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Enron-driven reforms are unraveling

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Student Gets Exam Credit for Expletive

A British student received partial credit on a high school exam paper for writing only a two-word expletive. [more]

Church Offers Drive-in Weddings

At a car rally later this month, the Church of Sweden will offer drive-in wedding ceremonies that last a mere seven minutes. [more]

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Risk Management Alerts

Background Checks Ascend to the C-Suite

Companies are often hesitant to perform background checks on C-level employees and candidates -- at their own risk, according to Ken Springer, Corporate Resolutions president and founder and a former FBI agent. He says, "Comprehensive background investigations minimize financial and reputational risk and have become a necessary and important component of due diligence."

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ERM Still a Work in Progress at Life Insurance Companies

Financial services providers have long been the vanguard of enterprise risk management (ERM), but even these early adopters still haven't finished tweaking their programs. [more]

Risk-Adjusted Performance: A Primer

CFOs can play a key role in developing a realistic, risk-aware performance management strategy to help their organization neutralize threats, exploit opportunities, and avoid nasty surprises. [more]

Characteristics of SOX Compliance Leaders

The primary insight of a new KPMG report on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance progress is that the majority of companies have shifted from a "get it done" compliance mentality to a "make it business as usual. [more]

A Goldmine of Risk Prevention Data

Here's a boon for risk managers: commercial and property insurance giant FM Global has decided to offer thousands of pages of its property loss prevention engineering guidelines for free at its Web site. [more]

Rightsizing the Risks Around Employee Rewards

The risks associated with employee compensation and benefits programs are multitudinous and can be mission-threatening, as the options backdating scandal revealed. [more]

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