CAQ Video Library
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| The System of Investor Protection |
| This video introduces the members of the System of Investor Protection who make sure the financial reporting process protects investors’ interests. Learn more about how external auditors, audit committees, CFOs and internal auditors oversee the financial reporting process to give investors confidence in the financial information released by publicly traded companies. |
| The Financial Statement Audit |
| External auditors conduct audits of the financial statements released by public companies in their annual reports. This video demystifies the audit process to provide investors with an overview of how the external auditor conducts the financial statement audit to help ensure that companies’ financial statements are free of material misstatement due to error or fraud. |
| Sarbanes-Oxley, Ten Years Later |
| A group of thought leaders from business, academia, thinks tanks, media and non-profits joined CAQ Executive Director Cindy Fornelli on April 17, 2012 for an hour-long roundtable event focusing on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The discussion was held during New York Ideas, a forum that assembled leading thinkers and policy makers to explore essential election-year questions focusing on the American identify. |
| Main Street Investor Survey Interviews |
| On October 13, 2011, the CAQ sponsored an Investor Confidence Forum to spotlight the release of the 2011 Main Street Investor Survey. A series of “man on the street” interviews conducted with individual investors in September 2011 was played during the event. These interviews provide a view into individual investors’ confidence in the capital markets and their thoughts about the economy. |
| Deterring and Detecting Financial Reporting Fraud |
| CAQ Executive Director Cindy Fornelli and Governing Board member Michele Hooper discuss the CAQ’s anti-fraud initiative in “Deterring and Detecting Financial Reporting Fraud – A Platform for Action” and the findings of the CAQ’s anti-fraud report, including the conditions that lead to fraud and the themes that can mitigate those conditions. |
| The Case for Collaboration |
| In “The Case for Collaboration: Increasing Anti-Fraud Effectiveness Across the Financial Reporting Supply Chain,” Fornelli and Hooper discuss the CAQ’s anti-fraud collaborative partnership with Financial Executives International, the National Association of Corporate Directors and The Institute of Internal Auditors and discuss areas of future collaboration. |
