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  • Blog
    October 21, 2019
    Reimagining Procure-to-Pay Processes to Drive Process Optimization, Profit Growth
    It’s a rarely-talked-about adage in business that deserves more attention: procurement pays! Time and again, statistics show a strong correlation between a well-defined procurement process and healthy corporate performance. Regardless of industry, strong procurement functions result in higher revenues and reduced procurement process costs. Which is why it’s important to ensure your procurement…
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    February 28, 2023
    Privileged Access Risks and the Journey to Trust
    Most business leaders understand that we live in a hyper-connected world. By embracing the convenience and flexibility cloud-based solutions provide, businesses have traded away the security (and rigidity) of services that once operated within the four walls of enterprise data centers. In making that shift, businesses have incurred new risks associated with an explosion of access privileges to…
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    May 17, 2022
    What Is Embedded Assurance — and How Can It Benefit Enterprise Projects?
    As internal audit leaders work to transform their organization into a next-generation internal audit function, many find that the business is engaging their team more often to provide guidance for a wide range of initiatives — including large transformational or technology projects at the enterprise level. This is a positive trend, as it shows more businesses are seeking to leverage internal…
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    August 1, 2023
    Achieving Resilience Starts at the Top
    New regulations have organizations focusing on resilience more than ever. We find that even if enterprises are not obliged to meet new requirements, they are developing resilient capabilities. Their leaders know that resilient organizations possess the capacity to withstand adverse unexpected changes and that these organizations will succeed with “business as usual,” even in the face of potential…
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    March 2, 2020
    Yes, That Information Is at Risk: Pressure Rising for Oil and Gas Companies to Protect Data
    Oil and gas companies collect, work with and store a wide range of sensitive business data in the course of everyday business. However, they don’t always consider just how much malicious hackers, company insiders, nation-states and other bad actors value that data. As a result, they don’t prioritize developing a data protection program or create one that is comprehensive enough. Depending on…
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    January 17, 2020
    Make ESG Part of the Public Company Readiness Checklist — Your Valuation Could Depend on It
    The public company readiness checklist for any business working toward an initial public offering (IPO) is long and complicated. And now, there are signs in the marketplace that for many companies aiming for an IPO, this checklist may need to include an analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and reporting. Demonstrating meaningful effort and progress with ESG issues…
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    March 31, 2021
    Internal Controls Planning as Organizations Contemplate a Return to the Office
    2020 was certainly a year for change in so many ways, not the least of which was companies adapting their internal controls to the stay-at-home orders resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as many are considering bringing people back to the office at least part time, the internal controls environment is up for yet another change. Protiviti’s SOX Champions Network, a global network of…
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    February 20, 2014
    Ethics in Corporate Governance: “Walking the Talk”
    If it’s true you can’t legislate morality – and all evidence, including but certainly not limited to corporate malfeasance such as the Enron and Worldcom scandals or the questionable corporate behavior of reckless risk-taking to maximize short-term profits and compensation (under “heads I win, tails you lose” compensation structures that left shareholders with the short stick) that contributed to…
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    November 17, 2015
    Happy Cow vs. Hedgehog: Getting Straight on Principle 8
    In conjunction with International Fraud Awareness Week, we will be running a series of blog posts by our Investigations & Fraud Risk Management practice leaders. For more on the topic, and to listen to our recorded webinars, visit www.protiviti.com/internalinvestigations.   International Fraud Awareness Week provides the opportunity to have meaningful dialogue on a topic that often seems…
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