Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Flash Report February 14, 2022 Turning high-level models into optimized quantum circuits As we begin training and building up the quantum workforce of the future, it’s clear the precious few developers working in these early days will need some help making the most of their time. Blog December 16, 2019 OCC Flags Warning Signs of Operational, Credit and Interest Rate Risks In its Fall 2019 Semiannual Risk Perspective, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) highlights operational, credit and interest rate risks among key risk themes posing threats to the financial institutions it regulates. The themes, addressed by the OCC in this report, cover current and emerging risks facing national banks and federal savings associations as of June 30, 2019. The… Blog December 18, 2019 Winning the Finance Talent War: Five Strategies Recruiting and retaining the right resources in the finance function has never been more critical due to accelerating adoption of new technologies and complying with a growing list of regulations. But a finance labor shortage often stands in the way of these imperatives, posing operational risks. Protiviti’s latest Executive Perspectives on Top Risks Survey, conducted annually by Protiviti and… Blog December 20, 2019 CECL and the New AICPA Practice Aid: What Audit Committee Members Need to Know (Part 1) With the deadline around the corner for large companies to adopt the new accounting standards on current expected credit losses (CECL), the AICPA has published a Practice Aid to help management, internal auditors and audit committees prepare. The new CECL standard fundamentally changes the way financial services organizations calculate expected loan losses and raises the bar on financial… Blog January 2, 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Internal Audit: A Pragmatic Perspective Companies have high hopes for transformational technologies, especially those that leverage the vast amount of data being collected. Approaches using methods such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning are becoming increasingly accessible and gaining significant traction, as they allow for deep insights to be extracted from large and varied data sets. As noted in… Blog January 6, 2020 RPA Offers a Fast and Cost-Effective Way to Automate Account Reconciliations Seventy-three percent of chief financial officers are looking to new technologies as ways to streamline processes and add value to their organizations, according to Protiviti’s 2019 Finance Trends survey. There are many off-the-shelf solutions that promise to help them do that by automating everything from check processing to call centers. Another, sometimes overlooked solution is robotic process… Blog January 7, 2020 Getting Ready for the Threat of Cyber Warfare On January 4, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) bulletin describing current developments and general trends regarding the terrorist threat posed by nation-state cyber warfare programs. According to the NTAS, the catalyst for the bulletin’s issuance is the United States’ “lethal strike in Iraq killing Iranian IRGC-Quds Force… Blog January 7, 2020 PCAOB Shares Audit Committee Insights Last month, in an effort to improve audit quality and provide transparency into the inspections process, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) released a report drawing on conversations with nearly 400 audit committee chairs. On Jan. 2, 2020, Protiviti published a flash report highlighting key points in the PCAOB’s report, along with commentary. Here are some top-level insights… Blog January 9, 2020 LIBOR Transition: Preventing History From Repeating Itself The London Interbank Offer Rate, or LIBOR, which according to the New York Times is the “one number that arguably matters more than any other” in the world of finance, will no longer be the primary benchmark rate used by the financial services industry as of year-end 2021. In the 35 years since the financial markets began using LIBOR, firms across the financial services industry, including… Blog January 14, 2020 A Rise in Collaboration Between Internal Audit and IT Is a Welcome Trend In mid-October, Protiviti and ISACA released the 2019 Global IT Audit Benchmarking Study, for which we surveyed more than 2,200 internal audit (IA) executives and professionals around the world. We summarized the key findings of the survey in this post, and we discussed them at greater length during a recent webinar. In this post, I want to elaborate on one specific finding, which made the top… Load More
