I’m very pleased to welcome a guest blog post, written today by Julia Biedry. As a keen fan of Daniel Kahneman’s work, Julia has chosen to delve a bit into the psychology behind important business decisions…

From grade school up …

The ‘F Word’ is enough to get people quite agitated in any discussion. Particularly when it relates to our business processes . . .Yep, I’m talking about Fraud.

We all know it happens, but not in our companies. …

This is an excerpt from a recent white paper:

“The recent 2013 update of the Internal Control Framework issued by the COSO was a major event followed by standard setters and publicly held companies. The original COSO framework …

Leading Indicators and Key Exception Indicators are key tools in optimising finance processes. Gartner’s latest research supports this and even makes the bold claim that predictive business performance measures will help drive productivity by 20 percent by 2017. According …

I am very pleased to welcome a guest blog post today from Irina Predescu. Irina graduated from London School of Economics last year and has since immersed herself in the world of business risk, financial control, finance processes and compliance. …

I was skiing the weekend before last in the Swiss Alps and as luck would have it, a rather interesting conversation developed on a chair lift. A pretty long lift as it happened . . .

The only other person …

An article in CFO magazine today announced the opinion that the US ‘Jumpstart Our Business Startups’ (JOBS) Act, whilst easing the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX, Sarbox) standards, might pave the way for fraud. You can read the article here . . . …

I had a interesting chat with a friend the other day, where he recounted this quote from a world record beating sailor (I forget the name, but it is not critical to the story).

With any new suggestion for additional …