BoardroomDirect: Update on current board issues - November 2012

Corporate Governance Series 11/09/2012 by Center for Board Governance

This issue of BoardroomDirect® from PwC includes the release of the PwC book Directors and IT - What Works Best™. That book offers an IT Oversight Framework for directors designed to bridge the IT confidence gap.

The newsletter also focuses on the board oversight risks related to income tax accounting. Ken Kuykendall, PwC's Global Tax Accounting Services Leader, and Jennifer Spang, a partner in PwC's National Quality Organization, offer their insights into the related myriad issues.

Other items featured this month include:

  1. board oversight risks related to income tax accounting
  2. Nasdaq's and New York Stock Exchange's new listing standards for compensation committees
  3. Institutional Shareholder Services' proposed recommendation policy changes for the 2013 proxy season
  4. a group of seven organizations' release of a new evaluation tool for external auditors