Integrated Control Environment (ICE) is a web-based Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform which improves governance, reduces risk and significantly enhances compliance management with ease. Created with auditors for audit, finance and risk management professionals, ICE gives you the power to achieve best practice in the design, documentation, monitoring, auditing and reporting of your control framework. By using…
Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions provide value by helping organisations to manage the complexity of information management, process execution, and stakeholder coordination in light of increasing volatility, regulatory complexity and change, and other concerns. The resulting benefits generally relate to improved visibility into and mitigation of risk factors while reducing manual efforts on the…
As most market watchers know, the number of initial public offerings has soared in recent years. Much less obviously, and maybe a bit counter-intuitively, another capital-markets trend has emerged: The percentage of IPOs revealing material weaknesses in the governance of their internal controls before they go public has been rising steadily. Read more on cfo.com…
As the Sarbanes Oxley Act celebrates lucky birthday number 13 this summer, it’s tempting to hold the view that, by now, most public companies have – or should have – mastered the compliance process and achieved a level of stability in the costs and hours required. Unfortunately, this is not the case, largely because of…
