Employee taxes can be one of the most difficult to understand areas of running a business and hiring employees. If you don't understand all of the complexities involving employee payroll tax, it can also get you into a heap of trouble.
A new report says that an overwhelming majority of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance problems filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can be attributed to systems and staff outside of IT.
Companies will spend nearly $15.5 billion on compliance programs in 2005, according to a recent study by Boston-based AMR Research.
"Compliance" in the true sense of the word cannot stand on its own. It requires a legal requirement or a standard for context. An organization cannot attain compliance unless it specifies what it wants to comply with and to what extent.
Many companies are rethinking their IT auditing policies because of anxiety over new data retention regulations and high profile corporate accounting scandals, data center professionals and industry analysts said.
If you're like plenty of CIOs, compliance requirements have impacted your entire organization -- and your auditors have made surprising requests that cost you more than you anticipated.
Compliance can be complicated, for sure. But there are common trouble spots you can avoid to make your next audit less painful than your last.
In theory, IT auditors and IT professionals want the same thing: a secure, well-designed and efficient IT environment that--ultimately--helps the business better serve all of its customers.
One of the biggest frustrations IT auditors have is that their work sometimes leads to the company's spending time and money to fix things that don't need fixing. That wastes valuable resources that could have been spent elsewhere.
Most business customers are behind the eight ball when it comes to meeting or even understanding the technical requirements needed to comply with the newest government laws for security and privacy.
How should CIOs be treating that murkiest of electronic records -- Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) data. The takeaway? Do exactly as company lawyers tell you to.
Eastman Kodak Co. this week named Patrick Sheller as its first chief compliance officer, joining a growing pack of companies that want a single person representing their slew of new compliance practices and policies.
It used to be that only the largest multi-nationals needed a Compliance Officer. Today most practices, regardless of size, would be wise to charge someone within their organisation with the responsibility of keeping abreast and managing the compliance process.
Companies are breathing a sigh of relief after a year of scrambling and spending for SOX compliance.Next year, however, is not expected to be a piece of cake.
You spent 2004 tearing out your hair over the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Your compliance budget ballooned to several millions of dollars. The enterprise resource project you launched ground to a halt. Now you're alone in the elevator with the newly nominated chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, taking the proverbial two-minute ride to the top. Your plea to Christopher Cox?
Employers will no longer be required to send copies of potentially questionable W-4 withholding forms to the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS announced today.
Compliance for SMBs is quite costly, but the operation and business benefits are well worth the investment.
Recent corporate financial scandals have highlighted the importance of business ethics and legal compliance. Yet a recent National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) survey of 280 corporate CEOs and directors found that "only one of three directors felt that they were highly effective in ensuring legal compliance".
If your policies and procedures are incomplete, outdated or inconsistent, then you are probably not driving the performance improvement you intended. And by improving your business, you can save money and help increase customer satisfaction.
US Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is appealing to small cleaning contractors and facility managers of smaller operations, as well as all other small business operators, to turn to OSHA for assistance in protecting workers from on-the-job injuries.
Companies have spent heavily in recent years to meet the demands of HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and other laws. But all those expensive audits and security tools may be taking a toll on the bottom line, forcing executives to find a cheaper way to comply.
This article concerns your legal obligations and rights concerning the maintenance of a mailing list and in particular the sending of commercial email. It is a tricky subject. You might even think that it is something which does not affect you, but if you have seen what is currently happening on the internet, and what is going to happen in the not so distant future, then you will also know that to ignore these developments would be to put yourself at unnecessary risk.
The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium and basically, since 1994 the W3C has provided the guidelines by which websites and web pages should be structured and created. The rules they outline are based on the "best practices" and while websites don't have to comply to be viewed correctly in Internet Explorer and other popular browsers that cater to incorrect design practices, there are a number of compelling reasons to insure that you or your designer insure that the W3C guidelines are followed and that your site is brought into compliance.
IBM announced the availability of new products designed to help businesses comply with a slew of new federal regulations that concern accounting processes, customer privacy and security.
Safeguarding information contained within computer and data systems has never been more important for businesses and industries such as healthcare, insurance and financial services.
You’ve made the plans, built the quality system and conducted the audit. So how do you register your company as ISO 9001 conformant? And how can you be sure you’re getting the most value for your investment? Here’s how the process works.
Technology has enabled organizations to customize the communications vehicles, permitting targeted content while respecting personal preferences concerning format and frequency of notification. As users become more comfortable with technology, the ways in which they get information from organizations (and how they expect to receive and retrieve information) change, so the vehicles utilized must be modified accordingly.
