To protect revenue and profits, multinationals can tap into three trends that promise to buck worldwide slowing population and consumption growth over the next 15 years.
When considering whether or not to merge, acquire, or be acquired, companies must deal with several key considerations. Financial and systems questions must be answered, but culture should also be considered.
Regulators worldwide are increasingly under pressure to investigate corruption and fraud across borders and recover proceeds of misconduct. To ensure their multinational companies are mitigating their corruption and fraud risk, boards should take these four steps.
Organisations with strong ethics and compliance functions do more than check the box. They employ a strategy that is documented, measured, evaluated, and improved, according to a report from the Ethics and Compliance Institute.
Insufficient resources and a perceived lack of value are among the obstacles for some companies in full implementation of enterprise risk management programmes.
The cost of doing business in a market is an important factor in where in the world a company expands. Find out how the NAFTA region and mature markets in Europe and Asia Pacific rank.
The presence of anti-fraud controls such as management reviews and telephone hotlines can greatly reduce the damage done by fraud schemes. And the use of such controls is slowly on the rise.
Setting specific criteria, doing a thorough review of a vendor’s insurance, and establishing a formal and regular performance evaluation system will help organisations improve risk management related to vendors. ERM experts Donna Galer and Al Decker offer more insight.
Small and midsize companies follow five strategies to increase revenue, head count, and investments while doing business in an uncertain global economy, PwC research suggests.
Uncertain economic conditions and pervasive, damaging cyber-threats did not prevent regulation from remaining the most worrisome risk for organisations, a new survey shows.
Expect Chinese businesses to boost overseas investments, but not necessarily where they have put their money in the past decade, research by the Economist Intelligence Unit suggested.
Five key traits help leaders of the most effective internal audit functions develop teams that provide effective risk management and an integrated assurance strategy across the organization.
Audit regulators across the globe saw some improvement in audit quality in their latest annual survey, but they say the pace of improvement needs to be faster.
Auditors and others that deal with a company’s financial statement will experience new challenges as a result of implementation of new financial reporting standards requiring reporting of expected credit losses related to financial instruments.
The results of a recent PwC survey might not appear to be particularly alarming: the percentage of organisations that experienced economic crime in the previous 24 months was down, albeit only slightly. Scratch beneath the surface, however, and it doesn’t take long to find signs of trouble.
