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Sarbox Lite or the end of Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on November 25, 2009
...endence for small companies, refining Section 302 certification rules and changing procedures for whistleblowers, making it even more difficult for them. This tweaking will produce Sarbox Lite. If it...
Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...rg . As if the stuff that was going on before, and the warning they were getting from investors and whistleblowers weren't enough, something I covered this week here . But then, setting up a fra...
UBS whistleblower jailed
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
...sites, there is nothing like an insider. That is why Congress has for years passed laws encouraging whistleblowers by offering job protection to government employees and a cut of any funds recovered b...
Women whistleblowers suffer more
in Sox First, on May 5, 2008
... women are subject to greater levels of retaliation than men. According to the researchers, female whistleblowers reporting incidents of stealing, waste mismanagement, safety breaches, sexual harassm...
100 most influential people in business ethics
in Sox First, on February 19, 2008
...ct on government rules and regulations, business leadership, design and sustainability, handling of whistleblowers, thought leadership, culture, investment and research and corporate culture. Some of...
SOX whistleblower protections extend outside the US
in Sox First, on February 18, 2008
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Hat tip to the Whistleblowers Protection website for alerting us to a court ruling that a former senior employee of global consulting firm Accenture, who was stationed in Paris, can sue for damag...
Who exposes corporate fraud?
in Sox First, on February 12, 2008
...scandals headed up by Enron, politicians and regulators neglected to look carefully at the issue of whistleblowers. Who actually blows the whistle ? What drives them to do it? Important questio...
Interior Department - cozy with oil companies
in Sox First, on September 27, 2007
...he agency within the Interior Department, is letting them get away with it while making trouble for whistleblowers. Also, the new report provides details about the Interior Department paying more tha...
How to develop a whistleblower culture
in Sox First, on September 12, 2007
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How does a company live with whistleblowers? What does it have to do to encourage people to speak when there are issues, but at the same time ensure that it does not throw operations and management...
SOX fails another whistleblower test
in Sox First, on June 12, 2007
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If we needed any further evidence that Sarbanes-Oxley was of not much use to whistleblowers, it came last week when the first person to win whistleblower protection under SOX ended up losing his c...
Sarbanes-Oxley and whistleblowers
in Sox First, on June 5, 2007
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In the past. I have looked at the shortcomings of Sarbanes-Oxley in relation to whistleblowers here and here A recent paper from Richard Moberly sheds light on why the Act does not deliver. ...
Whistleblower incentives?
in Sox First, on May 29, 2007
...er this year, I did a blog entry looking at how Sarbanes-Oxley was close to useless in protecting whistleblowers. So how do solve the problem? One school of thought is to provide financial incentiv...
Whistleblower best practice
in Sox First, on April 18, 2007
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Protecting and encouraging whistleblowers is now the big governance issue. You can bring in laws like Sarbanes-Oxley but they have a limited impact. In fact, they might even make it worse, somethi...
SOX no good for whistleblowers
in Sox First, on February 17, 2007
...ting or auditing matters." According to the study, it doesn't provide much protection for whistleblowers at all. Indeed, after analysing in depth all reported cases of corporate fraud i...
United Airlines Flight 93, conversations and whistleblowers
in Sox First, on November 16, 2006
...ing out. I have written about how fear in the workplace and hierarchical organisations discourage whistleblowers. I've written about how few organisations actually have policies to encourage th...
Silence, the project killer
in Sox First, on October 16, 2006
...e them." But how powerful are these forces. They are exactly the same as the ones confronting whistleblowers....
Follow Up on Michael De Kort and YouTube
in The Digital TV Weblog, on September 19, 2006
...physical shortfalls will likely be released by the end of the month.
It is interesting to see that whistleblowers can become empowered in this new era of Consumer Generated Media ....
Take out the earplugs: whistleblower policies for dummies
in Sox First, on September 6, 2006
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Whistleblowers are now regarded as a key issue in the post Sarbanes-Oxley world with the law specifically providing them with protection from discrimination. But how many organisations have metho...
Fear in the workplace
in Sox First, on August 2, 2006
...Why is it so hard to encourage whistleblowers? Maybe it's because fear appears to be a feature of modern working life. That seems to be the conclusion we can draw from a Harvard Business School ...
Sarbanes-Oxley, Whistleblowers and Culture Clash
in Sox First, on May 16, 2006
...g look at that in www.opednews.com . What's interesting is the attempts in America to elevate whistleblowers to folk-hero status. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, and Enron's...
Buildings blocks for an ethical organisation
in Sox First, on April 13, 2006
...nisation. SOX FIRST: Since Enron, there have been moves around the world to put in laws protecting whistleblowers. Are whistleblowers safer now? ATTRACTA LAGAN: That's just treating the disease....
Calling all whistleblowers
in Sox First, on March 29, 2006
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With material weakness and whistleblowers identified as the two key issues in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley world , it's interesting to read this report in Inc.com about how some companies are us...
Whistleblowers and Lamplighters?
in Sox First, on March 14, 2006
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It's easy to think whistleblowers have become the new protected species in this corporate governance climate. Remember back in December 2002 when Time magazine honored the three women who blew...
Whistleblowers and Slippery Slopes
in Sox First, on February 17, 2006
...t a criminal. Being a whistleblower is a dangerous and unforgiving role. Not much reward in it, as whistleblowers from the FBI, national Security Agency, Defense Department and Energy Departme...
Sarbanes-Oxley: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
in Sox First, on January 11, 2006
...veryone was together in the boat, trying to move it forward. Now, they've got employees who are whistleblowers, you've got management getting subcertifications, people saying, "I'm re...
Accountants at the crossroads
in Sox First, on January 7, 2006
...ent of a heat shield. Companies should also be required, by law, to establish procedures to protect whistleblowers. He wants more attention placed on establishing truly independent compensation commit...
Biggest ethical breaches of 2005
in Sox First, on December 30, 2005
...d abet. Meanwhile, investigations firm Corporate Resolutions has announced an Ethics Hotline for whistleblowers....