Compliance monitoring and reporting

In the wake of the many financial scandals that have roiled the international corporate world in the past few years, investors have grown wary of companies that fail to disclose important information about their businesses. Management can always say that their particular company meets its minimum financial disclosure requirements; but saying it isn’t enough anymore. Another complicating factor is that many investors and analysts consider financial reports alone to be of limited use in determining a company’s prospects. The fact is that that investors want, and need, both financial and non-financial information to fairly judge your company’s performance. In this post-Enron world, transparency is critical, and a growing body of evidence indicates that companies that fall short of the transparency benchmark at best risk significant damage to management credibility; at worst they face an erosion of shareholder confidence that can, in turn, do damage to market capitalisation, credit, and liquidity. But along with negative pressures, there are also positive reasons for going transparent. Your company’s brands, market share, customer retention levels, and intellectual capital are of intense interest to investors. Companies that report more comprehensively on these important non-financial assets can often improve their valuation in the capital markets.

If this is your situation

• You lack of clear and measurable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• You need more effective means of compliance monitoring and testing
• You would like to posses a more efficient system for generating reliable data for internal and external reporting
• You current reporting systems are cumbersome and unreliable
• You must development new performance measurement processes
• You need help in designing—or reviewing your current—monitoring and testing programs
• You must create and deploy incident and enterprise compliance reporting