Is It Time to Rethink Your Supply Chain Strategy? (Deloitte, 2010) resource Articles OCEG Reviewed
Summary: Given rising transportation costs, some notable quality scares and a burgeoning interest (among consumers and businesses) in environmental footprints, it’s probably not surprising that U.S. companies are asking: Do we have the right supply chain strategy? When baseline assumptions change, why wouldn’t the decisions based on them become outdated?
System for Award Management (SAM) resource Agency Web Sites OCEG Reviewed
The System for Award Management (SAM) is combining eight federal procurement systems and the Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance into one new system. SAM is being deployed in phases, beginning with the “Entity Management” capability and the EPLS portion of the "Performance Information" capability. Currently, this first phase is scheduled to be available in winter 2012.
2004 Federal Sentencing Guidelines Require Employers to Periodically Train All Employees on Workplace Ethics (2004) resource Articles Member contributionOCEG Reviewed
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 directed the United States Sentencing Commission to ensure that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines were "sufficient to deter and punish" organizational criminal misconduct. In response, the Sentencing Commission proposed important amendments to the Guidelines - which will become law on November 1, 2004.
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2005 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey resource Research / Studies Member contributionOCEG Reviewed
American Management Association (AMA) - Employers increasingly are using policy and technology to manage productivity and protect resources.
The 2005 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey was co-sponsored by the American Management Association and The ePolicy Institute. A total of 526 companies participated: 23% represent companies employing 100 or fewer workers, 101–500 employees (25%), 501–1,000 (10%), 1,001–2,500 (13%), 2,501–5,000 (7%) and 5,001 or more (22%).
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2006 Corporate Governance and Compliance Hotline Benchmarking Report (Deloitte) resource Research / Studies OCEG Reviewed
Assessing organizational health is a challenging, ongoing process – one that requires vigilant monitoring. Countless organizations have found hotlines and helplines to be invaluable tools in this process; as such mechanisms generate critical employee feedback and information.
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2006 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) resource Research / Studies Member contributionOCEG Reviewed
2007 National Business Ethics Survey (ERC) resource Research / Studies Member contributionOCEG Reviewed
The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) conducted a survey of 3000 U.S. workers, asking about observation of misconduct in the workplace, ethics training and education, the availability of ethics advice and the reporting percentage of occurrences of misconduct.
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2007 Retail Industry Benchmarking Report:A Statistical Review for Fiscal Years 2006, 2005 and 2004 (Deloitte) resource Research / Studies OCEG Reviewed
Produced by Deloitte and acknowledged by the National Retail Federation, this unique report provides an up-to-date, three-year financial profile of numerous sectors within the retail industry. The report includes publicly available information on 124 U.S.-based retailers grouped into 14 sectors. The comparative statistics are intended to serve as a reference tool for benchmarking leading companies in the industry.
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2007 Review of Payroll Systems: Keeping Ownership of the Client Payroll Relationship (2007) resource Articles Member contributionOCEG Reviewed
According to the IRS, 40 percent of small businesses pay average payroll penalties of $845 per year for late or incorrect filings. Non-penalized mistakes, such as incorrect pay amounts, missing checks and other issues can also cause temporary headaches for employees and, in turn, the business owner having to look into and reprint a check.
The CPA Technology Advisor, September 2007
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2007 State of the Internal Audit Profession Study: Pressures Build for Continual Focus on Risk (PWC) resource White Papers Member contributionOCEG Reviewed
PriceWaterhouseCoopers - "Overview: To enhance organizational risk management, internal audit must embrace ongoing risk monitoring and frequent enterprise-wide risk assessments."
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