Businesses now have to meet an increasing range of regulatory requirements. These include several regulations in the fields of taxation, corporate governance and audit & accounting like Sarbanes-Oxley and equivalent national regulations in other countries, changes in international accounting standards and the capital requirements for financial services companies etc.

Businesses have to face the various stakeholders for greater transparency and stronger corporate governance, and at the same time need to safeguard privacy and ensure information security. The managements of corporates are also working out how best they can obtain some commercial return on this substantial investment in compliance costs and management time.

SMD's approach to risk management balances short-term compliance with longer term integration into business systems to ensure worth-while,sustainable process.

We advise in the following areas of Risk Management:

• Corporate Governance and Regulatory Risk
  


• Financial Risk
  


• Information Risk
  


• Operations Risk
  


• Meeting New Accounting Standards