Corporate Governance
– The Changing Regulations and Implications

Speaker:  Andrew Perons
Manager, Risk & Compliance, Strata Works K.K.

Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis being placed on Corporate Governance, with the regulatory environment becoming ever more stringent in the pursuit of the objective to ensure a company’s board is accountable to its shareholders and that investors are protected through more reliable and accurate disclosure by companies. A number of recent and upcoming laws, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the U.S.; the Combined Code in the UK; the proposed 8th Company Law Directive in the EU, and the upcoming “J-SOX” legislation, are serving to enforce the need for directors and auditors to pay ever closer attention to the changing regulatory environment when they prepare and give opinions on a company’s financial statements. These laws and Personal Information Protection Acts in various countries are putting increasing pressure on companies’ compliance requirements.

Our presenter, Andrew Perons of Strataworks, will discuss the various laws which may be applicable to global business and then moves on to some of the implications of compliance and non-compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Basel II. The focus will be on internal control with discussion on the potential benefits and drawbacks of the need to comply, then turn to the requirements for running an effective compliance readiness program and the place of IT within the effective design and operation of internal controls. This is the first in a two part series with November’s presentation focusing more closely on the impacts and implications for your IT department.

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