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Is Travel Your Weak Spot?

BY Carol Ann Salcito
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Can the Sarbanes-Oxley Act positively affect your corporate travel policies and practices? Here's how -- and why.READ MORE›

Scandal, Us

BY Fast Company Staff
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Three years after Arthur Anderson's conviction on obstruction of justice charges, the revisionists are closing in. The public has largely moved on, satisfied that something is being done even if the outcome isn't neat and clean. The ...READ MORE›

Is the Ebbers Verdict Good for Marketers?

BY Fast Company Staff
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The Ebbers verdict will likely create a significant opportunity for marketers in privately held enterprises competing against larger, publicly traded enterprises. His guilty verdict will have a major chilling effect (above and beyond ...READ MORE›

Five Ways to Jump-start Your Company's Ethics

BY Barbara Ley Toffler
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Want to make a real difference in your organization? That is going to take some hard, serious work. Here's where to start.READ MORE›

Accounting: Beyond the Basics

BY Anita Osterhaug, Technology Reporter
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From monthly profit-and-loss statements to annual reports, accounting is just basic business hygiene, right? Wrong. Read on to see how your business can use financial information as a strategic tool to improve day-to-day business results.READ MORE›

Confidence Is Not a Game

BY Ryan Underwood
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Who: Charles D. Niemeier

Title: Acting Chairman of the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Where: Washington, DC

Challenge: To restore integrity to corporate accounting (and rescue capitalism)READ MORE›

What It Means to Govern: For-Profit and Nonprofit Boards

BY Alice Korngold
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September 16 - At the Global Boards Forum, presented today in New York City by Directorship and Global Proxy Watch, 80 directors of public companies gathered to discuss board member responsibilities. Particularly striking to me ...READ MORE›

The SEC: What's Wrong And How To Fix It

BY Greg Selker
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Noted legal expert, Marc Morgenstern speaks his mind in this Selker Leadership interview on what is wrong with the SEC and potentially how it can be fixed, coming to the conclusion that the natural human tendency towards greater regulation is exactly the wrong approach to deliver safety, transparency and liquidity. This is part 1 of a 2 part seriesREAD MORE›

SAS 70 | Why are Companies being asked more and more for Type II Audits?

BY charles denyer
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It primarily stems from the fact the Sarbanes Oxley along with other regulatory compliance laws and rulings, such as HIPAA and GLBA, are having a deep impact on service organizations. These service organizations are the outsourcing, ...READ MORE›

Carbon Copy

BY David Roberts
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Disclose your greenhouse-gas emissions? Sounds crazy. Why Wal-Mart and P&G are doing it--and you should too.READ MORE›

What's The ROI On That Skybox?

BY Amy Feldman
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Bank of America's ticket inventory numbers in the hundreds of thousands, including seats in more than 80 suites for teams like the Boston Red Sox, the Dallas Cowboys, and the San Francisco Giants. Managing that inventory? That wasn't ...READ MORE›

Optimize the Buying Process: Transactional vs. Consultative Marketing Models

BY Heath Row
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Bill Carper is senior director of global marketing for Oracle Corp. During his talk at Ad:Tech 2003 today, he considered tactics and strategies for marketing organizations driven for immediate sales, as well as to provide layered ...READ MORE›

Carrot v. Stick

BY Chris Jarvis
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Enron, WorldCom, AIG… CSR was born into a world because of failure, lack of oversight and is a concept that we must compel companies to follow. This stance has never sat right with me, as it makes CSR a dirty word that ethical and progressive companies shouldn’t subscribe.READ MORE›

You can change the rules but that won’t change the outcome.

BY nwolfe@quantumleaders.com
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Why do we think more legislation will change the way executives behave?READ MORE›

How to Drive a Stake into the Hearts of Shareholders

BY John A. Lee
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A recovery without jobs? Halfway through the current recession, it's clear things would have been different if companies had invested in stakeholders and not shareholders. We fired the very people who can turn this around.READ MORE›

SAS 70 Audits | How Much do they Cost?

BY charles denyer
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SAS 70 Type I and Type II Audits have become so common in today's regulatory compliance environment, and due in large part to the enormous growth of federal legislation, particularly the like of Sarbanes-Oxley, along with HIPAA ...READ MORE›

G.A.M.P. is the Future of Management

BY Michael Kramer
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Consider the following three scenarios: Scenario #1: You are the CEO of a growing enterprise. You need to simultaneously manage numerous projects and business processes. The weight ...READ MORE›

Reader's Choice

BY Fast Company Staff
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An extensive study offers lessons from the rogues' gallery of business.READ MORE›

How To Help Your Company Focus on the New World of Risk

BY Adrian J. Slywotzky and Karl Weber
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Three tips on the changing face of risk to help your company plan for the future.READ MORE›

Live from Pop!Tech: My Kind of Dinner Party

BY Chuck Salter
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The beauty of this conference is the range of speakers. It's the sort of eclectic gathering that would make for a helluva dinner party. At one end of the table you'd have Paul Potak asking, "Why is it that 90 percent of designers ...READ MORE›

It's All in the Cards

BY Carol Ann Salcito
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What's the future of Expense Management? One word: Plastic.READ MORE›

Dumb and Dumber

BY Jennifer Reingold
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I loved this quote in this morning's Wall Street Journal about former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers' taking the stand in his own defense. "I know what I don't know," Ebbers said. "I focused on the area that I thought I could handle." ...READ MORE›

SAS 70 Audits and What You Need to Know about Pricing, Scope and other Items

BY charles denyer
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The SAS 70 auditing Standard, put forth in 1992, has become such an important element in today's ever-growing compliance world. From Sarbanes Oxley, to HIPAA and Gramm Leach Bliley, the auditing standard has exploded onto the scene ...READ MORE›

File Under Strange

BY Fast Company Staff
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Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy has apparently apologized to the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to The New York Post. Scott had earlier called the SEC's actions to clean up the debris from all those ...READ MORE›

Tracing Our (Grass) Roots

BY Lucas Conley
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With our November issue, Fast Company will celebrate 10 years of publication. Each month until then, we'll review one of our favorite editions from the first decade.READ MORE›

Topic: Sarbanes-Oxley Act