All Regulation articles – Page 6
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Features
A step-by-step approach to SOX
With the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadline for US-headquartered companies imminent (the first reporting date is November 2004), what lessons can be learned by those UK companies that also have to com
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A Slice of American Pie?
Many European groups are looking to expand into the US Steven Blair and Mark Bunim discuss the risks for UK companies, which result from the very different legal culture - and how to avoid the pitfall
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Sick notes
Lee Coppack looks at the growing focus on absence management, and at how Tesco is tackling the issue
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Special Reports
Risk management for an enlarged EU
Jeff Manners says that companies operating in the Central European countries that joined the EU this year will need a structured approach to risk management to gain competitive advantage
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Features
The new risk management challenge
Jenny Rayner explores the implications for risk managers of the new mandatory Operating and Financial Review
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Disclosing The Facts
New legislation will encourage UK companies to provide more information for stakeholders But, without compulsion, will anything change?
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Managing a Disaster
You need to be sure that you can manage after a disaster rather than letting the disaster manage you, say Clive Fletcher-Wood and Alyson Tanner
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Honouring the Pensions promise
The risk from defined benefit pension promises is inextricably linked to the sponsoring company's finances This was always the case but the accounting standard FRS17 has emphasised it in a way that ma
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Analysis
Hazards from EU Enlargement
A new study suggests that EU harmonisation could erode the cost advantages that newly-joined states currently enjoy, and could leave British importers liable if products sourced from these countries d
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Features
Asbestos Update
Over 100 years after it was first publicly revealed in a UK parliamentary report to be hazardous to health, asbestos has made an unwelcome return to the top of organisations' risk registers, says Neil
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Feeling the Effects
While only eligible UK companies will fall within the Sarbanes-Oxley net, the UK government is considering additional legislation that will apply to all David Saunders writes.
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Analysis
Corporate killing warning
eCity law firm Norton Rose has released research on the Government's proposals for a new corporate killing bill
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Features
THE NEW UK REGIME
The Combined Code on Corporate Governance, published on 23 July 2003 will affect companies in respect of their reporting years beginning on or after 1 November 2003 How should you manage risk under th
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CARRYING THE CAN
Who should take responsibility when things go wrong - the company or its individual directors? - asks Tan Ikram
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NO ACCOUNTING FOR MISTAKES
Gary Hazzard explores the increased responsibility of company executives to ensure financial reporting is accurate, and explains how software solutions can help
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Special Report - Corporate Risk Management and EIL
With the legal goal posts constantly moving, environmental risk is hard to manage, warns David Thomas.
