BDO in the Boardroom is a podcast series for the board of directors and those charged with governance. Each episode features a topical discussion with board peers and subject matter experts on both trending and timeless boardroom issues – mitigating risk in an increasingly digital world, navigating your board career, financial and ESG reporting, shareholder activism and more.
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Key Takeaways: GenAI can be used to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness in financial reporting and internal controls over financial reporting. Currently, GenAI can help with tasks such as drafting financial statement disclosures, summarizing key contract terms, categorizing expense transactions, and preparing travel and expense reports. Howeve…
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Key Takeaways: Audit Committees should have a playbook when allegations of fraud arise. The Audit Committee’s response level to a particular allegation will depend on the scope of the allegation and the corporate environment. Determining when an independent investigation is necessary and how independent it needs to be is determined by the context o…
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Key Takeaways: One of the roles of a board of directors is to continually assess the company and make decisions in the best interest of sustaining value for the long-term. Decisions to change business models should be weighed against the core purpose of the organization. Significant strategic changes necessitate the board to broadly evaluate the im…
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Key Takeaways: Culture is a team sport that requires the right data for the right stakeholder (including the Board). Protecting culture is just as important as strengthening your culture. There is a measurable ROI to culture. A proxy for culture is measuring organization effectiveness. Resources: Nominating & Governance Committee Priorities for…
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Key Takeaways: While simple in structure, these new requirements have complex implications for companies, many of which may not be already gathering and reporting this level of climate data. The laws were years in the making but have now pre-empted the country-level SEC climate rules that many have been anticipating. Scope 3 reporting will be requi…
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Key Takeaways: Establishing a “safe” environment for AI isn’t just a protective stance, it is itself a strategy that accelerates innovation, builds trust, and ensures long-term success. In making the decisions to address entity- readiness to greenlight AI initiatives, boards’ due diligence includes: understanding how competitors, customers, employe…
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Key Takeaways: Using AI and predictive capability is not new but generative AI brings AI to the mainstream due to its human-like communication and ease of accessibility to companies of all sizes. For boards to properly oversee AI risk, they need to require management to establish a model risk management process along with a model risk governance fr…
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Key Takeaways: Leveraging data analytics for strategic decision-making: Use of data analytics in the boardroom to is becoming increasingly important to help directors make informed, evidence-based decisions that drive growth and efficiency. By incorporating data-driven insights, businesses can better understand their customers, optimize operations,…
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Boards need to work with management team to continue to identify and prioritize opportunities in automation to enhance all aspects of operations, product development and service delivery. Challenges in implementing automation need to be identified and incorporate into a strong change management program to ensure enterprise-wide acceptance and adopt…
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Key Takeaways: 1. Approaching embedding AI into a service delivery model requires: Identifying and prioritizing AI business processes and use cases that align with your business objectives Assessing the feasibility and potential impact of each use case Developing a detailed implementation plan that contemplates the steps, resources, and timelines r…
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Key Takeaways: Use of technological automation in the audit can yield increased efficiency, improved accuracy, consistency and quality. Complexity, data quality, lack of flexibility, resistance to change and over-reliance on technology are challenges to automating auditing procedures that need specific consideration. Auditors are intentionally and …
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Key Takeaways: Service delivery models demand that auditors demonstrate their efforts are directed principally to potential risks and anomalies and areas of higher risk. Boards that derive the most value from audits that leverage data analytics are those that have pretty specific views of what constitute outliers or anomalies for the business and t…
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Ensuring Corporate Success in Sustainability at the Cross Section of Innovation and Technology
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Key Takeaways: Building corporate sustainability is not about “being responsible for” but rather recognizing “how to work in concert with” a broader group of stakeholders to reduce friction and produce better results. Innovation in a staid industry requires: - Creation of an environment to embrace and enable change – first speak about what will rem…
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Key Takeaways: The NEED: Data governance programs exist to manage change in data assets overtime. The WHAT: Data is an intangible asset that is constantly evolving and has a host of characteristics that make it difficult to manage compared to traditional assets. THE WAKE-UP CALL: When surveyed, 95% of respondents felt data governance programs were …
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Key Takeaways: The basic tenants of succession planning require continuous focus and consensus and can provide an outline for preparation and vigilance. These include: Agreement on short- and long-term company goals Needed skills for the position - Keeping the job description of the upcoming vacancy current Keep a pipeline of candidates that span a…
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Key Takeaways: Funding for the CHIPS Act has been signed into law. This act provides tremendous opportunities for semiconductor industry organizations to expand production in the U.S. and additionally, provides many other benefits to the economy. This podcast discusses: Opportunities for national economic initiatives for organizations that can pass…
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Key Takeaways: Suppliers have become an integral part of a company’s ESG performance against targets and laws, and therefore have an outsized impact on operational and financial performance Boards should set clear expectations for including supply chain risk within Enterprise Risk Management and require detailed management action plans to address…
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Key Takeaways: Stakeholder-Centric: Ensure a communication strategy is developed around sustainability reporting that is driven by stakeholder needs Don’t neglect the passive or potential investors Depth and Frequency: Don’t just stop at the launch date plans, have a plan for targeted communications specific to multiple audiences year-round Multi-C…
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Key Takeaways: Pillar Two comes in effect for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2024 for multi-national companies with global revenue in excess of Euro 750m. Complexity will arise from both the detailed calculations involved as well as timing related to the phased-in approach by jurisdiction as to when each country will require imp…
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Key Takeaways and Tax Planning Points: Enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), corporations are now subject to a 15% minimum tax on book income of $1 billion or more. The IRA also provided $80 billion of funding for IRS – with $46 billion earmarked specifically for enforcement. Enacted as part of the 2023 Omnibus Appropriations legisl…
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Key Takeaways: The discipline of modern governance today is really in a global realm – can no longer be thought of in simply local or regional terms. Governance should be viewed as a discipline and thus, your individual board “packaging” is critical to you being identified as a serious board candidate. Board Documents are not comprised of a resume …
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Key Takeaways: Be mindful of identifying material impacts of climate risk and whether you are satisfying current disclosure requirements Don’t be lulled into complacency or the belief that mid-term elections may derail final rule-making Review carefully current financial risk disclosures in line with other information being disclosed by the company…
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Key Takeaways: As with any insurance, directors and officers need to have a clear understanding of the purpose of D&O insurance and what it is designed to cover and what is not included – e.g., deliberate fraud, criminal acts, and uninsurable fines and penalties as well as other exclusions or limitations including thresholds for triggering coverage…
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Key Takeaways: Shareholder proposal trends to anticipate continuing into 2023: Increasing shareholder proposals – made easier by prior years’ SEC regulations allowing more access for shareholders Certain commitments made by companies in previous periods (e.g., racial equity audits, DEI and other social aspects) likely to be scrutinized by sharehold…
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Key Takeaways: Data protection, which encompasses data governance, data privacy and cybersecurity, should be considered as part of the board’s oversight of risk and strategy The board’s responsibilities related to data protection include identifying director(s) or advisor(s) with the appropriate skills and experience, stating explicit accountabilit…
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Key Takeaways Flexibility is dynamic way of operating business across workplaces, spaces and time with strategic coordinated intention to achieve high levels of performance and engagement. Lead with the what (not the where): Flexibility is about organizing around the work itself and how, when and where it happens best, no longer around the workplac…
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Key Takeaways: Each change to a business represents new strategic opportunities, but those changes also present new potential risk of and to the corporate strategy. Boards need to understand how the executive team approaches risk informed decision making to assess effectiveness. Streamlining and optimizing risk management require proper structure, …
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Key Takeaways: Audit committees can ensure smooth ICFR implementation by encouraging early planning, helping secure adequate resources, being familiar with management’s process to identify risks and management’s processes and controls in place to manage those risks. Boards should be particularly focused on controls addressing areas of the business …
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Key Takeaways: Today’s organizations are being called to contribute positively as part of the greater ecosystem, which is compelling directors to embrace the role of change catalysts and “intraprenuers.” People, as our greatest assets, need board directors to oversee the creation of work environments that value employees to allow them to ‘bring the…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she and her colleague Todd Simmens, National Managing Partner of Tax Risk Management, to discuss how the board’s oversight of corporate strategy and risk management would be remiss without an understanding and consideration of evolving global and domestic tax regulations anticipated to signifi…
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What May the SEC’s Proposed Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules Mean for Those in Governance Oversight Positions?
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she and her colleague Mike Stiglianese, who serves as the Managing Director in BDO Consulting’s Technology Advisory Services Practice, discuss the SEC’s recently proposed rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident disclosure and the impacts and considerations the…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she and her colleague Dan Fuller, Managing Partner Tax ESG Strategy and Services Leader, discuss opportunities to align the board’s oversight of ESG strategy with taxation considerations to be truly impactful in corporate decisions-making in this evolving area. Key Takeaways: Where is the “T” …
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Join BDO’s Hitesh Shah, leader of our San Jose Board Roundtable series, in discussion with Raj Sisodia, Co-founder of Conscious Capitalism movement, as they discuss the importance of the board’s role in supporting conscious leadership and building a conscious business. Key Takeaways: The board’s role is critical in helping management define the pur…
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Join BDO’s Hitesh Shah, leader of our San Jose Board Roundtable series, in discussion with Raj Sisodia, Co-founder of the Conscious Capitalism movement, as he introduces the concept of Conscious Capitalism and the potential impacts of embracing the movement in your organization. Key Takeaways: Conscious Capitalism is a philosophy based on the belie…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Amanda Shpiner, Managing Director at Gasthalter & Co. LP, to discuss considerations for board communications as part of an overall governance strategy in the face of numerous disruptions impacting the business. Key Takeaways: • Boards have the responsibility to continuously …
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Key Takeaways: • Sustainability is the “maturing” of ESG factors crossing over from government regulation to voluntary corporate reporting to becoming commonplace within organizations. • Sustainability has moved across the threshold into mainstream global commerce as investors understand that issues of sustainability have financial implications and…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Jason Brooks, a Managing Director and BDO’s Compensation Consulting Practice Leader, to highlight key planning considerations for compensation committee directors as we rapidly approach the end of 2021 and enter 2022. Key Takeaways: Compensation committees are encouraged to …
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Vanessa Teitelbaum, Senior Director of Professional Practice at the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ), to discuss the critical role audit committees play in the integrity of capital markets and how transparent disclosures about their oversight practices can provide significant …
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Join BDO Tax Partner and Tax Risk Services National Leader Michael Williams as he sits down with James Egert, BDO in the U.K. partner and leader of its Tax Assurance and Risk Management practice, to discuss managing tax risk and why this topic is increasingly appearing on board agendas. James’ perspective from the more legislatively regulated U.K. …
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Patrick Gadson, Partner –Shareholder Activism and Mergers and Acquisitions at Vinson & Elkins, to discuss defense strategies for boards and management teams to consider when challenged by activist shareholders. Key Takeaways: Boards of companies (all sizes) that are underper…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Cathy Moy, BDO Chief People Officer, to discuss company culture as a business imperative and the reasoning why culture must be center stage for boards as companies reposition their businesses and focus on growth in 2021 and beyond. From Cathy’s unique vantage point, she has …
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Melissa Means, Managing Director at Pearl Meyer, to talk about how today’s board directors are navigating critical compensation questions for leaders as companies emerge from COVID and face increasing attention and scrutiny related to both financial and nonfinancial strategi…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Sarah Feingold, Co-Founder of The Fourth Floor to discuss corporate governance considerations in the start-up world and what has driven her passion for helping connect diverse individuals to the boardroom. Key Takeaways: Never too early for good governance: Can be the “rocke…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Demetrios Frangiskatos, Assurance Northeast Regional Managing Partner, to discuss the frenzy of SPAC and resulting De-SPAC transactions and in particular, considerations that board members should be thinking about if thinking of or selected to be affiliated with the acquiror…
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Join Amy Rojik, director of BDO’s Center for Governance as she shares some timely considerations for directors to consider with respect to board composition refreshment strategies. Key Takeaways Board composition, succession and refreshment planning should be treated as a priority and normal part of oversight responsibilities Refreshment is undersc…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Yelena Barychev, Corporate Governance and Securities Compliance attorney, to discuss the proliferation of voluntary disclosures being produced by public companies, the increasing attention by regulators and considerations for how boards are to respond in the best interests o…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Karen Schuler, BDO Principal and Leader within our Governance Risk and Compliance group, to discuss how boards’ oversight of data governance within their organizations is changing to meet the opportunities and risk in the rapidly evolving digital space in which organizations…
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Excerpts from What's on the Minds of Boards Ahead of Shareholder Meetings with Courteney Keatinge
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik and Courteney Keatinge, Senior Director of Glass Lewis’ Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Research, as they highlight several significant considerations from a proxy advisor’s perspective for boards and management teams to think about ahead of 2021 annual shareholder meetings. Key Takeaways A…
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Excerpts from What's on the Minds of Boards Ahead of Shareholder Meetings with Ryan Hourihan
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik and Ryan Hourihan, a principal and certified executive compensation professional at Pearl Meyer, as they highlight several key considerations for directors and management teams as they factor in compensation strategies and performance plans in the upcoming cycle and respond to shareholder questio…
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Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik and Tom Conaghan, a partner and the Co-Head of McDermott Will & Emory’s Capital Markets and Public Companies Group, as they highlight several key considerations for upcoming shareholder meetings for directors and management teams from the perspectives of institutional investors and regulators. Ke…
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