The SEC has filed its first-ever enforcement action involving rating symbol deficiencies, hitting Moody’s Investors Service with $16.25 million in penalties to settle charges involving internal ...

On August 28, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced two settlements with a rating agency (the “Company”) over allegations that it failed to maintain adequate internal controls ...

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations grew out of a private sector initiative known as the Treadway Commission in 1987. COSO was tasked to develop and explain an integrated framework for the ...

The following is a written comment submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with its proposed rule modifying the standards for internal controls under Section 404 of ...

Internal controls encompass all the methods and procedures that an organization adopts to protect its facilities, assets and property. In a broad sense, internal controls make it possible for an ...

Many leaders of organizations treat internal controls as a tedious task that sits at the bottom of their to-do list, and, because just about no one ever gets to the bottom of their to-do list, often ...