It’s simple… doing things right and doing things
fairly.
Corporate Governance
After the implosions of Enron, WorldCom and many
other notable corporations, the need for good
governance can’t be emphasized enough. As a
consequence, the world of governance has been
changed forever with the multitude of new
regulations from regulators, stock exchanges,
accounting bodies.
The
BIG question is, how is your company managing to
keep up with all the changes now and into the
future?
At
SCG, we provide a “second set of eyes” to
ensure you that corporate governance is proactively
managed so you can sleep at night without
worry.
As
a CEO or senior level executive, poor corporate
governance can easily tarnish your good reputation
and destroy company shareholder value.
Let
us help you evaluate and improve your organizational
performance and governance through evaluations of:
ü
Board of Directors Effectiveness
ü
Audit Committee Effectiveness
ü
Shareholder Value Effectiveness
The
benefits of good corporate governance can help
you improve the bottom line but at a minimum can
save you from unnecessary jail time.
IT
Governance
Not
only is overall corporate governance important, but
also the importance of IT governance cannot be
overstated. IT governance is not just for
geeks, but the entire corporation is
dependent on secure infrastructure protecting your
corporate know-how and proprietary information,
while having the ability to produce complete,
accurate and timely financial information for the
investing public.
We
help organizations improve their IT governance needs
to help them comply with compliance and performance
issues in order to seize opportunities of the future
and help your CIO sleep at night.
Let
us help you evaluate and improve your organizational
performance and governance through evaluations of:
ü
Overall IT Governance
ü
General Controls evaluations and system security
ü
Effective ERP implementations and evaluations of IT
application controls
Click
here
for a great article on IT corporate governance
called: How much IT compliance is enough?
Corporate Responsibility: More than just being a
“good corporate citizen”
Some people think corporate responsibility is just
following the legal laws of the land. Good corporate
ethics and practices can help maintain your brand
and your reputation. However, there are times when
following lowest cost activities can get your
reputation damaged easily as Nike did through the
use of sweatshop labor in different parts of the
world. The negative impact of Nike’s stock price and
its reputation was dramatic even though it did not
do anything illegal. Consider how much Nike could
have benefited or at least minimized damaging its
reputation by acting in a more humane manner and
improved the standard of living of these shoe
workers? Corporate responsibility is more than just
PR or lip-service; it has to have actions backing
your verbiage.
Another classic case of corporate irresponsibility
is the example of Enron Corp. Not only did Enron
cook-the-books but it actions lead the company into
bankruptcy and wiped out stock investments, pension
funds and 401ks. It also had a dramatic effect of
impacting Corporate America by legislation of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Not being a responsible company
can dramatically impact your business to the point
of bankruptcy like Enron.
Let us help you evaluate and create a corporate
responsibility program that positively impacts your
customers and your stock price..