Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 last week, hours after its unanimous approval by the State Assembly and Senate. When it takes effect, it will be the toughest data privacy law in the United States, with many similar provisions as the European Union’s General Data Read More
A federal judge on Monday said PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP must pay $625.3 million in damages to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp for failing to uncover fraud that led to one of the largest bank failures of the global financial crisis. U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein found it more likely than not Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted last week to expand the definition for companies to qualify for the “smaller reporting company” (SRC) status, thereby increasing the number of companies that don’t need to meet the stiffer disclosure rules required of larger companies. The new smaller reporting company definition enables a Read More
In a consent order signed with eight states, credit reporting agency Equifax agreed to adopt several measures to shore up weaknesses across a wide spectrum of its IT and data security operations. The order includes a provision to beef up its internal audit program. It requires better assessments of internal Read More
Former Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS) managing director Michael Fingleton has admitted he failed to read internal audit reports at the failed building lender and signed letters to the financial regulator without reading them. A Central Bank of Ireland inquiry into the lender’s €5.4 billion ($6.24 billion) collapse is looking Read More
Editor’s Note: This is part two of a six-part series on the Internal Audit Value Chain, which can act as a blue print for building a successful internal audit function. Click here for the other articles in the series. Whenever it comes to talking about internal audit’s role in risk Read More
Innovation in compliance translates to a business advantage for companies. “This can be easily seen in the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into a compliance program by bringing technology that will improve the efficiency of compliance and will assist in the operationalization of compliance into the fabric of every business Read More
People’s Trust Insurance is blocking public release of an internal audit report on an investigation into its current CEO’s claims that its former CEO used company funds illegally before his January 2014 death. The audit was ordered by the state office of Florida after current CEO George Schaeffer alleged that Read More
“Where there’s money, there’s money to steal,” writes Tiffany Couch in a recent article in Accounting Today. The CEO of forensic accounting firm Acuity Forensics says that even after 15 years as a forensic accountant, it never ceases to amaze her that fraudsters think they can get away with their Read More
An angry Tesla employee tried to damage the company by inserting bad code into the electric car company’s manufacturing system and illegally exporting data to third parties. The case serves as a reminder to the damage that rogue employees can do and the need for internal controls to prevent such Read More
