Compliance Week is relentlessly focused on corporate governance, risk, and compliance. Below are some of the topics we regularly cover; more thorough searches can be conducted in the upper-left corner of our Website.

Accounting and Auditing: From FIN 48 and “fair value” developments, to audit fees and restatement issues. Coverage of FASB and PCAOB developments can also be found here.

Boards and Committees: Board policies, audit & compensation committee practices, D&O insurance, independent directors, and more.

Case Studies in Compliance: Editorial case studies (i.e., these are not advertisements) of companies that have deployed a variety of SOX and GRC software products.

Compliance and Technology: Coverage of IT issues as they pertain to risks to reliable financial reporting, internal controls, ERM, records retention, etc.

Electronic Discovery and the Revised FRCP: Coverage of the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as it pertains to “electronically stored information.”

Enforcement & Litigation: Latest developments related to SEC and DoJ enforcement, class-action filings, precedent-setting court decisions, and more.

Enterprise Risk Management: Includes guidance on ERM and insights on risk assessments, continuous auditing, the COSO guidance, and more.

Ethics & Codes: Coverage and guidance on topics ranging from tone-at-the-top and gift policies, to Q&As with (and lessons from) chief ethics officers.

Executive Compensation: Includes coverage of the SEC's compensation disclosure guidelines, shareholder and proxy pressures, 409A, backdating, perks, SERPs, and more.

FASB and Financial Accounting Standards: Includes coverage of recent FASB provisions and accounting standards and guidance, including fair value, FIN 48, FAS 133, and more.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Includes coverage, columns, and guidance related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, antifraud, antibribery, and related issues.

GRC Illustrated: A unique series of visual representations of key governance, risk, and compliance initiatives; created with the Open Compliance and Ethics Group.

International, Global Issues: Includes coverage of EU directives, IFRS reconciliation, IASB pronouncements, exchange convergence, and more.

Internal Control Over Financial Reporting: Includes coverage of SOX Section 404, the PCAOB's Audit Standard No. 5, and related “top-down, risk-based” issues.

Majority Voting, Proxy Issues: Includes coverage of the shareholder democracy movement, from proxy fights and broker voting to “advisory votes” and director elections.

Q&A Interviews: Dozens of on-the-record Q&As with chief governance, risk, and compliance officers at Home Depot, Pepsi, Sunoco, Altria, Tyco, UPS, Microsoft, and others.

Remediation Center: Experts answer reader questions on a variety of governance, compliance issues.

Shareholders & Institutions: Exploring the pressures that activist investors—pension funds, hedge funds, unions, etc.—are increasingly placing on corporations.

Stock Option Expensing: Includes coverage of FAS 123(R), and related guidance on fair-value accounting and grant-date communication issues.

Sustainability and CSR: Includes coverage and guidance on sustainability issues, from risks and disclosure challenges to the Global Reporting Initiative.

The McNulty Memo and Penalty Guidelines: Includes coverage of The McNulty Memo and penalty guidelines, as well as related topics on cooperation during investigations.

Whistleblowing & Hotlines: Includes coverage of the SOX whistleblower provisions, as well as global guidance (i.e., in France and Germany) and recent complaints and standards.

XBRL: Includes coverage of the SEC’s push into what it calls “interactive data”; namely, financial reports of issuers filed using eXtensible Business Reporting Language.