This week I talked to the head honchos of Dutch-based sustainability bank Triodos which invests in projects offering social and environmental value.Triodos' funds total EUR3 billion ($US4.25...

Multinationals seem to be driving a lot of the corruption in poor Third World countries, says anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International.According to its 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index,...

Is there a link between foreclosures, the hot housing market and fraud? Very much so, says Anthony Sanders, a professor of finance and real estate at the WP Carey School.Once the housing market...

Globalization, changes in risk management, advances in technology, talent and organizational issues, and changing internal audit roles are ranked as the big issues that will reshape internal auditing...

Interesting comments from Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, speaking at a National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers seminar. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, Kaplan raises serious questions about...

The prospect of US companies following a single global accounting standard seems to be moving closer with Financial Accounting Standards Board chairman Robert Herz he expects the time is coming when...

Drugs giant Bristol-Meyers Squibb and a former subsidiary have been hauled over the coals and forced to pay more than half a billion dollars to settle settle federal and state investigations for...

In the past, I have talked about delinquent communities here and here. I have argued that most corporate frauds are the work of delinquent communities, where you get a whole gang of people in on the...