The chances of success may be no better than 50-50. How to tip the balance in your favor? A new A.T. Kearney study isolates the key success factors.

Tax authorities in the United States and around the world are stepping up their scrutiny of multinational companies' cross-border transfers. A report from KPMG lists the red flags and identifies ways to mitigate the risk.

Dating back to the days of the mainframe, general ledgers have grown steadily flabbier as companies have piled more and more detail into their chart of accounts. The result: slow, inefficient, redundant financial systems. A white paper from ISA Consulting points to a way out.

Many companies that offshore their general and administrative processes, either through a captive offshore operation or a business process outsourcing (BPO) service provider, save 25 percent to 50 percent of their baseline costs, according to new research from The Hackett Group.

How advances in optical character recognition and intelligent data capture are easing the ebb-and-flow of accounts payable processing.

John McCain and Barack Obama both want to introduce a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions. A PricewaterhouseCoopers report looks at the implications for corporate financial statements.

Behind the SEC's recent mandate sits not another hefty compliance challenge, but perhaps one of the biggest accounting breakthroughs in years.

Sarbanes-Oxley was a wake-up call, but few companies had the time to get methodical about spreadsheet risk management. Now they’re coming back to the problem with robust methodologies and new software tools.

For those of you who know the frustration that comes when so-called best practices fail to live up to their flattering handle, the Pragmatist knows your pain.

The Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) has released an updated version of its GRC Capability Model, aka the Red Book. The Phoenix, Ariz.-based nonprofit describes the document as “a comprehensive guide for anyone implementing and managing a GRC system or some aspect of that system, including those involved in compliance, training, hotlines and investigations.” Business Finance talked with OCEG’s CEO, Scott Mitchell, about the Red Book’s view of the GRC universe.