Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper October 16, 2023 The Regulators Are Optimising Their Use of Data. Are You? Can financial institutions manage effectively in a world where issues and breaches are known to regulators before the chief compliance officer or anyone else in the organisation even learns about them? Blogs April 4, 2022 Preparing for an IPO? Make Sure Transformation Includes Setting a People Strategy Amid the many demands of preparing for and undertaking an initial public offering (IPO), don’t forget your people.Organisations contemplating a state of public company readiness must undergo a complex transformation process that impacts all business functions. Upgrading technology, improving financial reporting processes, and implementing governance, risk and compliance capabilities are all… Whitepaper March 23, 2020 Achieving High Performance in Internal Audit: How valuable is internal audit to your organisation? Over the past decade, the Institute of Internal Auditors-Australia and Protiviti have published a series of research papers documenting key trends and issues facing the internal audit profession in Australia. Our research has consistently shown that organisations are expecting internal auditors to “add value” to the organisations they serve. Yet, it is also clear from our research, that this… Blogs July 6, 2022 Demystifying Digital Transformation in Finance Digital transformation in finance has been on the docket for years. So, why do organisations still struggle? The status quo is filled with manual, spreadsheet-driven workflows and fractured application ecosystems that may have been caused by failed attempts at digital transformation — and significant investments alone will not guarantee success. These issues have led to reduced data integrity… Blogs January 31, 2024 Capabilities, limitations of Microsoft’s native SoD tool Segregation of duties (SoD) is a well-known term among auditors and anyone who has ever been audited. SoD is the understanding that no user should have access to two conflicting business functions that would allow a user to commit fraud or error (e.g., the ability to create a vendor record, then process a payment to that vendor). The idea can be intimidating and overwhelming to those who do not… Blogs January 31, 2024 Navigating the GenAI course with Microsoft Copilot Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a hot topic these days, and not just in the IT world. The statistics indicate off-the-charts interest in GenAI’s capabilities, with AI spending predicted to more than double to $300 billion by 2026. Organisations are gearing up, determining how to best incorporate GenAI to significantly enhance their customer relations, revenue growth, cost… Whitepaper October 10, 2023 Success With Generative AI Requires Balancing Risk With Reward When ChatGPT launched in November 2022, it took just two months to garner a record 100 million users and capture broad market attention. Business leaders are eager to realise the enormous potential that ChatGPT as well as other generative AI models can offer. Flash Report November 30, 2022 Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) Approved by European Council; More Than 50,000 Organisations Affected For the latest on CSRD, click here.On 28 November, 2022 the European Union (EU) Council (“Council”) gave its final approval to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which will require new, standardised and detailed sustainability reporting by companies. The CSRD represents a significant expansion from the earlier Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), which it replaces, and… Blogs July 31, 2023 Building a ‘metaverse for good’ requires an ethical foundation Nina Jane Patel, Bloomberg's technology columnist, recently entered the metaverse environment Horizon Venues, a newly launched virtual-reality social platform, to have a look for herself. She found the virtual, extended, augmented and mixed reality, along with other Web 3.0 tools, engaging but also a little too real. She unfortunately experienced some “creepy” encounters that included groping,… Podcast July 20, 2023 NSW Chief Data Scientist Ian Opperman on ways we’ll use the metaverse in future VISION by Protiviti interviews Dr. Ian Oppermann, the New South Wales Government’s Chief Data Scientist working within the Department of Customer Service and expert on the future impact of technology on society, about how we’ll use the metaverse in the future. Dr. Oppermann is also an Industry Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and served as CEO of the New South Wales Data Analytics… Load More