All Responsibilities articles

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    Risk Integrated introduces new testing service for Basel II compliance

    6 November 2007

    Profitability analysis program allows banks to compare existing risk assessment methods with enhanced analytics and cashflow simulation, says consultancy

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    Firms should embrace internal auditing

    7 August 2007

    The head of a new governance and risk consultancy says internal audits are an integral part of risk management

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    Programme Risk

    12 March 2007

    Gerard Gallagher says that programme risk is the internal audit 'blind spot' that keeps board members awake at nights.

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    Harmonisation produces discord

    24 October 2006

    The provisions of the European Statutory Audit Directive have ruffled some feathers in the UK. Neil Hodge explains.

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    Life after SOX

    12 September 2006

    Has all the aggravation, not to mention the considerable cost, incurred by many large European companies to comply with the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act been worth it? Fiona Sheridan gives her view.

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    Navigating the high wire

    11 August 2006

    With their concerns and responsibilities overlapping, there needs to be a careful balancing act between internal audit and risk management, say Tim Cromack, Waseem Aslam and Russell McKay.

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    AUDIT AND SCREEN

    11 August 2006

    Alan Hambidge examines the concepts and benefits of risk management audits and risk screens in connection with managing asbestos

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    COMPETITIVE OR COMPLIMENTARY?

    14 November 2005

    Alain Chilot, Cyril Vegni and Sebastien Guery discuss how risk management and internal audit functions can work in harmony

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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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    A New Code for Belgium

    28 February 2005

    Sergio Beristain looks at the development of Belgium's corporate governance initiative

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    Caught in the Regulator's Net?

    4 November 2004

    The summer been dominated by the threat of regulation of the insurance market and the changes that this may bring to many business operations in the UK

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    A step-by-step approach to SOX

    4 November 2004

    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?

    4 November 2004

    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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    Feeling the Effects

    26 April 2004

    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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    THE NEW UK REGIME

    16 March 2004

    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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    ESSENTIAL RULES FOR EUROPE

    16 March 2004

    While the European Commission does not plan a harmonised corporate governance code, it does intend to ensure a common approach, says Sue Copeman

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    Comment

    16 March 2004

    The Department of Trade & Industry's consultative document on director and auditor liability, published in December, is likely to arouse strong feelings both from business groups who feel that directo

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    NO ACCOUNTING FOR MISTAKES

    16 March 2004

    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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    The black hole opens

    23 October 2003

    Neil Campbell recommends addressing pensions risks...

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    A Store of trouble

    22 October 2003

    What went wrong at Royal Ahold? Lee Coppack writes