Audit Board

AUGUST 16, 2023

In times of economic crisis, business leadership must lean on the guidance and insights of its audit, risk, and compliance professionals to make decisions that protect value. There are a number of measures internal auditors can take to provide extra risk assurance to the business during periods of economic volatility.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 10, 2023

The need to assess material environmental and social risks and opportunities does not disappear in an economic downturn. The global ESG regulatory mosaic will become increasingly more complicated, creating potential conflicts and risks. Both anticipated and less expected changes occurred across the ESG landscape in 2022.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 14, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) is considering proposals that would require public companies to disclose reliable and complete information about the risks of climate change. Few public companies would file periodic reports with the SEC without providing them to counsel for review.

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Audit Board

MAY 5, 2023

With SEC reporting requirements looming on the horizon, companies are getting more serious about formalizing their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) programs. More than half of executives are reporting that the data availability that they have is really a challenge that they’re seeing.

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Audit Board

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Kristen Sullivan: When you really step back and think about this whole sustainability and climate transition movement, it is one of the biggest capital market transformation opportunities in a generation. Leading Considerations for Internal Auditors Ahead of the SEC’s Proposed Climate Rule.

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Audit Board

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In response to rising prompts from regulators and internal and external stakeholders alike, more organizations than ever are now focused on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) risks. How internal audit and risk leaders can layer ESG components into their audit plans and ERM strategy. . Xpress, Inc. Xpress, Inc.

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Audit Board

AUGUST 8, 2023

Enterprise risk management is a methodology of risk management, taking a top-down approach to the risk management process, and taking into account the organization and senior management’s business objectives and strategic objectives. The practice of risk management has a long history, with origins dating back to the 1920s.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal relating to whether there is a private right of action for omissions from the disclosures required by Item 303 of Regulation S-K (i.e., Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, or “MD&A”).

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Audit Board

JUNE 13, 2022

Integrated risk management (IRM) is a strategic and collaborative way for organizations to manage risk across their entire group. This strategy accepts risk as a part of doing business, and pulls it into a company’s culture so that the organization manages risk as a part of both daily operations and long-term strategy.

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Audit Board

DECEMBER 7, 2022

On your connected risk journey, careful planning and guidance from audit, risk management, and compliance professionals are essential for business success when facing risk challenges such as digital transformation, climate change, supply chain disruption, and economic uncertainty. This is the decade of uncertainty.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 26, 2022

I could have supported a proposal to require advisers and funds to answer three questions about their ESG products and services: If you offer products or services you label as some formulation of “E,” “S,” or “G,” what does the label mean with respect to each such product or service? In any event, this proposed rule misses the mark.

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Audit Board

MAY 15, 2023

In today’s modern threat landscape, compliance risk, cybersecurity risk, fraud risk, and even climate change risk can have a significant impact on your company’s reputation and bottom line. While you’ll never be able to eliminate business risk entirely, prevention is the best insurance against loss.

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Audit Board

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The evolving world of ESG reporting has launched many different frameworks and standards intended to address the environmental , social , and governance stance of organizations. The CSRD will be mandatory, and is expected to impact almost 50,000 EU companies and at least 10,000 non-EU companies.

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Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Companies seeking to align corporate reporting with accepted ESG standards have chosen from one or more of these frameworks. But as an ever-wider pool of stakeholders sought to use ESG reporting in their decision-making, the need for consistency, transparency, and comparability became clear.

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Audit Board

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Purpose-built extension to AuditBoard’s innovative connected risk platform operationalizes ESG programs for audit and risk teams in response to rising oversight. . The report highlights that more than 60% of risk and compliance leaders anticipate ESG having a significant or moderate impact on their organizations in the next year.

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Audit Board

MARCH 17, 2022

Environmental is what most people think about when you mention sustainability, things like impact to climate, climate risk, carbon emissions, energy usage, waste and water management. Climate risk is obviously a hot topic right now especially in financial services and energy. To start, what is ESG?

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Audit Board

JULY 19, 2023

The single piece of advice I offer internal auditors more than any other is to “follow the risks.” If internal auditors follow the risks, they enjoy a much greater likelihood of allocating scarce internal audit resources where organizations are most vulnerable. It isn’t just internal auditors who are hesitant when it comes to culture.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 25, 2023

Our Goals Protecting the Investing Public; Maintaining a Robust, Relevant Regulatory Framework; Supporting a Skilled and Diverse Workforce The United States has the largest, most sophisticated, and most innovative capital markets in the world. capital markets represent about 40 percent of the global capital market. A record 67 million U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The actions highlighted by the SEC in its press release provide valuable insights into evolving trends and a roadmap for industry players as to ongoing initiatives. On November 14, 2023, the U.S. In addition, the Whistleblower Program continued to grow significantly with a record-high number of awards and tips.

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 29, 2023

According to Franklin University , your clients need accounting leaders who can translate data into valuable insights that can help improve business outcomes. Like any company, your firm faces daily accounting problems that are part of normal operations : staffing, client acquisition, cash flow, and profit management.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 6, 2023

2] I hope that the New Special Study will generate insights that are still relevant sixty years from now. Good morning and thank you, [Columbia Law School] Dean [Gillian] Lester, for the introduction. When the foundational securities laws were enacted in the early 1930s, there was a significant focus on the individual corporate issuer.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 27, 2023

Darla led the Society’s efforts on numerous topics related to shareholders and corporate governance. Impact of Changed Staff Positions The trends in shareholder proposals during the past two proxy seasons can be traced, in part, to changes to long-standing Commission staff positions on rule 14a-8. Staff Legal Bulletin No.

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Audit Board

AUGUST 31, 2023

With the rise of each new question or headline about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks and regulatory requirements, your organization expects you to have answers. What to Know About the UK, EU, and US Climate Disclosure Requirements: Essentials Current Status Why the increasing urgency? We’re here to help.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 22, 2023

SIGNIFICANT LEGAL AND REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS IN 2022 SEC’s proposed climate-related disclosure rules: On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed expansive climate-related disclosure requirements in a proposing release that, if adopted, would require U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 27, 2023

The Supreme Court has also heard, or will hear, administrative law cases that will impact securities Several cases pending at the circuit court level may have wide-ranging effects on securities litigation as well. We examine developments in federal securities litigation involving special purpose acquisition companies.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 26, 2023

The SEC rules have long mandated disclosure related to board organization and description of committee responsibilities. In 2022, public companies witnessed a new kind of corporate governance activism.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2024

Cross-border M&A activity in 2023 was impacted by heightened geopolitical conflicts, high inflation and interest rates, and increased regulatory pressures as the global economy remained clouded by looming recession fears. Deal financing became more difficult and expensive, placing more emphasis on alternative funding and value creation.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Financial Stability Oversight Council revised its interpretive guidance and analytic framework for FSOC’s authority to designate nonbank financial companies for Federal Reserve supervision and regulation and to otherwise monitor and respond to financial stability risks.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 25, 2023

I want to describe this growing divide, to describe some of the underlying political economy that accounts for this difference, and to suggest its danger for the critical task ahead: the aggressive effort to reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 29, 2022

At the same time, recent amendments to Rule 14a-8 had only a very minor impact on shareholder submissions. Summary of Top Shareholder Proposal Takeaways from the 2022 Proxy Season. In November 2021, the Staff issued Staff Legal Bulletin No. 3, 2021) (“SLB 14L”). [3]

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 5, 2023

As public interest and scrutiny into environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues continue to rise, companies face an ever-evolving landscape relating to their ESG disclosures. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed rules that could require increased ESG disclosures. Environmental Disclosures Regulatory actions.

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