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- Quality Governance And Testing In Outsourcing
- As the business world becomes an increasingly globalised environment, innovations in technology and communications underpin every decision and process. As such, more and more organisations, realising their limits in terms of resourcing these technological developments in-house, are building outsourcing and offshoring strategies into their business practices in order to boost...
- White papers 2006-06-30
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- Evaluating Corporate Governance: The Bondholders' Perspective
- The purpose of this paper is to inform the marketplace of the approach to evaluating and incorporating the quality of a company's corporate governance within the overall credit ratings process. While Fitch always has taken aspects of corporate governance into account, this report formalizes a more systematic framework for reviewing...
- White papers 2004-04-12
- Indicators by World Bank research called "best measure" of quality of governance worldwide; Extensive database covering 200 countries confirms governance issues are critical in development.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 July 2003-WORLD BANK GROUP: Indicators by World Bank research called "best measure" of quality of governance worldwide; Extensive database covering 200 countries confirms governance issues are critical in developmentC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07092003 WASHINGTON - A newly updated set...
- Research articles 2003-07-10
- The Directors' and Officers' Insurance Premium: An Outside Assessment of the Quality of Corporate Governance
- Using a sample of directors' and officers' D & O premiums gathered from the proxy statements of Canadian companies, this article examines the D & O premium as a measure of ex ante litigation risk. It provides confirmatory evidence that the D & O premium reflects the quality of the...
- White papers 2000-09-13
- SWITZERLAND: GLOBAL CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DIALOGUE.(Brief Article)
- The World Economic Forum is aiming to make a contribution to the field of corporate governance with a new initiative: The Global Corporate Governance Dialogue. The purpose of this dialogue is to contribute to the improvement of quality and coordinati The World Economic Forum is aiming...
- Research articles 2003-11-24
- Building a Data Quality Scorecard for Operational Data Governance
- " Operational data governance is the manifestation of the processes and protocols necessary to ensure that an acceptable level of confidence in the data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. In this white paper, David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity examines how a data governance program defines the roles, responsibilities, and...
- White papers 2008-10-09
- Data governance and IBM System z - Your key to business optimization
- The pressure's on and it's staying on. How well you manage your data and deliver it can make the difference between business success or failure. The usage, sharing and processing of electronic data continues to rapidly increase, yet many corporations still complain about being data rich but information poor....
- Webcasts 2009-09-29
- International IPO Underpricing, Earnings Quality, And Governance
- Examining a sample of more than 4,600 IPOs Initial Public Offerings across 24 countries from 2000-2004, it was found that firm- and deal-specific characteristics widely used in IPO single-country underpricing studies (e.g., offer size, underwriter reputation, and industry) can explain variation in an international cross section of initial returns. More...
- White papers 2006-12-21
- Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross-Country Empirical Tests
- Stephen Knack [*] Aid dependence can potentially undermine the quality of governance and public sector institutions by weakening accountability, encouraging rent-seeking and corruption, fomenting conflict over control of aid funds, siphoning off scarce talent from the bureaucracy, and alleviating pressures to reform inefficient policies and institutions. Analyses of cross-country...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- The Effects of Governance on the Financial Reporting Quality of Nonprofit Organizations
- Various stakeholders use nonprofit financial information for investing, contracting, and regulating decisions, and these decisions can be affected by the quality of the underlying financial information. The paper finds that the market-based governance measures have a more consistent effect on nonprofit reporting quality than do regulatory-based measures. The findings suggest...
- White papers 2004-09-24
- Harte-Hanks: Trillium Software Releases Industry's First Data Quality Dashboard for both Business Information and Technical Data Quality Trending; TS Insight provides performance management measures for master data management, data governance and complian
- M2 PRESSWIRE-16 January 2007-Trillium Software: Harte-Hanks: Trillium Software Releases Industry's First Data Quality Dashboard for both Business Information and Technical Data Quality Trending; TS Insight provides performance management measures for master data management, data governance and compliance applications throughout the organisationC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD ...
- Research articles 2007-01-16
- MetricStream Adds J-SOX to Its Market Leading Governance, Risk and Compliance Offerings
- MetricStream, Inc., the market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance GRC and Quality Management solutions, today announced the availability of a comprehensive solution for J-SOX. With this announcement, MetricStream continues to extend its leadership with the broadest solution in the market for corporate governance, risk management, regulatory compliance and quality...
- Research articles 2007-08-09
- Improved public governance in Middle East could boost economic growth by one percentage point a year; World Bank report reveals region lags in quality of public accountability.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-9 September 2003-WORLD BANK GROUP: Improved public governance in Middle East could boost economic growth by one percentage point a year; World Bank report reveals region lags in quality of public accountabilityC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09082003 DUBAI -- Public governance--the...
- Research articles 2003-09-09
- Systinet Simplifies SOA with Governance Interoperability Framework; Multi-Vendor Framework Provides First Governance Solution Spanning SOA Security, Management, Enterprise Information Integration, Composite Applications, and Registry
- BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Systinet, the leading software provider of the foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management, today announced it has wide industry support from leading Web services and service-oriented architecture SOA providers for a groundbreaking initiative in SOA governance called the Governance Interoperability Framework GIF. The Framework makes SOA...
- Research articles 2005-04-18
- Financial Reporting, Corporate Communication and Governance
- This paper describes the issues of financial reporting and corporate communication in connection with corporate governance. The analysis is based on the studies conducted in the Anglo-American and the European academic literature both from a normative and a positive perspective. It is discussed why accounting standards are not able by...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Governance and financial fragility
- Using data from a cross-sectional sample of 81 countries, this paper provides empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that the quality of governance is an important determinant of financial fragility as measured by the volatility of investment over time. Not only do the results suggest that better governance reduces investment...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- Institutional Shareholder Services to provide corp. governance
- Institutional Shareholder Services, of Rockville, has been selected by Dow Jones Newsletters to provide corporate governance quotient CGQ data to the Dow Jones' Corporate Governance newsletter. CGQ is a rating system designed to assist institutional investors in evaluating the quality of corporate boards and the impact their governance practices may...
- Research articles 2003-12-17
- Media Advisory: Harte-Hanks Trillium Software(R) to Host Webinar Featuring Leading Independent Analyst Firm on Data Governance
- What/Who: Harte-Hanks Trillium Software (NYSE: HHS), a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, will host a Webinar featuring Forrester Research Analyst Rob Karel: "Data Governance: What Works and What Doesn't." Why: Strategic data management initiatives can benefit from a data governance program. Common catalysts for...
- Research articles 2008-01-18
- Taking Control of Testing: Quality in Today's It
- Testing will always be a key element to any successful IT advance, and where time-to-market and consumer satisfaction are concerned, shirking an obligation to quality can bring devastating results. The advent of more sophisticated test tools that can automate certain testing, allows for the use of innovative approaches, such as...
- White papers 2005-06-03
- How Quality Assurance Reviews Can Strengthen the Strategic Value of Internal Auditing
- In response to an increased focus on effective governance, the Institute of Internal Auditors IIA issued two key provisions to revise standards for the practice of internal audit in 2002. Of the two provisions, the external Quality Assurance Review QAR is considered to be particularly important, reflecting the enhanced role...
- White papers 2006-06-07
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