risk Management in the Pharmaceuticals Industry
The report highlights the fact that the pharmaceutical industry is as much as 50 percent riskier than the rest of the S&P 500. Pharmaceutical companies have risk management programs in place and a "controls culture" from being in a highly regulated industry. But their risk management frameworks may not have...
Risk and Capital Management: A New Perspective for Insurers
This document discusses the evolving importance of risk and capital management for insurers. It addresses risk and its measurement as well as risk diversification and it lays out a framework for capital management. It describes how a holistic approach can help insurance companies achieve a variety of business benefits as...
Hedge Funds: A Catalyst Reshaping Global Investment
Since the onset of the bear market, the growth of hedge funds has been nothing short of spectacular; with over 8,000 hedge funds now controlling assets in excess of US$1 trillion and amounting to two percent of global investment assets. They have become a formidable force; but their lackluster performance...
Assessing Internal Control Over Financial Reporting: A Guide for Implementing Appendix A of OMB Circular A-123
The purpose of this document is to provide an approach that management may consider for assessing, documenting, and reporting on ICOFR in conformance with the requirements of the revised OMB Circular A-123, Management's Responsibility for Internal Control, Appendix A. The framework for the assessment is Standards for Internal Control in...
Driving Performance Improvements From Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
Compliance with Sarbanes Oxley should bring a portfolio view of controls within a business, giving greater knowledge of how controls are managed, whoÆs responsible, how they interface and impact on performance. This article puts forward that this can be an opportunity to re-evaluate how these controls can be made more...
Transfer Pricing in the Insurance Industry
In an increasingly globalized economy, insurance companies cannot afford to ignore tax issues arising in respect of their cross border intra-group dealings. This paper provides information about KPMG's Global FS Tax practice's capabilities in the area of insurance transfer pricing and lists country contacts. It depicts that insurance companies face...
Consolidation and Growth: Emerging Trends in American ICT Markets
Size and innovation matter more than ever in North America's ICT markets. In enterprise software, where the U.S. remains a global leader in innovation, the industry giants are seeking to expand, acquire and secure customer bases as their established revenue models are transformed. While telecoms companies search for scale through...
A Financial Executive's Guide to Proposed Changes in Statutory Reserve and Risk-Based Capital Requirements for Variable Annuities
Variable annuities have become one of the top success stories for the life insurance industry in the last decade. However, the evolution of guarantees like guaranteed minimum death benefits GMDBs and guaranteed living benefits GLBs, in many cases dependent for their financial viability on sophisticated hedging programs, have caused concern...
Bringing the GAAP Hierarchy Into GAAP
This article explains a proposed FASB Statement that would adopt the hierarchy of generally accepted accounting principles now in auditing standards with some updating modifications. The proposal would make the rules governing which accounting principles take precedence directly applicable to preparers of financial statements, not just to auditors, and is...
The State of the Banking Industry: Banking and Investment Banking & Securities
This report provides an overview of significant activities that have occurred in the past few months including: general industry highlights; updates on accounting, tax, regulatory and legislative developments; consolidation and convergence; risk management; international issues; and e-business and technology.
The State of the Investment Management and Funds Industry
This report provides a comprehensive overview of key trends and developments in the investment management and funds industry. Major areas reviewed in this report include general industry highlights; legislative and regulatory matters; fund statistics; consolidation and convergence; broker-dealers; the pension market; alternative investments; international focus; risk management; and e-business and...
Building A Success Model For Internal Audit: The Balanced Scorecard
Many successful organisations nowadays are recognising the importance of the internal audit function as a key component of the governance framework within their organisation. However, internal audit functions that provide the greatest value to management and boards will be those that have already established a clear picture of their own...
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: The Operations 'Track'
The paper highlights that Sarbanes-Oxley is a steep new cost - with direct accountability by the CEO and all executives - but with the total cost of control and return on investment ('ROI') squarely in the hands of the operations executive. Many business leaders have quantified Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs related...
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