Podcasts and videos

10Minutes on trust and transparency
Recent economic crises, combined with greater reliance on outside agencies, are driving the need for increased transparency. Steve Del Vecchio discusses the steps companies are taking in an effort to restore, sustain and enhance trust in their businesses — and how those efforts are giving companies a leg up on the competition.

10Minutes on managing diversity
This podcast, hosted by John Verderese and Reggie Butler, provides PwC's insights on how forward-thinking leaders must make diversity a business imperative and take steps at the institutional level to create an environment of equal access and opportunity. The benefits for such investment are real, and they touch every area of the business by potentially resulting in greater agility, better market insight, stronger customer and community loyalty, innovation, and improved employee recruitment and retention.

10Minutes on rethinking pivotal talent
Companies can no longer rely on traditional practices and reactive cost cutting measures. To survive and succeed through this economic downturn, boardrooms need to identify what their business and employees should to be doing differently to ensure they are in a strong and agile position for the future.

10Minutes on data and identity theft
In this podcast, Data and Identity Theft professionals from PwC's managing Security practice, Mark Lobel, Fred Rica, and Mike Cunning, discuss key risk indicators of Data and Identity Theft vulnerability and explain why having strong data safeguards in place can help secure a company's reputation, competitiveness, and financial well-being.

1st Q 2010 Podcasts:

Setting Standard Update with Greg McGahan, Partner

Emerging Issues for the first quarter with Tom Barbieri, Accounting Consulting Partner

Tax Matters for the first quarter, Ed Abahoonie, Partner

SEC Update with Beth Paul, Partner

IFRS update with John Barry, US IFRS Leader

4th Q 2009 Podcasts:

FASB update with Jan Hauser, Partner

Relevant issues going into year-end with Debbie O'Connell, Partner, and Jennifer Spang, Partner

XBRL update with David Sharpe, US XBRL leader

Corporate governance update with John Barry, US Corporate Governance leader

Forensics' corporate intelligence (November, 2009)

Key findings of the Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey^™ (October,2009)

Bridge loans with warrants (July, 2009)

Key findings of the Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey^TM (June, 2009)

Trends in investment performance (June, 2009)

International tax (May, 2009)

Asset managers: Privacy regulation (MA 201) and governance (May, 2009)

Distressed debt in private equity (March, 2009)

Sustainable cost management (February, 2009)

Fund of funds valuation (February, 2009)

Investment company financial reporting considerations resulting from the current market environment (December, 2008)

New FASB disclosure standards related to derivatives: FASB Statement No. 161 & FASB Staff Position 133-1 and 45-4 (October, 2008)

Valuation issues impacting investment management entities (September, 2008)

IFRS and investment funds: The wave of the future?

Trust and Transparency
Recent economic crises, combined with greater reliance on outside agencies, are driving the need for increased transparency. Steve Del Vecchio discusses the steps companies are taking in an effort to restore, sustain and enhance trust in their businesses — and how those efforts are giving companies a leg up on the competition.

Combating corruption and the FCPA
This PwC podcast offers a discussion of the FCPA and how greater enforcement of the Act is impacting the business strategy of large multinational businesses.

Straight talk: Looking at health system disaster preparedness
In this podcast, Modern Healthcare and PwC present "Straight talk," about the steps health executives should take to ensure an effective response to a disaster.

Behind the numbers: Medical Cost trends for 2009
To those two age-old certainties, death and taxes, we can now add a third, rising healthcare costs – or can we?

HealthCast 2020: Creating a sustainable future
In this podcast, PwC discusses trends in healthcare and transferable lessons learned from around the world.

Health system disaster preparedness
In this podcast, PwC health industry leaders, Dr. David Levy and Dr. Peach Taylor discuss how to develop an integrated approach to health system disaster preparedness.

Pharma 2020 podcast: The vision: Which path will you take?
The Pharma 2020 report highlights a number of issues that will have a major bearing on the industry over the next 13 years. Here you can listen to Simon Friend, global pharmaceutical and life sciences leader and Steve Arlington, global pharmaceutical and life sciences advisory services leader discuss some of the key highlights of this Pharma 2020 podcast.

Business continuity management
Phil Samson discusses the importance of a business continuity strategy and how an organization can prepare all aspects of the business - people, processes and technology - to withstand an unexpected business disruption.

Combating corruption and the FCPA
This PwC podcast offers a discussion of the FCPA and how greater enforcement of the Act is impacting the business strategy of large multinational businesses.

Becoming a risk resilient organization - the 5 continuous stages
The alignment of risk and performance has become a business imperative. Joe Atkinson, Leader of PwC's US Risk practice, discusses the 5 stages for truly integrating risk and performance to achieve risk resilience in your organization.

Technology executive connections

Going green: sustainable growth strategies

Exploiting intellectual property in a complex world

Successful strategies for talent management