Results for “Finance Trends Survey” Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog July 10, 2023 Technical Debt Demands Your Attention By the numbers: Technical debt consumes nearly one-third of technology budgets and more than one-fifth of technology professionals’ time; 70% of CIOs and technology leaders view technical debt as a major drag on their organization’s ability to innovate. Why it matters: Technical debt creates critical concerns for the organization, not the least of which is the cost to manage it. Technical debt… Video December 21, 2024 Video | Protiviti Legal Perspectives With Managing Director Sunny Sanghani In this episode of the Protiviti Legal Perspectives podcast series, host Chad Volkert, Global Solutions leader at Protiviti, welcomes Sunny Sanghani, a managing director in Protiviti’s Legal Consulting practice, to discuss key trends and challenges in the legal technology landscape. With nearly 18 years of experience at Protiviti, Sunny shares a unique career journey that began in internal audit… Blog August 8, 2023 Financial Leaders Need to Be AI-Curious and Risk-Aware. Here's Why. The big picture: ChatGPT is among numerous large language models that will transform industries, corporate functions, the global economy and other realms. These models also pose something of an innovation litmus test for finance leaders. Many CFOs remain wary of GenAI applications in, and implications for, the finance group and throughout the rest of the organization. A key point: Leading… Blog May 6, 2025 A Client’s FP&A Transformation: The Shift from BPC to SAP Analytics Cloud Planning At this year’s 2025 SAPinsider conference, we talked with organizations who are leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud Planning (SACP) to transform their financial planning and analysis (FP&A) processes. We were honored to present one client story that details the success companies are realizing using SACP to migrate from legacy platforms like SAP’s Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC). BPC has… Survey April 4, 2024 CIOs and CTOs See Skills, Staffing and Talent as Top Risk Concerns Businesses today face a myriad of challenges as they work to adapt and transform their operational models in order to overcome future obstacles, including competitive pressures and cyber threats. Moreover, the global marketplace is deeply influenced by advancements in technology, changing regulations and economic factors, all of which necessitate access to skilled professionals and expertise.… Blog February 4, 2019 Planning to Go Public in 2019? How to Get and Stay IPO-Ready Through the Government Shutdowns and Other Market Conditions 2018 was a strong year for initial public offerings (IPOs), and investors have been looking forward to some high-profile initial public offerings in 2019. Companies are counting on the capital raised from those offerings to achieve critical business objectives, such as expansion — through either internal growth initiatives or acquisitions — or paying down debt incurred in pre-IPO growth… Blog April 25, 2018 Part 5: GRC AC/PC 12: What’s Trending? A Report from GRC 2018 and Financials 2018 The 2018 GRC and Finance SAP Insider Conferences took place in mid-February in Las Vegas. Our SAP teams spent time attending conference sessions, and their observations on what’s trending across the industry are compiled here in a five-part series. During the conference, SAP® announced a major update to the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) suite of products, with Access Control (AC), Process… Survey February 6, 2024 2024 Top Risks in the Healthcare Industry Labor costs, economic conditions and talent lead risk concerns for healthcare leadersThe analysis of risk insights from global executives for both 2024 and a decade out reveals several interrelated challenges that could result in disruptions significant enough to test an organization’s agility and resilience.Changes in the profile of top risks from the prior year point to a number of shifting… Whitepaper September 16, 2020 Strategies for Reducing Retail Shrink During Challenging Times Shrink has long represented a significant challenge for retailers. Unfortunately, during a time of tightening margins and declining sales, the issue shows no signs of withering away. According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey of the National Retail Federation (NRF), shrink is at an all-time high. In 2019, it accounted for an average rate of 1.62% of inventory, calculated at retail,… Blog August 23, 2016 Sourcing SOX Compliance Costs: Fewer Controls, More Scrutiny In a recent post recapping our webinar on rising SOX compliance costs, we cited increased external auditor scrutiny of “information produced by entity” (IPE), or electronic audit evidence, as contributing significantly to the increase in costs, with the testing and validation of IPE requiring almost twice the eight-hour average time required to test other internal controls. External auditors of… Load More