The Wall Street Journal

Internal Controls: Are PE Firms Overlooking a Portfolio Company Value Driver?

Private equity firms are often looking for ways to boost the value of their portfolio companies. But in this quest, there’s one powerful lever that often gets overlooked: internal controls. Finance ...
Accounting Today

Art of Accounting: Internal controls toolkit for consultations by small firms

When I was in college, I had a course in internal controls taught by the professor my father had when he was in college. I don’t believe much has changed since my father learned about internal ...
Yahoo Finance

2-Day SOX & Internal Controls Update (November 12-13, 2025): Led by National Accounting Firm Technical Experts from Deloitte, PwC, Ernst & Young and Other Major Companies

Dublin, July 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "SOX & Internal Controls Update 2025" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. SOX and Internal Control best practices continue to ...
The Wall Street Journal

A 5-Step Guide to Stronger Internal Controls

Increasing business complexity and regulatory requirements are driving continual change to the risk environments for many organizations, and historical approaches to risk and controls may not be ...
JD Supra

The Importance of Accounting and Internal Controls (Part I of II)

Here are some basic propositions that surround FCPA compliance. It is often underplayed that the FCPA contains more than just a bribery prohibition – the FCPA contains broad provisions, requiring ...
Accounting Today

Art of Accounting: Cash, minutes and internal control

When I was a junior accountant eons ago, my boss would always give me the cash to reconcile or audit, the minutes to “abstract,” and the internal control questionnaire to go over with the controller ...
JD Supra

Called to Account: SEC's Latest Internal Accounting Controls Action Reignites Debate

Several years ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order against a public company that raised more than a few eyebrows. In that order, the company settled to violations of ...

Internal Control Is Not Just for Large Corporations—'Verifying' Is Not 'Suspecting'

We’re a company of just over ten people, so internal control is overkill for us.”“Everyone has been working here for a long ...
Yahoo Finance

SOX & Internal Controls Update 2025: Understand the Latest Regulatory/Best Practice Changes in Key Areas, Led by National Accounting Firm Technical Experts and Industry Panelists

Dublin, May 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "SOX & Internal Controls Update 2025" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. SOX and Internal Control best practices continue to ...
Law

The Evolving Scope of the Exchange Act’s Internal Accounting Controls Provision

White & Case attorneys discuss the changing scope of the internal accounting controls provision under Section 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act. They analyze recent developments and highlight growing ...
Reuters

GM says internal accounting controls "ineffective"

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. has concluded that its internal controls on financial reporting are "ineffective," after a six-week delay in reporting 2006 results prompted by repeated ...