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A ruling is expected soon in the case against the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) that is currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Washington Post columnist Jane Bryant Quinn reports that if the PCAOB goes down, Sarbanes-Oxley as a whole will more than likely go down with […]

More than once in the past year, I’ve written about the perceived need for increased oversight of the audit profession in the U.S. (Remember this post? Or this one?) Whether it’s improving communication between internal and external audit teams, finding ways to decrease duplication of effort, or getting serious about auditor registration requirements, the quest […]

As the concept of compliance continues to morph into the broader ideas of governance, risk and compliance (GRC), the number of all-in-one software solutions – those systems that centralize all your compliance efforts in one place, no matter how many different regulatory schemes you need to track — grows.
The latest appears to be an offering from UK-based Logicalis: a […]

European Union member states will be required to implement the remainder of the EU’s version of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the coming months, according to Techworld. The Statutory Audit Directive was to be incorporated into member states’ laws by the end of June. They have until September 5, 2008, to include the Company Reporting Directive.
Unlike the quick […]

Last month, I wrote about Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault and the questions such services raise about interoperability of record formats, e-health records ease of use, and the value of a repository of personal health information to patients.
After reading about the efforts of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), I agreed that interoperability was […]