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  • Blog
    April 20, 2020
    Located within the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is responsible for coordinating the federal government’s response to natural and manmade disasters. FEMA is charged with providing both immediate and long-term assistance to local and state governments as well as individuals. FEMA funds are traditionally a large source of federal government…
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    April 21, 2020
    Media companies are under strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and their crisis management plans for ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery are undergoing a major, real-world test. One certainty in this uncertain time is that the crisis will highlight clearly where and how these firms need to strengthen their crisis management plans to improve business resiliency. As they do so, they…
  • Blog
    April 22, 2020
    Protiviti recently introduced the U.N.I.T.E. checklist to share leading practices that help manage remote teams in today’s rapidly shifting work environment. With most of the world now several weeks (or more) into remote working arrangements, we are expanding on our original checklist to explore one specific area of concern observed with our clients and teams: effective, actionable and empathetic…
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    April 22, 2020
    The COVID-19 pandemic has hit all industries, but it has put a real squeeze on the healthcare industry. This pandemic is pressuring healthcare providers from all sides, causing an increase in patients that require intensive care and ventilators, but also causing a constraint on revenues as most other departments halt and defer services to protect those patients and caregivers from becoming…
  • Blog
    April 23, 2020
    When Protiviti conducted a top risks survey among more than 1,000 executives and board members in the third quarter of 2019, few had imagined the risks they’d be facing today brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of the finance professionals who attended a recent webinar on creating an intelligent workplace said they never saw this type of disruption coming. Less then a quarter had a…
  • Blog
    March 29, 2021
    Stakeholders have long believed that effective assessments of a company’s performance and prospects require solid information on workforce costs and productivity, on how employees are hired, developed and managed, and other human capital factors. Agencies, governing bodies and investors have recently exerted pressure on a number of authorities worldwide to ensure more human capital information is…
  • Blog
    March 30, 2021
    One afternoon last week, Protiviti President and CEO Joe Tarantino welcomed more than 130 clients and friends of the firm to spend an afternoon with the members of Protiviti’s Advisory Board: Peter Henry, Fran Townsend, Evelyn Dilsaver and Susan Molinari. The afternoon included a panel discussion with all the Advisory Board members followed by fireside chats with individual members of the board.…
  • Blog
    March 31, 2021
    2020 was certainly a year for change in so many ways, not the least of which was companies adapting their internal controls to the stay-at-home orders resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as many are considering bringing people back to the office at least part time, the internal controls environment is up for yet another change. Protiviti’s SOX Champions Network, a global network of…
  • Blog
    April 1, 2021
    Historically, the oil and gas (O&G) industry has proven to be nothing if not resilient. However, the COVID-19 disruption has tested the mettle of even the largest and most dynamic companies in the sector, and leaders at many O&G companies in the United States already see that 2021 is full of more challenges to come. Factors shaping that view include uncertainty stemming from the…
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    April 6, 2021
    The compliance requirements for airlines participating in the payroll support and loan programs initially instituted under the CARES Act in the United States continue to increase in volume and complexity with the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Like previous emergency funding packages, the $14 billion of direct aid for payroll support comes with many restrictions, and airlines…
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