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  • Blog
    March 26, 2019
    With greater consumer awareness and changing social values, most organizations these days feel compelled to report on their sustainable business practices. Not only are such disclosures good for the image of the company, but they come with concrete financial benefits attached – one in every four dollars invested in the United States, and $23 trillion globally, come from investors who say that…
  • Blog
    April 1, 2019
    Organizations are feeling the heat. Companies across all industries are under pressure to innovate and create new ways of doing business to stay relevant. For financial services organizations in particular, these pressures are even stronger due to fierce competition from industry behemoths as well as new, “born digital” start-up companies. Among the many challenges: balancing complex and ever-…
  • Blog
    April 4, 2019
    Updated November 11, 2022 In today’s world, where corporate scandals often make front-page news, fraud prevention and detection are becoming a priority for management and decision-makers. An alarming fact reported by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) stated that an average organisation loses an estimated 5% of its annual revenue to fraud. Hence, fraud is posed as one of the…
  • Blog
    April 9, 2019
    With the initial deadline for adherence to the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) accounting standard approaching, regulators and industry representatives gathered in New York recently for the CECL 2019 conference to discuss the top-of-mind considerations for CECL and understand what public, SEC-filing institutions should be doing to prepare to go live with the standard on January 1, 2020. One…
  • Blog
    April 15, 2019
    “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This famous defense of the status quo was popularized in 1977 by Bert Lance, a Georgia banker and Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under President Jimmy Carter. It is apt that such wisdom would come from a banker, especially one who served, albeit briefly, as America’s chief financial officer (CFO). Anyone who has ever wrestled with trying…
  • Blog
    April 19, 2019
    It should be no surprise that finding and keeping workers with digital skills is a top concern for executives and directors. The more digital companies become, the fiercer the competition for workers with a digital mindset: an aptitude to flourish in this new environment. In the most recent Top Risks survey, conducted by Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative in…
  • Blog
    June 8, 2020
    The COVID-19 crisis threw companies for a loop as an economic downturn that to many may have looked like a manageable possibility in the beginning, unfortunately became a full-blown economic crisis and human tragedy. For many boards, this meant working closely with management to revisit the strategy to address new risks on top of existing ones. In the chaos, the companies that were most…
  • Blog
    June 9, 2020
    On June 2, 2020, Protiviti Advisory Board member Susan Molinari and Protiviti Executive Vice President Patrick Scott joined Protiviti Managing Director and moderator Frank Kurre for a webinar discussion entitled “How Should You Communicate with Customers During a Crisis?”The webinar explored a number of questions around best practices for communicating with clients during this time of COVID-19…
  • Blog
    June 10, 2020
    Although the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted one 45-day extension for public companies subject to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) reporting requirements, the regulator still expects companies to appropriately protect investors and the public interest by maintaining the full rigor of internal control requirements. As a result, a number of challenges need to be addressed. I had the…
  • Blog
    June 11, 2020
    COVID-19 has thrown a wrench into business operations around the world. Workplaces once teeming with workers sit empty as staffs have worked from home for the last several weeks. Considering the fact that major organizations have announced that remote working could become permanent for some of their employees, business won’t return to the “old normal” anytime soon, if ever. The disruption is…
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