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  • Volume 8, Issue 9
    December 1, 2024
    The next 12 months are likely to be another challenging year for audit committees. The 9 topics we have highlighted for 2025 may include some areas audit committees would consider beyond the official scope of responsibility as outlined in their respective charters.
  • Volume 8, Issue 8
    March 24, 2024
    In the race toward innovation and transformation, it can be easy for leadership to overlook their crucial role in driving change in the organization, including fostering vital new mindsets and behaviors.What you should know: Executive engagement is a critical component to enable change. It’s important to make the distinction that leaders and…
  • Volume 8, Issue 7
    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,…
  • Volume 8, Issue 7
    November 29, 2023
    Compared to prior years, our suggested 2024 audit committee agenda has taken a bit of a turn due to ongoing and recent market and regulatory developments. A complex business environment: The 2024 audit committee agenda includes important enterprise, governance, process, technology, and financial reporting and disclosure issues that merit…
  • Volume 8, Issue 6
    September 25, 2023
    Delivering results — and the 60-hour-a-week grind fests that doing so demanded — often sufficed for “leadership development.” Not anymore.What’s at stake: It’s time to understand new talent and workforce realities. Organizations that fail to address succession planning and leadership development inadequacies won’t be successful over the long term…
  • Volume 8, Issue 5
    May 4, 2023
    1 big thing: Where are the culture strategies? Consider this: If culture eats strategy for breakfast, why do some organizations continue to respond to labor shortages and economic contractions with salary increases, staff reductions and other snack-sized, often short-sighted actions?
  • Volume 8, Issue 4
    February 21, 2023
    People and culture sit atop the list of key risk concerns of board members and executives worldwide looking out over the next 12 months as well as into 2032, according to the latest Top Risks Survey from Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative. Even amid an uncertain economy, inflationary conditions and fears of a possible…
  • Volume 8, Issue 3
    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…
  • Volume 8, Issue 2
    October 13, 2022
    A University of Oxford and Protiviti global survey reports that North American companies are less committed to ESG than their counterparts in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The questions are why this disparity exists, and where does your organization stand?
  • Volume 8, Issue 1
    September 13, 2022
    By Fran Maxwell, Managing Director People Advisory and Organizational Change Global Leader Today’s challenging business climate demands that boards of directors and executive leaders view the organization’s talent strategy in coordination and lockstep with their strategic business objectives. High-performing organizations are deploying a new…

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