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Economic Crisis – Auditors Evolving Role IAA Charlotte March 17 2010. Michael P. Cangemi CPA, CISA Former CAE - CEO Etienne Aigner & FEI Advisory Board Member – FASB, COSO.
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Economic Crisis –Auditors Evolving RoleIAA Charlotte March 17 2010 Michael P. Cangemi CPA, CISA Former CAE - CEO Etienne Aigner & FEI Advisory Board Member – FASB, COSO Management, IT, Financial Governance 1 Cangemi Company, LLC
Business Career • Merrill Lynch/Blair&Co – High School&College • Ernst & Young – CPA – Dir IT Audit • Phelps Dodge – CAE – VP - CIO • Professional work – IS Control Journal (87-07) & Books - Managing the Audit (Wiley) • BDO Seidman Ptr. IT Audit – IA Services • CFO/COO to CEO Etienne Aigner, Inc. 91-04 • CEO Financial Executives Intl 07-08 • Advisory Boards – FASB; Pace Univ.; private companies; Rutgers CA/CM – fmr COSO Management, IT, Financial Governance 2 Cangemi Company, LLC
Leverage infused Credit Crisis • Lehman Brothers – wiped out • Bear, Merrill, Wachovia – merged • 200+ banks taken over by FDIC • 32-1 leverage – more on this risk later • AIG- regulated company – Gov take over • GM- non -regulated – Gov take over • " Greenspan said, "We are in the middle of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami."
Today’s Goals: Managements Prospective • Crisis – impact on your business • Recession puts pressure on costs – even audit and recently IT spending; efficiencies from IT have been #1 cost reduction driver • What else auditors should be doing! • Fraud risk always present: rises in downturns – but always present!
Credit Crisis - Primer • Recent History • What caused this Credit Crisis • Easy Monetary Policy And • A simple financial instrument
Sub-Prime Malfeasance • A mortgage was a safe loan • Securitizations -Packaged into Mortgage Backed Bonds – Fee income for IB • Packages of Mort-Backed Bonds into Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) • Good collateral – until no money down, interest only, credit scores don’t matter • House prices declined = crash!!!
Roots of a problem Community Reinvestment Act Born in the Carter Administration Praised by Bush- Clinton- Bush Ordered banks to extend loans to minorities; lead to more loans Fannie & Freddie offered to securitize the loans – Congress expanding home ownership!!!
If not Bad Guys – Fee Income is gone Management, IT, Financial Governance 8 Cangemi Company, LLC
Blame game • Lax Credit criteria – system of moving risk to others – after taking fees • Unregulated mortgage brokers • Add 2% and 20% --- leverage • Lack of adequate regulation –CDO’s • Soft regulation on Short selling • Rating Agencies – big issues!!
Fair Value Accounting • Not the problem – always used LCM • FASB-IASB issued guidance in reaction • SEC reviewed Fair Value Accounting Jan 09 • FASB issued guidance on valuations • 157e Determine when a market is Not Active • 115a Other than Temporary Impairment BIGGER ISSUE is sovereignty and regulatory oversight of accounting under IFRS
Wall Street & Derivatives- CDOs What are credit default swaps – insurance – maybe or bets – shorts and longs –weak regulation (Bucket Shops – Jesse Livermore) New Regulations coming –BIG Changes mandate oversight over the credit default swaps market& more regulation of short sales
New Regulations – • Federal reserve gains regulatory power • over “too big to fail” institutions • Financial Services Oversight Council • Addresses gaps in regulation • Consumer Financial Protection Agency • new rules over credit cards, mortgages and other consumer products
Three selected Mega Trends • Sever recession – credit contraction • Globalization - Competition • Rise of Elephant & Dragon; Brazil etc. • Expansion of Global Capital Markets - Global Shift: • 2003 US was 44% - 2007 33% • Audit costs basically doubled – but recently rationalization of SOX costs
What is in our post crisis future? A slow economy – recession or “Great” Initially major impact from drop in capital markets - losses of 401K • Market has come back – avoided crash Management Perspective -much higher unemployment Lower consumer spending – lower USA - GDP
New Playing Field • Eco Crisis leads to BIG changes – • GM Bond holders lose to employees • Gov takes equity and management decisions • Fed - systemic risk regulator; • SEC-PCAOB? • New consumer regulator
What will be the “New Normal” High levels of Government Debt Very large Government – new regulations Inflation – around the corner Higher taxes & Savings= lower consumer spending –on goods and services Continued difficult business environment What are you changing? Management, IT, Financial Governance 18 Cangemi Company, LLC
React to the New Normal • US will be less of an economic power • Maybe US $ replaced by a basket • More outsourcing – to lower cost countries – accounting, audit & IT • Difficult Business environment – should lead to innovation – lots of changes
New Normal – Audit –IT Audit • Get in the flow with management • My Book: Periodic Audit Mgt Change • Innovate/Reinvent - Respond • Larger focus on formal ERM - GRC • To Do- Lower cost – higher imagination • COSO Continuous Audit & Monitoring • Discuss further greater coverage lower cost! • Outsourcing audit – Global
ERM - • Banks measure credit risks – programs based on underlying financial strength ratings and probabilities • In non-financial there are many different business risks – boards address on an ongoing basis; not as obvious • All subject to management override
Audit Involvement in ERM • Basically a good thing – to a degree • BUT – What is ERM and note it works until management overrides • Leman; Merrill; Bear – had risk models • Trying to apply Fin Company risk model My advice: • Set your Audit Charter realistically
Leverage – 1929 in a new form • 32 to 1 – are you kidding!! Say you raise $10,000,000 • Now investing $320,000,000 - OPM • Earn 2% Fee = $6.4 M vs. $10 M raised Did IA have a risk comment – ERM ?? Buffet’s comments in DC : 2% & 20% rule
COSO - ERM • page 3 -“ERM enables management to effective deal with uncertainty.” • Page 5 - Achievements of strategic objectives and operations, however, is subject to external events not always within the entity’s control • Page 13 - All entities face uncertainty the challenge is for management - how much uncertainty is it prepared to accept? Question – how do you determine how much of an unknown you are prepared to accept.
IA Adding Value ROI Challenges • Not producing products or revenues!! • How do you contribute more to the business? • Set IA Charter High – Improve control; E&E of ops and positive deliverables • IA – People, Procedures – Reports • Take advantage of automation
IA Adding Value – ROI • Use of Technology – • different solutions by sizes of company • Continue to expand use of automation for administration and audit testing • Use leverage – recommend built in CM controls testing to business units; help them implement
COSO Cube • Recognized as the major framework for evaluating internal control • Opportunity to build in controls; save money; increase coverage; find errors; recover $$$
New Normal for Audit - Monitoring - Make Audit efficient A means to control efficiency and effectiveness. “Management should be able to rely on self-assessment and, more generally, the monitoring component of internal control, provided the monitoring component is properly designed and operates effectively” (PCAOB, AS5, P. 5)
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New Normal - Oversight’s continuous auditing solution • built-in report and dashboard features that present continuous risk reports with color-coded risk ratings (i.e., red, yellow, and green) for all key control objectives. • threshold-oriented reports automatically alert audit professionals
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New Normal -Lower Audit Costs Costs - SOX caused audit cost to increase Now is the time to rationalize, make the control structure more efficient CCM is an answer to expanded ERM EDPACS Article – case studies Fraud – everyone now tuned in to possible fraud – thanks to Bernie et al – CCM – it will continue!!!
Financial Scandals & Markets • Financial Scandals are not a new phenomena Management, IT, Financial Governance 36 Cangemi Company, LLC
Recent Financial Market Crises • 1980s Saving & Loan Bailout • 1987 Market drop and rapid recovery • 1998 Long-Term Capital failure & fallout • 9-11-2001 – terrorist attacks • 2001-02 - accounting scandals and bankruptcy's –some caused by bad guys • 2007-08 sub-prime induced dislocation-some again caused by bad guys
Discovery of America – New Land Schemes Management, IT, Financial Governance 38 Cangemi Company, LLC
Madness of Crowds • The Tulip Bulbs Bubble 1600’s – emotional market ?? • South Seas & Mississippi Companies – UK investors bet on America • 1800-1900 Rail Roads Bubble • 1990’s Internet Bubble • 2000’s corporate frauds leads to SOX! Management, IT, Financial Governance 39 Cangemi Company, LLC
Bad Guys circa 2009 - Global • SociétéGénérale – one trader $7.2 billion loss • Bernie Madoff – never bought a security • Texas financier R. Allen Stanford -sold CDs in US kept the cash –Global Fraud! • Venezuela "seized a failed bank controlled by Stanford after a run on deposits” • UBS Off Shore Accounts Investigation
Closing Thoughts Audit is a business – must be efficient Business run on cash Try for cash recoveries Lower expenses Careful expanded focus on GRC- ERM Be creative – innovate – high imagination low cost solutions – use automation Think Globally Management, IT, Financial Governance 41 Cangemi Company, LLC
Questions? Management, IT, Financial Governance 42 Cangemi Company, LLC
Cangemi Company LLC • Senior Advisor & Board Member • Consulting –Financial, Strategic & Governance , Internal Audit • Media -speaking; teaching • Book -Managing the Audit Function; available at Amazon, Wiley and other book sellers • mpcangemi@msn.com Management, IT, Financial Governance 43 Cangemi Company, LLC