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Given their oversight roles, how can boards and audit committees help ensure that the company is getting the appropriate insights from data and analytics while taking the necessary precautions to protect the company, its employees, customers, and others?
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Top cyber security considerations for the board
Tony Buffomante, Principal of KPMG’s Cyber Practice, talks about board of directors’ involvement with their organizations’
KPMG Cyber: Exercising board oversight responsibly
Recent issues
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Top cyber security considerations in 2019
As cyber security efforts evolve to become an integral part of broader risk management, here are six issues for boards to consider.
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Directors Quarterly: April 2019
In this edition: board engagement in strategy, highlights from our Board Leadership conference, voting in proxy fights, and more.
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Leading with agility and purpose
Insights and highlights from the 2019 KPMG Board Leadership Conference, including the economic and geopolitical outlook; the CEO perspective; board engagement in strategy; technology, digital disruption, data risk, and privacy; long-term performance; shareholder versus stakeholder primacy; talent, diversity, culture, the workforce of the future; and hot topics for board committees.
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Q4 2018 focus: Financial reporting and audit update
This quarter, and in the months ahead, a number of developments impacting financial reporting will need to be front and center for audit committees.
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On the 2019 board agenda
Seven items for boards to consider as they focus their 2019 agendas on the critical challenges at hand and on the road ahead.
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On the 2019 audit committee agenda
Seven items for audit committees to keep in mind as they consider and carry out their 2019 agendas.
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Q1 2018 focus: Financial reporting and audit update
This quarter, and in the months ahead, a number of developments impacting financial reporting will need to be front and center for audit committees.
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Board’s-eye view of data and analytics
Given their oversight roles, how can boards and audit committees help ensure that the company is getting the appropriate insights from data and analytics while taking the necessary precautions to protect the company, its employees, customers, and others?
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SEC cybersecurity guidance: Takeaways for boards
Amid increasing cyber threats and recent massive breaches, the SEC issued interpretive guidance on cybersecurity disclosures that applies to public companies registered with the Commission
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Navigating uncertainty: The long view
It’s clear that, as the business and risk environment becomes more complex, the board’s ability to prioritize and devote enough time to substantive issues becomes more challenging
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Connecting the dots: Cybersecurity in the boardroom
The ongoing threat of cyber attacks has put cyber risk near the top of board and audit committee agendas.
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The new mindset in cyber security: The board lens
Has the cyber risk and security conversation in the boardroom kept pace with the business? Better yet, does the board have the assurance that operations, technology, and risk management are communicating on cyber expectations and priorities?
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On the 2018 private company board agenda
Board agendas should continue to evolve in 2018 as the game-changing implications of technology/digital innovation, scrutiny of corporate culture and leadership.
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On the 2018 board agenda
Drawing on insights from our work and interactions with directors and business leaders over the past 12 months, we’ve highlighted six items for boards consider in their 2018 agendas—on the critical challenges at-hand and on the road ahead.
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Directors quarterly: October 2017
Given their oversight roles, how can boards and audit committees help ensure that the company is getting the appropriate insights from data and analytics while taking the necessary precautions to protect the company, its employees, customers, and others?
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Directors quarterly: July 2017
This edition of Directors Quarterly includes highlights from our Spring Roundtable series on the board’s role in oversight of culture, highlights from our recent CEO survey, and a financial reporting and auditing update, as well as thoughts on dual-class shares and decision-making in the boardroom.
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Cyber risk areas of focus for the audit committee
What information is key to assessing whether management has its arms around cyber risk? Certainly, the audit committee needs to hear from a Chief Information Security Officer or Chief Information Officer who is knowledgeable and can help them see the big picture. But what should be the key areas of focus? While the answer will vary depending on the situation, we suggest four areas of focus.
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On the 2017 higher education audit committee agenda
Four areas for higher education audit committees to consider as they carry out their 2017 agendas
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Going the distance Insights from the 2017 Audit Committee Issues Conference
Highlights and insights from the 2017 Audit Committee Issues Conference in Boca Raton include Going the Distance, a recap of the conference’s main sessions, including keynote addresses and panel discussions, and Risk Just Got Riskier, detailing key points shared by directors in the accompanying peer exchanges.
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2017 Global audit committee pulse survey: Is everything under control?
The survey findings offer insights that audit committees around the world can use to sharpen their focus, benchmark responsibilities and practices, and strengthen oversight.
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Good cybersecurity doesn't try to prevent every attack
Cybersecurity and data protection are no longer just IT risks; they’re strategic business risks of the highest order.
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Global boardroom insights: Audit committee effectiveness
Audit committee effectiveness clearly hinges on some fundamentals, including the right committee composition and dynamics; an up-to-date charter with well-defined responsibilities; a risk-based approach to setting the committee's agenda; an understanding of current and emerging issues; and proactive, engaged oversight beyond the boardroom.
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Global Boardroom Insights: Calibrating risk oversight
In this edition of Global Boardroom Insights, seasoned directors and risk professionals from the around the world share their thoughts on how boards are strengthening their oversight of risk—particularly in the context of strategy.
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Global boardroom insights:The audit committee workload
In this issue of Global Boardroom Insights, KPMG’s Audit Committee Institute asked audit committee chairs around the world for their views on the audit committee’s workload.
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Global boardroom insights: Audit quality and communications
In the latest issue of Global Boardroom Insights, KPMG's Audit Committee Institute talked to seasoned directors from the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong and the United States for perspectives on a range of issues concerning audit quality and communications