Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One of the complaints we hear most from internal auditors — and their clients — across the world is that lengthy reports often don’t prompt action. During our practitioner days, we were often disappointed when internal audit reports we labored long and hard to craft often landed with a deafening silence. An active sentence starts with the doer.

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Audit Board

JUNE 15, 2022

Every five years, the International Organization for Standards (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) review standards to confirm they are up to date. In February 2022, they reviewed and revised ISO/IEC 27002:2013 and released its successor in ISO/IEC 27002:2022. . ISO/IEC 27002 is a lesser-known component of ISO/IEC 27001.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Ideally, the revesting provisions are structured to provide key employees long-term capital gains treatment on any deferred payments (compared to the ordinary income attributed to vested options or restricted stock units cashed out at closing). What’s on tap for 2018 M&A? 280G Gross-Ups in Public Company Sales.

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Audit Board

JULY 28, 2022

Sarbanes-Oxley was close to passing, and then they put the brakes on it. As I shared in a blog not long ago, it was what I considered the most consequential internal audit in history , which got everything rolling again and got Congress fully committed to putting the kind of legislation together that we needed. Richard Chambers: Yeah.

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Audit Board

JUNE 3, 2022

ESG covers a wide range of issues, from environmental threats like climate change, to social issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, to social responsibility in investing and production, to governance issues related to executive pay and financial reporting. What Is an ESG Audit? . What Is an ESG Risk? .

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Audit Board

AUGUST 2, 2023

Instead, the core priority is to have access to a platform that ties in with your audit and risk teams, because there’s so much collaboration and cross-functional work that needs to happen for a risk and compliance program to be executed with those teams, Karp says. It’s difficult keeping up with changes to requirements and regulations.

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ThomsonReuters

JULY 8, 2021

4 Tips to Close The Technology Gap . Rapid regulatory change, evolving customer needs, and tight competition for talent is forcing tax and accounting firms to rethink their technology and software tools. . Is your tax and accounting firm keeping up with the rapid pace of change or falling behind? .

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Audit Board

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Just earlier this month, President Biden announced through a new Executive Order a new EU-US Data Privacy Framework that may lead toward the US getting an adequacy decision. European Union (EU) organizations face an evolving patchwork of privacy compliance rules and regulations for transferring data across international borders.

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Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Internal control over financial reporting, shortened to ICFR, consists of those controls that support and enforce the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of a company’s financial statements. Part of ICFR includes following Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and applying key controls like segregation of duties to business processes.

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Audit Board

AUGUST 31, 2023

This is the daily conundrum faced by countless internal auditors, risk and compliance managers, board members, C-suite executives, and other professionals whose job descriptions have recently grown to include ESG — a domain where guidance and regulations evolve so rapidly that it’s hard for anyone to keep up.

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Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

You’ll never probably have a perfect third-party list, but can ask the various teams in your company what services they’re providing or using to help find those gaps. . You’ll never probably have a perfect third-party list, but can ask the various teams in your company what services they’re providing or using to help find those gaps. .

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Audit Board

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This SOC 2 Framework Guide was designed to be a starting point to understanding and executing a SOC 2 program, and includes: An overview of the SOC 2 framework structure and requirements , with an at-a-glance summary. SOC 2 is closely aligned to the 17 principles in the COSO framework published in 2013. What Is the SOC 2 Framework?

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Audit Board

JUNE 8, 2023

Compliance audits are a broad topic that can affect many organizations across different parts of an organization. There can be different kinds of compliance audits being performed at any given point in time, and at first glance the world of compliance is full of opacity and acronyms. Performed by an independent or third-party auditor.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2020

A wave of big-ticket transactions by global pharmaceutical companies drove life sciences M&A activity to its fourth-largest year on record in 2019, with aggregate deal value in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotech industry reaching $234.2 Year of the Life Sciences Mega-Deals. billion acquisition of The Medicines Company.

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Erik A. Lopez

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Second, representations and warranties may form the basis of a party’s right to terminate the deal prior to closing. Second, representations and warranties may form the basis of a party’s right to terminate the deal prior to closing. Why do representations and warranties get so much attention? Disclosure. Walk rights.

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Erik A. Lopez

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

But what happens when they transpire during the gap period between signing and closing an M&A transaction? Most sellers would argue that little if anything should happen—the deal should still close at the previously agreed-upon purchase price. Specifically, an MAE must not have occurred during the gap period.

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Audit Board

APRIL 28, 2023

What’s top of mind for chief audit executives right now? Creative approaches to identify, attract, and retain forward-thinking talent. Watch the full conversation, and read the can’t-miss highlights below. Audit Leaders from Hasbro, State Street, and Protiviti discuss audit plan priorities, talent management strategies, and more!

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 27, 2022

You could close out this trade in several ways: Hold Until Maturity – Assuming that neither company defaults and the 3% spread does not change, even if overall interest rates do, you’ll earn an annualized return equal to the YTM of Target Bond – YTM of Walmart Bond – Short Sale Costs. So, you long the Target bond and short the Walmart bond.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

That said, I tweet less than ten times a month and follow only three people (three of my four children) on the platform. I am also fascinated by Elon Musk, and even more so by his most prominent creation, Tesla, and I have valued and written about him and the company multiple times. My forecasted revenues for 2023 of $11.2 by December 26, 2013.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Tech M&A in 2022 was a tale of two halves. The year started off with a bang, with mega-deals such as Microsoft’s pending $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and Broadcom’s pending $61 billion acquisition of VMware inked in quick succession. Deal volumes dropped from $531.13 trillion. [2]

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