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    June 1, 2017
    Financial Firm Auditors: Are You Ready to Audit Under CECL?
    Amid widespread concern that Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) are inadequate when it comes to advising investors on deteriorating credit quality, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a new methodology. The new standard, known as Current Expected Credit Loss, or CECL, uses data analytics to forecast expected losses based on internal and external trends, as well…
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    February 8, 2022
    Vulnerability Management: We’ve Been Doing It All Wrong
    Vulnerability management is a discipline that many organizations struggle with due to one simple factor: complexity. Today, organizations manage environments with technology that changes at an ever-increasing speed while relying upon legacy systems to support key business processes. In response to this complexity challenge, cybersecurity professionals continue to create new vulnerability…
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    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…
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    October 23, 2020
    M&A Outlook: Technology and PE-Led Deals Pick Up After Pandemic Pause
    Uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic kept investors on the sidelines in the first half of 2020. During this period, merger and acquisition (M&A) volume dropped 32% compared to the previous year and total deal values declined by more than half to $901.6 billion, versus $1.9 trillion in the prior-year period. The first half of 2020 saw only $73.5 billion in technology deals, barely…
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    September 19, 2019
    The IIA FS Exchange Conference, Continued: Podcast With Erika Ray
    Protiviti is a sponsor and speaker at The IIA’s Financial Services Exchange conference in Washington, DC this week. In today's podcast from the conference, Erika Ray from Protiviti discusses the concept of the "borrowed idea," which was the subject of a panel discussion Erika hosted along with three other panelists: Amazon’s Arin Slavis, Hilton Hotel Worldwides’ Denis McCarthy and Ohio State…
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    August 25, 2020
    Tech Can Help Oil and Gas Firms Survive Market Turmoil
    For organizations in the oil and gas (O&G) industry, the combined impact of COVID-19 and erratic oil prices have made for an unprecedented roller coaster ride. Many oil and gas companies are finding it difficult to cope, and others are likely to be severely impaired for the foreseeable future. However, even in the worst of times, there are tools and strategies that can help an organization’s…
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    May 18, 2020
    Risk Awareness and Analytic Insight: Driving Audit Into the Future
    As the world is rapidly changing before our eyes, organizations are becoming increasingly self-aware about vulnerabilities within their operations and infrastructure that, just a couple of months ago, may have seemed like a distant possibility. The current environment’s intense pressures are leading to new challenges and opportunities, which are perfect catalysts for innovation. Amid the…
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    February 26, 2021
    Returning to the Office with an Adaptable, High-Performance Team
    The response to the pandemic from organizations can be classified into multiple phases. In the first phase, business leaders scrambled to equip teams for remote work. Later, ad hoc groups sprang up to devise return-to-office (RTO) plans. Soon after, many recognized they’d have to optimize tools and processes for remote collaboration that would last months longer than they had anticipated. And now…
  • Blog
    January 11, 2023
    Create to Execute: Managing the Fine Print of Sales Contracting
    In Protiviti’s recent post, Easy As CPQ: Launching A Successful Sales Cycle, we outlined the Configure, Price Quote phase of the Q2C process. The next critical step in a company’s quote-to-cash (Q2C) process, and one that helps solidify accurate revenue collection, reporting and a good customer experience, is contract creation and execution. During this phase, any prior negotiations are…
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    April 28, 2020
    COVID-19 Crisis Exposes Flaws in Master Data Sets
    As leaders across all industries struggle with COVID-19 responses and business continuity planning, one simple lesson is becoming apparent – good data is key! One of the basic tenets in crisis management is frequent communication with clients, employees, vendors and other stakeholders but many organizations have struggled with this communication due to issues with the quality of their master data…
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