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Audit committees focus on operational risk: FBI targets corporate corruption banking group proposes self-regulation for risks management transparency linked to ethical workforce financial restatements increase sharply
AUDIT COMMITTEES ARE EXPECTING INTERNAL AUDIT departments to make strategic, operational, and business risk a higher priority as demands of compliance with the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 have eased in the past year, according to the 2008 State of the Internal Audit Profession Study by PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC LLP. The...
Tags: audit, banking, FBI, FINANCE, financial, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, self-regulation, workforce
Research articles 2008-06-01
Self-regulation of Mobile Marketing Aimed at Children: An Overview of the Spanish Case
Abstract Mobile phones have changed consumer and company behaviour and today they constitute the most direct means of communication between them. Many groups are targeted through promotion campaigns using mobile phones. Children, who in the future will be the largest consumer of new technologies, are one of these groups. Given...
Tags: Conduct, European Commission, MARKETING, mobile, phone, self-regulation, Spain
Research articles 2007-12-01
British paparazzi warned off Prince William's girlfriend
LONDON AFP — A veteran royal photographer warned Britain's paparazzi Tuesday to lay off Prince William's girlfriend Kate Middleton, warning she might end up being hounded like the late Princess Diana. Sun lensman Arthur Edwards also claimed that Middleton and William -- second in line to the British throne...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, girlfriend, Government, Regulations, self-regulation
Research articles 2007-03-06
Ad issues to watch for in '06.(Book of Tens)
Byline: Douglas J. Wood 1 Product Placement Consumer Watch has asked the FTC and FCC to mandate that consumers are alerted to product placement on TV. Such a requirement would likely kill the practice. The FTC rejected the petition-a victory for ...
Tags: advertisement, advertiser, FTC, self-regulation
Research articles 2005-12-19
Kanjorski calls for self-regulation against predatory lenders
WHATEVER LEGISLATIVE REMEDY CONGRESS sees fit to implement in order to address predatory lending, the mortgage industry will be expected to do much more to police itself, said a key House Democrat. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pennsylvania) told attendees of the Mortgage Bankers Association's Regulatory Compliance Conference in Washington, D.C.,...
Tags: Democrat, Government, Regulations, self-regulation, Strategy, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2005-10-01
Food fight's new fronts: viral marketing, games; Critics skewer marketers' below-parental-radar tactics.(News)
Byline: STEPHANIE THOMPSON [Washington] Critics fingering Big Food for America's childhood-obesity epidemic are shifting their scrutiny from TV ads to under-the-radar marketing messages such as adver-gaming and viral marketing. During the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Health and Human...
Tags: advertisement, food, FTC, game, Manufacturing, MARKETING, self-regulation, TV
Research articles 2005-07-18
In the Shadow of the Pyramid: Consumers in communications self-regulation
Consumer involvement in self-regulation has been in the foreground of communications regulation since the Consumer Driven Communications Report was published by the Australian Communications Authority at the end of 2004. In this paper, Derek Wilding argues that while consumer participation has received attention, there has been a reluctance to conduct...
Tags: Australian Communications Authority, broadcasting, compliance, Government, regulation, Regulations, regulator, self-regulation, supplier, telecommunications
Research articles 2005-07-01
Interview with David Havyatt
David Havyatt was appointed in 2000 as Head of Regulatory Affairs, AAPT Limited, which is part of the Telecom New Zealand Group and one of Australia's three major telecommunications carriers. Havyatt has extensive experience with the regulatory, co-regulatory and self-regulatory environment in the communications sector and a keen knowledge of...
Tags: Australian Communications Authority, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Government, NETWORKING, Regulations, regulator, self-regulation, Strategy, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, Telstra Corp.
Research articles 2005-07-01
Breaking Up the System of Self-Regulation
The structure of self-regulatory organizations, or SROs, such as the New York Stock Exchange, are in the cross-hairs of the nation's regulators who are weighing unprecedented change. "In sum, while Congress and the Commission have criticized and modified the SRO system in the past, it has not been radically...
Tags: Government, NYSE Euronext, Regulations, regulator, SEC, self-regulation
Research articles 2005-01-01
Between Self-Regulation and the Alien Tort Claims Act: On the Contested Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility
Using Alien Tort Claims Act suits against multinational corporations as an immediate context for discussion, this article explores the emerging field of corporate social responsibility. The article argues for an understanding of concrete legal struggles as part of broader competing strategies for regulating corporate obligations to a multitude of stakeholders....
Tags: American Bar Association, Cir, Coca-Cola Co., CSR, Exxon Mobil Corp., Government, Leadership, Quality, self-regulation, Shell, standards, U.S., Unocal Corp.
Research articles 2004-12-01
Interactive Advertising Bureau Supports FTC's Embrace of Self-Regulation of Behavioral Advertising
NEW YORK -- The Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB today commended the Federal Trade Commission FTC for its release yesterday of a set of proposed principles to guide the development of self-regulation in the evolving area of behavioral advertising.
Tags: advertisement, FTC, Interactive Advertising Bureau, self-regulation
Research articles 2007-12-21
Is All Speech Local? Balancing Conflicting Free Speech Principles on the Internet
"What makes this case uniquely challenging is that the Internet in effect allows one to speak in more than one place at the same time."Judge Jeremy Fogel, Yahoo!, Inc. v. La Ligue Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme1INTRODUCTIONAs Internet growth booms,2 countries are seeking regulatory solutions to safeguard national free speech...
Tags: Council of Europe, Government, INTERNET, regulation, self-regulation, U.S., violence, Yahoo! Inc.
Research articles 2004-03-01
ACCC allows self regulation for Mortgage Industry Association.
M2 PRESSWIRE-19 February 2004-ACCC: ACCC allows self regulation for Mortgage Industry AssociationC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02192004 The Mortgage Industry Association of Australia's Disciplinary Rules have been granted authorisation* by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. "The ACCC considers...
Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Government, Regulations, self-regulation, Strategy
Research articles 2004-02-19
'R' Files, The
Self-Regulation of Business: Oil or Grit in the Wheels of Commerce? During a Seinfeld episode, an altercation with a dry cleaner about missing garments led to accusations that the dry cleaner might have borrowed them. This brought the business owner's indignant response that the Dry Cleaners' self-regulatory Code...
Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, consumerist, Government, Regulations, self-regulation, Strategy
Research articles 2003-12-01
Ban smoking in public, Britain's top medics urge government
LONDON AFP ? Britain's leading medics urged the government to ban smoking in the work place, restaurants and pubs as soon as possible, saying its policy of self-regulation has failed non-smokers. "We believe that the time has come for legislation to make public places smoke-free," Britain's Royal Colleges of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Britain, Government, Regulations, self-regulation
Research articles 2003-11-24
Outsourcing government regulation.
INTRODUCTION Regulation is not just for bureaucrats anymore. The government has increasingly relied on private means to achieve public ends, not only involving services to the public, but the origination and implementation of regulatory policy as well, which is the primary focus of this...
Tags: agency, Essay, government, MARKETING, negotiation, outsourcing, PCAOB, Pub, Regulation, regulation, Robert, self-regulation, standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2003-11-01
Thai Advertising Association Stresses Self-Regulation.
By Nondhanada Intarakomalyasut, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 17--The Advertising Association of Thailand AAT yesterday vowed to regulate its members to prevent advertising agencies from producing controversial or unethical advertisements including comparative ones. AAT president...
Tags: advertisement, Bangkok Post, self-regulation
Research articles 2003-09-17
Self-regulation dominates MFA hedge fund guidelines.
Byline: Anuj Gangahar The Managed Futures Association, the US industry body, has emphasised the need for self regulation in its new guidelines for hedge funds in advance of the Securities and Exchange Commission's SEC regulation proposals, due later this year.The trade group represents the...
Tags: FINANCE, Investment, SEC, self-regulation
Research articles 2003-08-08
The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award *.(Brief Article)
THE JULY/AUGUST 2003 LAWRENCE SUMMERS MEMORIAL AWARD* goes to two of the stalwart appointees of the Bush administration, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Harvey Pitt, and current Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. Commenting on the one-year anniversary of passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley...
Tags: FINANCE, Government, Iraq, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, self-regulation
Research articles 2003-07-01
Telecommunications self-regulation is not delivering.
May 05, 2003 (Consuming Interest - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian consumers are not satisfied with the telecommunications industry. The Australian Communications Authority conducts Consumer Awareness and Information Needs Surveys each year. Analysis of the survey results from 2000, 2001 and 2002 reveals that consumers...
Tags: Australian Communications Authority, MARKETING, NETWORKING, self-regulation, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony
Research articles 2003-05-06