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    April 17, 2020
    COVID-19 and SOX: Practical Considerations While Navigating the Crisis
    With the impact of COVID-19 extending further every day, its impact on organizations’ Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) programs is unlikely to be their top priority. However, despite the fact that the SEC has allowed for some delay in filing dates, business continues. Internal controls must still be executed and documented, even if in a different manner than was done historically. Continuing to pay attention…
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    April 20, 2020
    The COVID-19 Effect on IPOs: Pre-Public Firms Press “Pause” for Now, but IPO Readiness Must Continue
    With the Covid-19 pandemic raging and the related turbulence in the financial markets, a number of high-profile companies have postponed or slowed the pace of their initial public offerings (IPOs). Based on historical trends during other downturns, the pause on IPOs likely will continue even after markets stabilize, as firms observe a cooling-off period until they gain enough confidence in both…
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    April 20, 2020
    FEMA Funding $$$$ Beginning With the End in Mind: COVID-19 Efforts
    Located within the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is responsible for coordinating the federal government’s response to natural and manmade disasters. FEMA is charged with providing both immediate and long-term assistance to local and state governments as well as individuals. FEMA funds are traditionally a large source of federal government…
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    April 21, 2020
    Cybersecurity Should Be a High Priority for Media Companies Making Crisis Management Plans
    Media companies are under strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and their crisis management plans for ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery are undergoing a major, real-world test. One certainty in this uncertain time is that the crisis will highlight clearly where and how these firms need to strengthen their crisis management plans to improve business resiliency. As they do so, they…
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    April 22, 2020
    Remote Workforce Challenges – Managing Employee Productivity
    Protiviti recently introduced the U.N.I.T.E. checklist to share leading practices that help manage remote teams in today’s rapidly shifting work environment. With most of the world now several weeks (or more) into remote working arrangements, we are expanding on our original checklist to explore one specific area of concern observed with our clients and teams: effective, actionable and empathetic…
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    April 22, 2020
    Automation — Healthcare’s Next Great Workforce
    The COVID-19 pandemic has hit all industries, but it has put a real squeeze on the healthcare industry. This pandemic is pressuring healthcare providers from all sides, causing an increase in patients that require intensive care and ventilators, but also causing a constraint on revenues as most other departments halt and defer services to protect those patients and caregivers from becoming…
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    April 23, 2020
    An Intelligent Workplace Can Help Finance Leaders Navigate the COVID-19 Turbulence and Future Disruptions
    When Protiviti conducted a top risks survey among more than 1,000 executives and board members in the third quarter of 2019, few had imagined the risks they’d be facing today brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of the finance professionals who attended a recent webinar on creating an intelligent workplace said they never saw this type of disruption coming. Less then a quarter had a…
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    April 23, 2020
    U.S. Congress Agrees to Additional $310 Billion for Paycheck Protection Program
    On April 21, the U.S. Senate approved legislation authorizing additional COVID-19-related funding, including $310 billion in supplemental funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The U.S. House approved the legislation on April 23, and President Trump is expected to sign it tomorrow. The PPP funding program went live on April 3 and the initial tranche of $349 billion in available…
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    March 29, 2021
    An Approach to Measuring the Value of Human Capital
    Stakeholders have long believed that effective assessments of a company’s performance and prospects require solid information on workforce costs and productivity, on how employees are hired, developed and managed, and other human capital factors. Agencies, governing bodies and investors have recently exerted pressure on a number of authorities worldwide to ensure more human capital information is…
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    March 30, 2021
    Protiviti Advisory Board on Pandemic Lessons Learned and the Path to a “Better Normal” – A Virtual Event Recap
    One afternoon last week, Protiviti President and CEO Joe Tarantino welcomed more than 130 clients and friends of the firm to spend an afternoon with the members of Protiviti’s Advisory Board: Peter Henry, Fran Townsend, Evelyn Dilsaver and Susan Molinari. The afternoon included a panel discussion with all the Advisory Board members followed by fireside chats with individual members of the board.…
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