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Board Diversity: Let's Make It Personal

A board seeking diversity will typically consider gender, ethnicity, and professional background. It also refers to the variety of personalities that coexist in the boardroom. Deloitte created the Business Chemistry model to reveal distinct patterns of personality-linked behavior, and their impacts on business relationships and ultimately, the boardroom. In this article, published by NACD Directorship Magazine, Bob Kueppers, managing partner, Center for Corporate Governance, Deloitte LLP, discusses the business chemistry model and the characteristics of the personalities identified.

Publication Date: 5/2013 | File size: 72 KB

How Has Compensation Governance Evolved?

2012 Trends in Corporate Governance of the Largest U.S. Companies

In its 2012 annual corporate governance survey, Shearman & Sterling noted that companies have reassessed how they are paying their executives and how they present this information to shareholders. This survey highlights director and executive compensation trends as well as recommended practices that have emerged in the past year.

Publication Date: 5/2013 | File size: 1.7 MB

Enterprise Compliance

The Risk Intelligent Approach

Whether your organization is highly regulated, unregulated, public, or private, it is likely that compliance is a core business issue on your immediate agenda. This publication explains the key components of enterprise compliance and offers senior executives and board members a practical guide to ask questions about their own compliance efforts.

Publication Date: 5/2013 | File size: 3.4 MB

Tone at The Top

Prepared for a Crisis?

A crisis can disrupt an organization in many ways: decrease stock value, damage a company's reputation, alter the organization's culture, and diminish customer confidence - among other impacts. To assist business leaders prepare for crisis, Tone at the Top spoke with crisis management experts who outlined 10 tips companies should consider when preparing for a crisis.

Publication Date: 5/2013 | File size: 1.8 MB

Audit Committee Brief, May 2013

The Road to Convergence

The FASB and IASB have collaborated for several years on an initiative to improve, streamline, and converge key accounting standards. Among the significant areas being addressed are revenue recognition, financial instruments, and lease accounting. When finalized, these new standards have the potential to dramatically change the way companies account for many of their most common transactions. This Audit Committee Brief highlights recent standard-setting developments and includes questions audit committees should consider in preparing for changes.

Publication Date: 4/2013 | File size: 668 KB

The Board's Role in Cultivating a Risk-Intelligent Culture

Hot Topics article, Corporate Governance Monthly

Cultivating a risk-intelligent culture is more than establishing a code of ethics and completing a risk assessment. Economic events have highlighted weaknesses in many organizations in the area of risk governance and management. Recent studies indicate progress on revamping governance practices and establishing infrastructures, but there is still a need for cultivating a risk-intelligent culture. This edition of Deloitte’s Hot Topics discusses possible steps to create this culture.

Publication Date: 4/2013 | File size: 278 KB