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    Emerging Legal Risks: How Privacy and ESG Obligations Can Lead to Class-Action Litigation
    Often attributed to Mark Twain, the phrase “the only two certainties in life are death and taxes” actually originated in a 1789 letter from Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, a prominent French Scientist. When it comes to issues among corporations, one might add a third certainty: you are going to be sued. A betting person knows that a lawsuit (or regulatory inquiry) is going to: seek…
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    ARMing Up for a Paradigm Shift
    In the near future, we expect to see a potential disruption in computing due to a switch in computer architectures as traditional architecture begins to reach its upper limits, and newer alternate architectures currently used in mobile phones and low-power devices become more prominent and powerful. Computing has been dominated by the x86-64 architecture for the better part of the last 40 years…
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    How To Build And Maintain A Sustainable Workday Foundational Data Model
    For many organizations, shifting methodologies for processing financial transactions is easier said than done. Adopting and tailoring the Workday Financial Management Foundational Data Model (FDM) to record financial transactions can be overwhelming when migrating over from a more traditional “chart of accounts” (COA). We explain key concepts and share best practices to enable financial…
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    How to Build Effective FinOps Capabilities in Cloud
    Financial operations (FinOps) professionals around the world are generally unflappable, and they need to be. Moving finances to cloud, essentially transferring the spend from CapEx to OpEx, is proving to be a struggle. Organizations are seeing mixed success as they attempt to adopt new FinOps methodologies and are finding it difficult to control spend as development teams and engineers are…
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    Controls and Automation for Finance: SAP’s Game Changers Podcast
    Between the accelerating momentum of digitization and shifts in geopolitical and financial landscapes, enterprises all over the world face increasing cybersecurity threats. As a result, companies are focusing on internal controls and corporate resilience in both finance and cybersecurity. In addition to the disruptions cyberattacks inflict on operations, they also undermine the reliability of…
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    Top 10 pitfalls of an IAM programme
    In spite of over 20 years of experience as an industry, Identity & Access Management (IAM) programmes continue to struggle — and with good reason. There is a lot that can go wrong with an IAM programme. Lack of funding, treating IAM like a project and not a programme, not having business buy-in, and trying to overly customise packaged software are all examples of significant challenges that…
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    Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: 7 Challenges for CFOs to Address
    Along with their peers in the C-suite, CFOs have treated cybersecurity and data privacy as top strategic priorities for several years. Increasingly, regulators are embracing a similar approach and CFOs need to take note and be ready. Earlier this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to its rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and…
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    New Internal Auditing Around the World Book Features Profiles of Internal Audit Functions Helping to Shape the Workforce and Organization of the Future
    What does the future hold for the internal audit profession? Protiviti explores this question at some level in every annual edition of Internal Auditing Around the World®. Protiviti’s release of Volume 18 of Internal Auditing Around the World  gives us occasion to reflect on just how much has changed in the internal audit profession since our inaugural edition in 2005. The core mission for…
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    Digitizing the Oilpatch: Oilfield Service Companies Becoming the Next High-Tech Firms
    Mention leading technology companies in the world, and it is doubtful that oilfield service organizations jump to the top of your list. These companies are known for performing the gritty work of producing, maintaining and repairing oil-extracting equipment. They also provide drilling, energy discovery, well maintenance and other vital services to oil and gas companies. But a growing number of…
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    ESG Journey Just Beginning, but Leaders Have a Clear Competitive Advantage
    As companies come under growing pressure to make measurable, reportable (and reported) progress on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, there is increased demand on business leaders to implement effective sustainability practices that resonate with customers, partners and employees. Technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies have not been immune to the pressure.…
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