Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog December 15, 2020 Australia’s Responsible Lending Reforms: A Step in The Wrong Direction Australia’s lending standards and responsible lending practices have been prominent topics amongst banks and regulators in recent years, with potentially broad implications for both lenders and borrowers. Based on the critical issues raised by the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (the Royal Commission) in 2019 and the recently… Blog December 15, 2020 Recharging Your Agile Transformation The seismic shift in project management functions from administrative to a consultative business partner is helping organizations transform across the enterprise and all areas of the project life cycle. In many companies, these transformational efforts are progressing well, coordinated by new lean-agile program management office (PMO) leaders. But for others, transformation is still out of reach… Blog December 16, 2020 CFPB Provides Further Guidance on MSAs Under RESPA Section 8 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a compliance aid in October 2020 to provide regulated entities greater clarity around the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) and certain provisions of Regulation X. The compliance aid, presented in the form of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), focuses on RESPA Section 8, which prohibits certain actions related to federally related… Podcast March 20, 2024 Podcast | Quantum Computing in Particle Physics – with Dr. Harry Cliff In 1981, Richard Feynman gave a keynote that proposed simulating physics with computers. We’ve come a long way with the resulting quantum computers, and you may have heard about business use cases for them. But how much progress has been made in using the machines to understand the universe? Who better to ask than Dr. Harry Cliff from the Large Hadron Collider? He discusses how quantum computers… Blog March 6, 2015 Introducing SAP Lumira Edge Edition Just recently we installed the new SAP Lumira Edge Server at Decision First. I’ve done quite a bit of testing and implementations within client engagements on SAP Lumira Server on HANA, but was particularly excited about the release of SAP Lumira Edge. Ad hoc visualizations, dashboards and reporting are requirements of the vast majority of my engagements. However, the issue has… Blog July 25, 2019 SOX Compliance Survey: One Decade of Insights “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Future corporate archeologists may very well reach that conclusion after excavating and poring over early 21st-century evidence of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance activities. Given the law’s extensive requirements, there will be no shortage of documentation to unearth. As Protiviti developed its 10th annual Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey… Blog July 29, 2019 New Staffing Strategies Can Help Finance Leaders Address Business Challenges Keeping up with new technologies and new compliance obligations are two of the greatest pressures finance leaders face, according to the results of a recent Robert Half Management Resources survey. This is driving private companies to change the way they get work done so they can more effectively address these and other pressures. This includes adopting new staffing strategies, scaling their… Blog July 30, 2019 Cyber Risks Drawing Increased Scrutiny in Public Company Transition As everyone who reads the news knows by now, cyberattacks can be expensive. In addition to the risk of direct loss of revenue and intellectual property, there are the potential costs of remediation, legal expenses, brand erosion and urgent cybersecurity improvements. Public companies face the additional risk of a drop in stock value, and the added responsibility of publicly disclosing not… Blog August 1, 2019 FASB Proposes Delaying New Lease Standards for Private Companies, But There’s No Time to Waste At the start of 2019, the implementation deadline for the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) new lease accounting standard passed for most public companies. FASB has proposed postponing the effective date for privately held organizations to the beginning of 2021, but the pressure remains on those organizations that have been struggling to meet the deadline. Read more: FASB… Blog August 5, 2019 Compliance 2.0: Transforming SOX Practices With Technology Organizations have been getting better and more efficient at Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance practices for the past 17 years since SOX was implemented. Nonetheless, with control counts rising and external auditor expectations increasing, compliance hours are growing, too. The results of Protiviti’s 2019 Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey suggest that while a reduction in hours is still possible,… Load More
