Improve Company Governance

Financial internal controls often fail at the handoffs between accounting cycles. Sales books the order, operations fulfills it, finance reports it, and someone must verify the numbers along the way. A practical control framework therefore has to cover the ten core accounting cycles that make up the accounting body of knowledge. Each financial cycle focuses […]

Compliance is a fact of business life. If you make compliance easier, you make compliance happen. Here are ten practical ways to build that into your company.

Merely having an ethics policy in place isn’t enough.

ITIL is a framework for IT service management that helps organizations plan, deliver, support, and continually improve technology services.

Many members of an organization express concern over whether their company is ethical . If you’re one of them, do you know how to improve business ethics?

IFRS convergence still affects U.S. companies through reporting, controls, systems, contracts, compensation, and cross-border business relationships.

A risk assessment matrix helps project teams rank risks by likelihood and impact, prioritize treatment options, train employees, and monitor risk throughout the project.

Is there a troubling lack of documentation of core know-how and lack of controls in your business? When working for your parents, transition founder-held knowledge into policies and procedures.

HIPAA compliance efforts rarely fail because one policy is missing. They fail because the organization treats compliance as a binder instead of an operating discipline. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, usually called HITECH, expanded the practical reach of HIPAA by strengthening breach notification, enforcement, and business associate obligations around protected […]