All Regulation articles – Page 6

  • Features

    A step-by-step approach to SOX

    2004-11-04T00:00:00Z

    With the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadline for US-headquartered companies imminent (the first reporting date is November 2004), what lessons can be learned by those UK companies that also have to com

  • Features

    A Slice of American Pie?

    2004-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Many European groups are looking to expand into the US Steven Blair and Mark Bunim discuss the risks for UK companies, which result from the very different legal culture - and how to avoid the pitfall

  • Features

    Sick notes

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack looks at the growing focus on absence management, and at how Tesco is tackling the issue

  • Special Reports

    Risk management for an enlarged EU

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Jeff Manners says that companies operating in the Central European countries that joined the EU this year will need a structured approach to risk management to gain competitive advantage

  • Features

    Comment

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Serious pollution incidents are down on 2002

  • Features

    The new risk management challenge

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Jenny Rayner explores the implications for risk managers of the new mandatory Operating and Financial Review

  • Features

    Pushing back the frontiers

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Gemma Rogers reviews the recent ALARM conference

  • Features

    Disclosing The Facts

    2004-06-29T00:00:00Z

    New legislation will encourage UK companies to provide more information for stakeholders But, without compulsion, will anything change?

  • Features

    Managing a Disaster

    2004-06-29T00:00:00Z

    You need to be sure that you can manage after a disaster rather than letting the disaster manage you, say Clive Fletcher-Wood and Alyson Tanner

  • Features

    Honouring the Pensions promise

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    The risk from defined benefit pension promises is inextricably linked to the sponsoring company's finances This was always the case but the accounting standard FRS17 has emphasised it in a way that ma

  • Analysis

    Hazards from EU Enlargement

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    A new study suggests that EU harmonisation could erode the cost advantages that newly-joined states currently enjoy, and could leave British importers liable if products sourced from these countries d

  • Features

    Asbestos Update

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Over 100 years after it was first publicly revealed in a UK parliamentary report to be hazardous to health, asbestos has made an unwelcome return to the top of organisations' risk registers, says Neil

  • Features

    Sour Milk

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack looks at Parmalat's problems and at how they might have been detected sooner

  • Features

    Feeling the Effects

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    While only eligible UK companies will fall within the Sarbanes-Oxley net, the UK government is considering additional legislation that will apply to all David Saunders writes.

  • Analysis

    Corporate killing warning

    2004-04-21T00:00:00Z

    eCity law firm Norton Rose has released research on the Government's proposals for a new corporate killing bill

  • Features

    THE NEW UK REGIME

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The Combined Code on Corporate Governance, published on 23 July 2003 will affect companies in respect of their reporting years beginning on or after 1 November 2003 How should you manage risk under th

  • Features

    Comment

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Trade & Industry's consultative document on director and auditor liability, published in December, is likely to arouse strong feelings both from business groups who feel that directo

  • Features

    CARRYING THE CAN

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Who should take responsibility when things go wrong - the company or its individual directors? - asks Tan Ikram

  • Features

    NO ACCOUNTING FOR MISTAKES

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Gary Hazzard explores the increased responsibility of company executives to ensure financial reporting is accurate, and explains how software solutions can help

  • Features

    Special Report - Corporate Risk Management and EIL

    2003-12-28T00:00:00Z

    With the legal goal posts constantly moving, environmental risk is hard to manage, warns David Thomas.