Internal Controls
Optimizing Controls Through Improved Efficiency
December 6 and 7, 2011 · Toronto, Ontario
Event Overview
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Hear tried and tested approaches from experienced leaders in the field
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- Canada Post Corporation
- Sunera LLC
- Osgoode Hall Law School
- Meridian Compensation Partners
- Bennett Jones LLP
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- Kansas State University
- Bell Aliant Inc.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Grant Thornton LLP
- Deloitte
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Take Proactive Steps to Meet the Growing Demands of the Controls Function
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- Assessing a tumultuous 2011 and impacts on corporate governance
- Learn how Canada Post's audit team helped improve their internal controls financial reports
- Identify risks and mitigation strategies in executive compensation
- Hear how Siemens Canada optimizes controls with their leading whistleblower program
- Learn anti-corruption compliance strategies from the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention advisor for Canada
- Prepare for the growing regulatory demands on risk
- Sustain a robust controls of IT even through emerging risks and change
- Gain practical insights into continuous controls monitoring best practices
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With regulatory demands on risk and controls growing both in Canada and abroad, finding internal efficiencies between controls, risk and compliance is of more importance than ever. Discovering what integration looks like in practice is key to being more responsive to the emerging demands of the controls function. Learning how to avoid duplication in efforts and streamline the controls function is hands down the chief challenge for the controls function today. Further, you need to keep abreast of best practices in internal controls financial reporting; emerging risks in compensation, IT, and operations; and continuous controls monitoring.
In response to your needs, INFONEX's Internal Controls returns to Toronto with an updated program that examines the latest regulatory updates, trends in internal controls, and case studies of companies that are leading the way in best practices. Since 2004, Infonex's Internal Controls events have been bringing together thought-leaders in internal controls to address your latest concerns. Attend this event and you will walk away with the knowledge you need for the upcoming year.
Learn how to ensure that disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting are designed effectively and are well-documented. Get tips for developing a whistleblower policy and integrating it with your compliance program. Examine the effectiveness of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and get strategies to help you realize the benefits of continuous controls monitoring. Identify areas of controls that should be on your radar, and an enterprise approach to dealing with them.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear case studies and lessons learned from your peers, as well as informative sessions from industry leaders. Over 300 organizations across Canada have already taken advantage of our internal controls conferences -- don't miss your chance. Register today!
Who Should Attend This Event
- Chief Financial Officers
- Vice-Presidents of Finance
- Directors and Managers of Internal Audit
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- Accountants
- Controllers
- Directors, Managers, and Analysts of Financial Compliance
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