Features – Page 6

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    WHAT'S WRONG WITH SOX?

    14 November 2005

    Andy Jones compliments the thinking behind the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but suggests that it may bring unforeseen problems in its wake

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    Fraud: The great unmanaged risk?

    14 November 2005

    Allan McDonagh discusses why the tone at the top is key to effective fraud prevention

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    X-RATED EXPOSURES

    14 November 2005

    Julie Connor assesses the risks caused by employees accessing illicit images in the workplace

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    Trying to do things better

    4 October 2005

    Sukhdev Bal ponders why companies that do not have to comply with SOX are nevertheless striving to improve their internal control systems

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    Disarming the value killers

    30 June 2005

    Ajit Kambil, Mark Layton and Rick Funston outline the findings of a recent analysis on the causes of major shareholder value losses, and suggest ways of reducing vulnerability

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    Not a victimless crime

    20 April 2005

    Sean Holohan discusses the conflicts felt by would-be whistleblowers and the damage that can result if they fail to speak out

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    Risky Business

    20 April 2005

    Michael Burling discusses the dangers posed by ineffective provisioning of user access rights and details how a secure enterprise provisioning system addresses specific risk areas highlighted by the U

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    Spotting the bad apples

    20 April 2005

    How do you spot a fraudulent employee? Hitesh Patel gives some guidelines

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    Loose lips sink ships

    20 April 2005

    Neil Miller looks at the challenges of internal intellectual property protection

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    Coming Clean

    28 February 2005

    How well are institutions coping with money-laundering regulations Lee Coppack investigates

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    Risk and Reward

    28 February 2005

    Despite the current preoccupation with corporate governance, customer service risk still concerns European financial managers more than financial reporting requirements, says Wendy Cohen

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    Site Security and Systems

    28 February 2005

    How are organisations managing or going to manage the new and substantial demands placed on site security teams? Bruno Brunskill challenges whether these demands have been fully appreciated

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    Security or Illusion?

    20 December 2004

    Directors' and officers' liability was a discussion theme at the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) seminar 2004

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    Messages that come back to haunt you

    20 December 2004

    Incriminating e-mails are increasingly being produced as evidence in corporate crime trials

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    US prices fall but changes continue

    20 December 2004

    Michael Rossi discusses recent US trends

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    Punishing fraud

    4 November 2004

    Tan Ikram identifies some concerns in proposed changes to fraud law

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    The new face of Enterprise Risk

    29 June 2004

    Enterprise risk is changing, with personnel-based employee and organisational risks becoming more important Simon Kunzler and Andros Payne provide some guidance on managing them new threats.

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    Are you being given the whole story?

    10 June 2004

    CEOs, finance directors and risk managers are recognising the need to outsource part of the due diligence process prior to corporate transactions, in order to make sure that nothing suspicious is lurk

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    Informed appointments

    26 April 2004

    Alan Beazley says pre-employment screening can weed out applicants who are not what they seem

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    Sour Milk

    26 April 2004

    Lee Coppack looks at Parmalat's problems and at how they might have been detected sooner