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    May 16, 2021
    The future of our collective success: the inclusion imperative  Our future business and societal success demand us to be different: to think and act differently. How can we achieve this if we continue to surround ourselves with people who look and think like us? Is the ethical imperative for UK plc to create workplaces that offer greater opportunity for those groups most hurt by the pandemic? In…
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    May 21, 2021
    The future of sustainability & ESG: a business imperative or just good practice?  Over the last year, many businesses have needed to prioritise survivability over sustainability. The pandemic has amplified ESG awareness and expectations. Investors, shareholders, clients and employees are demanding ESG authenticity and action. What is your company doing today? What do you need to do tomorrow…
  • Newsletter

    November 29, 2023
    As they self-assess their performance periodically, audit committees may find useful the illustrative questions we have made available in our Assessment Questions for Audit Committees to Consider. Committee members should periodically assess the committee’s composition, charter and agenda focus in view of the company’s industry, circumstances, risks, financial reporting issues and current…
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    December 9, 2022
    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

    May 19, 2020
    This issue of The Bulletin is the second of our two-part discussion of the challenge in finding equilibrium in these uncertain times. In Part 1, we discussed the attributes and actions needed to find equilibrium in the likely phased transition from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown.[1] Given that a period of ongoing change will follow the lockdown, equilibrium means achieving the…
  • Whitepaper

    April 13, 2020
    Marcel de Jongh and Anneke Wieling, Protiviti restructuring specialists The corona virus is spreading quickly around the world. Your company’s first priority is the health and wellbeing of your employees and their families. Your second priority is to keep calm and to control your cash flows and cash position. Nobody can predict the future, but you can take measures to optimise your cash – and to…
  • Newsletter

    September 10, 2020
    Churchill said he strived “to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year — and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” His acknowledgment of the futility in predicting the future is especially apropos today as markets transition to the eventual “new normal.” The business model is akin to a finely tuned machine requiring the…
  • Blogs

    January 5, 2022
    Key trends for finance leaders have been rapidly accelerated by the pandemic. Protiviti explores the results of our latest Finance Trends Survey to find out more.
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    September 29, 2021
    Between March and October 2020, at the start of the pandemic, the number of UK adults with ‘characteristics of vulnerability’ increased by 3.7 million to 27.7 million people. In July 2021, the UK Finance COO Forum explored how financial firms have been responding to vulnerable customers and increased attention from regulators.
  • Whitepaper

    October 6, 2023
    The report looks at the operational consequences from ESG regulatory reporting requirements. It sets out: how financial institutions should manage ESG data across the data lifecycle; the challenges operationally in satisfying the evolving nature of ESG regulations; and where there are opportunities for new technology to exist within this exchange despite the challenges.Click here to view the…
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