While the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed many non-profit organisations to the brink of survival, it has also, however, resulted in a renewed focus on good governance...
It is the professional duty of business leaders to protect whistle-blowers. The C-suite of any organisation ultimately has a responsibility to make sure they protect the company's bottom line...
Zaakir Mohamed 21 Apr 2021
Companies should be actively encouraging employees to blow the whistle on corporate issues, ethics or concerning behaviour, without fear of risk or harassment, because an effective whistle-blowing programme is of immense value to the business...
Manhattan prosecutors probing Trump's real estate business for possible insurance and tax fraud have stepped up witness interviews...
Jason Szep, Joseph Tanfani and Peter Eisler 9 Feb 2021
Combatting corruption in South Africa depends on three pillars: ending the bipolar myth of good private sector/bad public sector, the establishment of an unstoppable citizens' movement and for directors to cross their own intellectual Rubicon and serve companies not shareholders...
Issued by Henley Business School 8 Sep 2020
Considering the high profile scandals that have dominated news headlines in the last few years, from VBS Mutual Bank to Eskom, it does not seem unreasonable to say that South Africa may have a corporate fraud problem...
Poor collaboration at the right level, the lack of accountability and no proactive participation were identified as some of the stumbling blocks in the fight against malfeasance in the healthcare industry...
The collapse of Steinhoff International, the multi-billion dollar global business group, has been rightly described as the biggest corporate scandal in South African history...
Mills Soko 16 Nov 2018
The imminent arrival of two Microsoft Azure data centres on local shores means organisations across industry sectors are re-evaluating their availability strategies...
Kate Mollett 11 Jun 2018
South Africa is one of the first countries on the continent to adopt XBRL for qualifying reporting entities submitting their annual financial statements...
Statistics show that instances of theft by employees are becoming increasingly severe following a sharp rise in employee fraud in recent years, says Anton Meyer, Executive Head: Financial Lines at SHA...
Two of the directors of Steinhoff say former CEO Markus Jooste "misled" the furniture retailer's board...
A US court on Wednesday sentenced former Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt to seven years in prison for his role in the German automaker's "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal...
Douglas Gillison 8 Dec 2017
Businesses concentrate on providing external security but often the threat comes from within an organisation where staff perpetrate fraud...
Business giants like Raymond Ackerman and Christo Wiese may have been able to rely on gut feel, but business leaders today need to fine tune this with financial data...
Ethical conduct in the workplace is of the utmost importance...
PARMA, ITALY: French cheese maker Lactalis took control of Italy's Parmalat at a shareholder meeting on Tuesday, 28 June 2011, in a move aimed at creating the world's biggest dairy company after a corporate battle.