Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Newsletter December 9, 2022 Setting the 2023 Audit Committee Agenda As in prior years, our suggested 2023 audit committee agenda includes important enterprise, process and technology issues and financial reporting and disclosure issues. In addition to discussing these agenda items, we have offered questions for audit committees to consider when self-assessing their own performance with respect to executing the normal ongoing activities articulated in the… Newsletter June 1, 2020 What Directors Should Be Asking Right Now As companies emerge from lockdowns marked by unprecedented change and begin to look forward, boards should continue to ask the right questions. As countries across the globe emerge from lockdown, discussions tailored to the evolving marketplace and issues around employee health and safety are needed in the boardroom. While the specifics will vary depending on the circumstances, we pose 10… Blogs October 28, 2024 New sustainability reporting law in Australia should prompt fresh look at COSO’s internal control framework Sustainability reporting is now law. On 9 September 2024, the Australian Parliament passed The Australian sustainability reporting regulation into law. The first reports by the largest in-scope entities are due in 2026, for reporting periods beginning 1 January 2025. Video December 22, 2021 Executive Viewpoints: Protiviti on Climate Stress Testing for Banks Michael Brauneis, Financial Services Industry Lead and Managing Director, Protiviti, sits down with Joe Seidel, Chief Operating Officer of SIFMA, to explore climate stress testing for banks. Executive Viewpoints is a special series from SIFMA's 2021 Annual Meeting featuring insightful conversations about the trends and innovations shaping our capital markets. Watch them all at sifma.org/annual. Newsletter October 22, 2024 Private Equity Insights Q3 2024 In this issue of Private Equity Insights, we discuss our latest Global Finance Trends Survey results. CFOs and finance leaders around the world rated their top finance priorities. Our intent is for PE firms to use this intelligence to design and deploy new practices, tools and innovative approaches in their own finance organisation. We next take a look at financial planning & analysis (FP… Newsletter May 13, 2021 Quantum Computing: Why The Board Should Care There is a growing interest across the world in the feasibility of quantum computing and when it will finally become a reality in business. And that’s for good reason. Quantum would enable problem-solving capabilities to address simulations and complicated optimisation questions involving a formidable number of variables and potential outcomes at amazing speeds not attainable with conventional… Flash Report March 5, 2021 SEC Indicates Greater Interest in Climate Change Disclosures March 4, 2021 - On February 24, 2021, Allison Herren Lee, acting chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issued a statement directing the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance to review climate-related disclosures in public company filings and determine the extent to which companies are addressing the topics identified in “Commission Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to… Whitepaper September 13, 2018 Guide to Public Company Transformation - Frequently Asked Questions, Fourth Edition Initial public offerings (IPOs) often generate a great deal of excitement and can give new luster to company brands. It is easy to forget that IPOs can only thrive in the right business climate - and for organisations that have undertaken the business transformation necessary to reach this stage. As this Guide to Public Company Transformation makes clear, preparing to become a public… Blogs April 28, 2022 Advanced Analytics to Optimise Consumer Lending Webcast The availability of large volumes of internal, external, social media data, along with advances in analytics and the advent of machine learning have created the perfect opportunity for optimising consumer lending decisions. Not sure how to create a plan for your own organisation? Attend this webinar to learn how to put an Advanced Analytics approach to optimise consumer lending decision making.… Whitepaper February 4, 2021 Driving Operational Efficiency Through Leading ERP Solutions As an executive in healthcare, you make a lot of important decisions to ensure the financial health of your organisation. One of those important decisions might be to select and implement a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. If you have made that decision, you have determined that your current information system, be it an existing ERP or best-of-breed solution, does not meet the… Load More
