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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2018-08, Not-For-Profit Entities (Topic 958): Clarifying the Scope and Accounting Guidance for Contributions Received and Contributions Made (Subtopic 958-605), in part, to eliminate the diversity in practice in recognizing grants received from governmental sources.

With the exception of the last bulleted item about the proposed federal Data Protection Agency, this month’s edition of Cyber Roundup soberly sets out various cybercrimes that are morphing into even more destructive acts, resulting in ever-expanding harm to businesses and individuals.

Unfortunately, fraud is an all-to-common occurrence and no industry is immune. Intentional deception to realize unlawful gains are often perpetrated by an organization’s own management or employees, with or without the assistance of outside parties.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), through the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), has issued its 2020 Examination Priorities.

Healthy skepticism can help avoid falling for phishing schemes and way-out-there data equipment/systems scams; testing can help ensure that the data system actually works and supports your company’s stated policies and procedures; and, knowledge allows for expanding data enhancements and securing the necessary and appropriate hardware, the software and the data.