Podcasts by BDO in the Boardroom

How Technology Enablement Can Magnify A Positive Impact on Audit Quality from 2023-12-05T21:31:56

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 accessibili...
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How to Prompt Management to Get the Most Out of Data Analytics from 2023-11-15T20:18:26

Key Takeaways:

• Leveraging data analytics for strategic decision-making: Use of data analytics in the boardroom to is becoming increasingly important to help directors...
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Automation: How to Unlock Corporate Value from 2023-10-26T15:51:58

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.

AI’s Impact on the Evaluation of Audit Risk from 2023-10-17T15:56:11

Key Takeaways:

1. Approaching embedding AI into a service delivery model requires:

• Identifying and prioritizing AI business processes and use cases that align ...
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Automating the Annual Audit from 2023-10-02T19:02:39

Key Takeaways:

• Use of technological automation in the audit can yield increased efficiency, improved accuracy, consistency and quality.
• Complexity, data qual...
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Applying Data Analytics – Benefits and Challenges for the Annual Audit from 2023-09-28T18:21

Key Takeaways:

• Service delivery models demand that auditors demonstrate their efforts are directed principally to potential risks and anomalies and areas of higher ri...
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Ensuring Corporate Success in Sustainability at the Cross Section of Innovation and Technology from 2023-08-03T19:48:23

Key Takeaways:

• Building corporate sustainability is not about “being responsible for” but rather recognizing “how to work in concert with” a broader group of stakehol...
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What is Data Governance and Why is it Critical for your Organization? from 2023-07-27T19:46:42

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 ev...
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Succession Planning from the Activist Perspective from 2023-07-18T12:33:47

Key Takeaways:

The basic tenants of succession planning require continuous focus and consensus and can provide an outline for preparation and vigilance. These include:

How Will the Chips for America Act Impact the U.S. Economy? from 2023-07-05T14:18:03

Key Takeaways:

Funding for the CHIPS Act has been signed into law. This act provides tremendous opportunities for semiconductor industry organizations to expand production...

ESG Considerations for Supply Chain Management from 2023-06-05T12:19:22

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 ...

Driving Stakeholder Interest and Engagement With Your Sustainability Reporting from 2023-05-09T15:13:23

Key Takeaways:

• Stakeholder-Centric:

• Ensure a communication strategy is developed around sustainability reporting that is driven by stakeholder needs...
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BEPS 2.0: What Should the Board Know About Global Tax Reform and the Two Pillar Program? from 2023-04-27T13:26:51

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 Eu...
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The Current State of Congress and Anticipated Tax Legislative Activity from 2023-03-29T13:12:16

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 bi...
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Prepping Yourself for Successful Board Candidacy from 2023-03-15T14:49:07

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.
• Governan...
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What We Know (and Don’t Know) About the SEC’s Proposed Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures from 2022-12-07T14:31:52

Key Takeaways:

• Be mindful of identifying material impacts of climate risk and whether you are satisfying current disclosure requirements
• Don’t be lulled into ...
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Insuring the Board – Unpacking the Intersection of D&O Coverage With Other Considerations from 2022-11-30T21:14:04

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 a...
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Proxy Preview 2023 from 2022-11-22T15:37:34

Key Takeaways:

Shareholder proposal trends to anticipate continuing into 2023:

• Increasing shareholder proposals – made easier by prior years’ SEC regulations ...
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The Board’s Role in Data Protection from 2022-11-03T17:48:56

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 s...
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Does Your Board Comprehend the New Reality of Work? from 2022-09-22T12:38:55

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 engage...
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Enterprise Risk Management for Today’s Board of Directors from 2022-08-25T16:03:19

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. B...
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The Board’s Role in ICFR Oversight from 2022-08-10T17:42:24

Key Takeaways:

• Audit committees can ensure smooth ICFR implementation by encouraging early planning, helping secure adequate resources, being familiar with management...
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Experiential Needs of Today’s Boardroom from 2022-07-20T12:20:46

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 ...
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Weighing Anticipated Tax Regulatory Impacts on Corporate Business Strategy from 2022-07-11T13:22:13

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she and her colleague Listen

What May the SEC’s Proposed Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules Mean for Those in Governance Oversight Positions? from 2022-06-23T04:00:07

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she and her colleague Listen

Navigating the Intersection of Tax and ESG from 2022-06-02T16:16:13

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she and her colleague Listen

The Board’s Role in Conscious Capitalism from 2022-05-26T16:59:25

Join BDO’s Hitesh Shah, leader of our San Jose Board Roundtable series, in discussion with Raj Sisodia, Co-founder ...

Conscious Capitalism 101 from 2022-05-26T16:20:40

Join BDO’s Hitesh Shah, leader of our San Jose Board Roundtable series, in discussion with Listen

Communications as a Governance Strategy from 2022-03-15T15:49:51

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Listen

Sustainability: Taking Priority in Corporate Strategy and Reporting from 2022-03-03T14:09:52

Key Takeaways:

• Sustainability is the “maturing” of ESG factors crossing over from government regulation to voluntary corporate reporting to becoming commonplace within o...

2022 Compensation Committee Planning Points from 2022-01-06T16:24:58

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Listen

Audit Committee Proxy Disclosures –Vital to Investor Protection from 2021-12-02T19:03:38

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Listen

The Case for Addressing Tax Risk from 2021-11-05T19:34:01

Join BDO Tax Partner and Tax Risk Services National Leader Michael Williams as he sits dow...

Shareholder Activism: Setting the Stage for Proactive Defense from 2021-09-02T15:17:47

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Patrick Gadson, Pa...

The Corporate Culture Imperative Through A Leadership Lens from 2021-08-17T15:32:28

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Cathy Moy, BDO Chi...

Today’s Compensation Committee: Impacts, Trends and Informed Decision-Making from 2021-07-14T11:00:05

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Listen

Where to Aim Your Arrow – Identifying Your Fit with a Start Up Board from 2021-06-29T14:06:56

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Listen

Riding Out the SPAC/DE-SPAC Wave – What Directors Need to Know from 2021-06-17T13:11:25

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Listen

Board Refreshment Process from 2021-06-02T04:00

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.

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The Proliferation of Voluntary Disclosure – How Is Your Board Responding? from 2021-05-10T04:00

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 dis...

Data Governance in the Digital Transformation Age from 2021-04-26T04:00

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’ oversig...

Excerpts from What's on the Minds of Boards Ahead of Shareholder Meetings with Tom Conaghan from 2021-04-13T04:00

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 sev...

Excerpts from What's on the Minds of Boards Ahead of Shareholder Meetings with Ryan Hourihan from 2021-04-13T04:00

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...

Excerpts from What's on the Minds of Boards Ahead of Shareholder Meetings with Courteney Keatinge from 2021-04-13T04:00

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...

Giving Voice to Values in the Boardroom from 2021-03-18T04:00

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Cynthia Clark, Executive Director of the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Governance and independent board member, to disc...

Board Dialogue and Action Around ESG from 2021-02-18T05:00

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Board of Director Gloria Cordes Larson, to share thoughts on top of mind discussion points for boards on their companie...

Corporate Tax Reform: What May Be Forthcoming from the Biden Administration from 2021-02-03T05:00

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she discusses what may be in store for corporate tax reform under President Biden’s administration with Todd Simmens, one of BDO’s Nationa...

Continuing to Build Trust Via Audit Quality from 2021-01-21T05:00

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she discusses drivers of audit quality underlying high quality financial reporting that audit committees, management and users of financia...

The Expanding Landscape of Compensation Committees from 2021-01-13T13:13:37

Join BDO's Terry Adamson as he sits down with Listen

The Board’s Engagement in 10A Investigations from 2021-01-06T15:28:16

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she discusses the challenges and considerations boards face in navigating a SEC 10A investigation with Listen

Minisode: Top Tech Tips to Counter Hacks from 2020-12-18T13:19:10

To put a damper on hacker activities as we all continue to get comfortable in working remotely, some common sense advice from seasoned tech executive and public company board member Listen

Turning the Board’s Focus to the “S” in ESG from 2020-12-18T13:12:02

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she discusses why and how boards are turning their focus to the “S” in ESG with Listen

Diversity in Action – Making DE&I Initiatives Successful from 2020-12-09T20:57:42

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Trish Oelrich, season...

How Directors Can Apply the Consumer Lens to Improve Governance Oversight and Positively Impact Strategy from 2020-12-03T21:07:05

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she discusses transformative impacts on corporate governance within the consumer products and retail industries with Listen

SPACS – Accounting and Reporting Considerations for Boards and Audit Committees from 2020-11-12T15:16:09

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik and Paula Hamric and Listen

ESG: A Catalyst for Strategic Boardroom Conversations from 2020-10-21T14:45:37

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she sits down with Lara Lee, Fortune 50 executive and now seasoned independent board member, to discuss how boards can reframe ESG by taki...

The Shift from Management to the Board from 2020-10-14T16:17:22

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she discusses the significant transition senior management undergoes when leaving the C-suite and stepping into the boardroom with Cindy F...

Small-Cap Boards – What Directors Need to (and Likely Don’t) Know from 2020-10-07T14:07:22

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as she discusses the ins and outs of small- cap corporate governance and the important role of the board with Listen

Overcoming Hurdles to Board Service from 2020-09-30T12:44:20

Join BDO's Center for Corporate Governance Amy Rojik as sits down with Sheila Ronning, CEO and ...

How Board Member Involvement Impacts Tax Risk from 2020-09-23T20:09:27

Join BDO's Dan Newton in discussion with Listen

The 21st Century Boardroom Has a Diverse Set of Responsibilities from 2020-09-23T20:03:38

Join BDO in discussion with GavinListen

Clarity About Boards You Want to Serve and What You Can Provide from 2020-09-16T18:43:50

Join BDO in discussion with Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO of Puppet and Board of Director for Forrest...

Value Proposition of the Private Company Board from 2020-09-09T15:23:04

Join BDO in discussion with Don Springer and Listen

Invest in the Preparation for Board Service from 2020-09-02T04:00

Join BDO in discussion with Jessica Denecour, Board of Director for MobileIron (MOBL...

Driving Audit Quality - PCAOB Engagement with Audit Committees and Investors from 2020-08-26T04:00

Join BDO in discussion with Erin Dwyer, Deputy Director & Stakeholder Liaison at Public Compan...

CAQ Audit Quality Drivers and the Future of Audit Quality from 2020-08-19T04:00

Join BDO in discussion with Julie Bell Lindsay, Executive Director of The Center For Audit...

The Journey to the Boardroom Takes Persistence and Resilience from 2020-08-19T04:00

Join BDO in discussion with Mercedes De Luca, Chief Information Officer at Pebble Beach Resort...

Getting Women in the Boardroom from 2020-08-11T18:18:19

Join BDO in discussion with Coco Brown, Founder and CEO of the Athena Alliance.

Key Takeaways

• The rise of the feminine architype – roles that women have histori...
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Identify Your Boardroom Superpowers from 2020-08-11T16:00

Join BDO in discussion with Julie Cullivan, Chief Technology and People Officer, ForeScout Tech...

Proactive Investment in Being a Good Board Member from 2020-08-11T16:00

Join BDO in discussion with Christine Heckart, CEO of Scalyr and Board of Director for 6sens...

Be Board Ready from 2020-08-11T16:00

Join BDO in discussion with Betsy Atkins, three-time CEO and serio entrepreneur, board of director of numerou...

Quest for a Board Seat from 2020-08-11T16:00

Join BDO in discussion with Bob Tirva, Audit Committee Chair of Resonant and CFO of Sonim Technologi...

Advocating for Diversity and Mentorship in the Boardroom from 2020-08-11T16:00

Join BDO in discussion with Alexa King, Board of Directors at Vocera Communications and E...