Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blogs April 19, 2024 Six Reasons to Reconsider Cost Optimisation As senior executives face more pressure to respond to rising costs and eroding profit margins, CFOs can remind their colleagues that they have more cost-optimisation strategies than they might expect.Many business leaders reflexively reach for the headcount-reduction lever. This is understandable given the rising cost of labor and that downsizing and reducing year-end bonuses usually hits the… Flash Report May 14, 2021 President Biden executive order to strengthen U.S. Cybersecurity will impact federal agencies and public and private sector organisations On May 12, President Joe Biden issued the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. This executive order (EO) is the most recent action by the administration to strengthen U.S. national cyber defenses and address cybersecurity threats and attacks that continue to grow in magnitude, impact and frequency. It is intended to protect networks in the federal, public and private… Whitepaper October 6, 2021 Fortified In The Cloud - The Risk Management Strengths of Cloud Service Providers for the Financial Services Industry Cloud is on the rise in financial services and regulators are taking note. The widespread use of cloud service providers (CSPs) in the financial services industry continues to grow. According to a recent study by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), 91% of financial services organisations are actively using cloud services today or plan to employ them within six to nine months. That is double the… Whitepaper July 19, 2021 Resilience Practices Can Help Firms Mitigate Supply Chain and Third-Party Provider Risks - Top of Mind Compliance Issues for 2021 Customers are major drivers of change in the marketplace. In times of stress, how well companies manage customer experience and expectation can determine whether they succeed. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid demand spikes and panic buying of household items like groceries and cleaning products, companies that successfully addressed customers’ demands (e.g., restocked alternative… Survey April 27, 2022 The Transformation of Transactional Work When comparing the findings of Protiviti’s latest global survey of finance trends to the results from prior years, one of the most significant changes relates to the higher priority placed by midlevel professionals on the finance organisation’s transactional activities – cash flow forecasting, financial reporting, the procure-to-pay cycle, working capital management, profitability reporting and… Flash Report April 27, 2022 Skills and Scale The New Finance Labor Model Proves Its Real-World ValueThe finance labor model of the future has passed a major test – and it was a massive one. The results of Protiviti’s latest global survey of CFOs and finance leaders show that finance organisations which leverage a diverse talent pool of full-time employees, contract and temporary workers, expert external consultants, and managed services and… 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… Blogs February 22, 2021 Changes to Accounting Standards Offer Transformational Opportunities for Insurers, with Extended Time to Implement Big changes are coming to how the insurance industry recognises and reports out financial performance. But the effects won’t be felt just in the accounting department.IFRS 17, Insurance Contracts, and its U.S. companion, accounting standard ASU 2018-12, Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts, are intended to add clarity for investors in the wake of events and… Whitepaper February 18, 2021 Architecting Your Cloud Infrastructure for Failure (and Resilience) Companies aggressively moved to the public cloud in 2020, driven in part by the pandemic and the shift to a remote workforce. That pace is expected to accelerate in 2021, as more and more companies move applications and data to the cloud to achieve the benefits that have been touted for years, including cost savings, flexibility and on-demand scalability. It would be a challenge for an individual… Whitepaper January 29, 2021 Top-of-Mind Compliance Issues for 2021 No 2020 “year in review” for us. We’re glad 2020 is over. We’re looking ahead to the issues that will likely shape the compliance agenda for financial services companies in 2021. While we admit, as you will note in the commentary below, that we can’t completely forget about 2020, it’s time to move on and prepare for the challenges ahead. We’ve identified 12 issues, in no particular order, that… Load More
