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    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…
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    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…
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    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…
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    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 only…
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    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. A survey of…
  • 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,…
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    August 8, 2019
    RPA or AI? To Achieve Most Automation Goals, You Need Both
    Discussions of robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) tend to follow separate tracks. This has been a function of the way these technologies have been marketed and sold. This is changing as companies realize that both RPA and AI are required to achieve any significant degree of end-to-end process automation. For example, even a company that is not ready to delegate…
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    August 13, 2019
    CECL – A Regulators’ Perspective
    In July, we had the pleasure of hosting a panel discussion with financial regulators in Protiviti’s San Francisco office. The discussion was attended by representatives from 25 banks and financial institutions, including Bank of the West, Charles Schwab, First Republic, MUFG and Wells Fargo. The panelists were Robert Coleman, Regional Accountant from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (…
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    August 21, 2019
    Panel Discussion on FAIR Methodology Sparks Lively Interest: Key Takeaways
    At the most recent meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the FAIR Institute, a group of local practitioners, analysts and C-level executives gathered for a panel discussion on the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) methodology. The discussion was hosted by Protiviti, which recently joined the FAIR Institute community as a Founding Sponsor in Advisory Services. We have…
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    August 22, 2019
    FDIC and OCC Approve Volcker Rule Overhaul, Easing Restrictions on Bank Trading Activities
    On August 20, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) approved a set of changes to the Volcker Rule’s proprietary trading and compliance provisions. The other three Volcker Rule agencies – the Federal Reserve, the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission – have yet to approve the changes but…
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