Results for “Finance Trends Survey”

  • Blog
    December 17, 2013
    Sometimes, when capturing data in a data warehouse, we need to store time-variant pieces of data about a transaction. This somewhat blurs the lines between a traditional fact table and a dimension, since in the traditional model, time-variance is mainly the domain of a dimension. Take the example of a production backlog at a manufacturer. When an order is made, particularly in an organization…
  • Blog
    December 17, 2013
    Sometimes, when capturing data in a data warehouse, we need to store time-variant pieces of data about a transaction. This somewhat blurs the lines between a traditional fact table and a dimension, since in the traditional model, time-variance is mainly the domain of a dimension. Take the example of a production backlog at a manufacturer. When an order is made, particularly in an organization…
  • Blog
    March 22, 2018
    As a crucial part of capital planning, Pre-Provision Net Revenue (PPNR) modeling has been under the spotlight for careful review and scrutiny from the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) since 2012 for the annual Comprehensive Capital Assessment and Review (CCAR) submission. Although bank holding companies (BHCs) have become better equipped at utilizing PPNR models for capital planning purposes in recent…
  • Blog
    August 12, 2016
    Introduced in the 1960s to perform simple manufacturing tasks, robotic automation has evolved into a jack-of-all-trades, moving into the head office to streamline and accelerate a variety of business processes as part of a global digital transformation. Robotic process automation (RPA) and robotic desktop automation (RDA) use software for tasks such as processing sales and financial transactions…
  • Blog
    August 26, 2019
    Which of these statements is true? “Customers love when retailers provide them with a better shopping experience. Online, customers value the convenience of buying and shipping merchandise with a few clicks; personalized cross-selling and upselling features seem to read their minds. In stores, customers enjoy generous return policies enabled by retailers’ records of their past transactions…
  • Blog
    June 23, 2022
    Among the business topics that have dominated the press over the past two years, supply chain difficulties and labor shortages have certainly been at the top. But the two are not mutually exclusive. Organizations across all industries are having a hard time finding employees to keep their supply chains operating as efficiently and smoothly as possible; goals that have been made more difficult…
  • Blog
    May 11, 2018
    While much of the conversation around financial technology (fintech) has focused on the consumer experience and revenue enhancement, many of those same innovations — robotic process automation, machine learning, natural language processing and data analytics — are being applied with great success to regulatory technology, or regtech. Regtech is not just about applying technology to current…
  • Blog
    September 21, 2016
    As Protiviti reported back in May, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have been looking for lessons in the global banking crisis of 2007-08 and have come up with new forward-looking predictive models for financial institutions to use when estimating how much to reserve against potential loan losses. The FASB’s CECL model will…
  • Blog
    June 30, 2017
    Few manufacturers would disagree with the view that the Internet of Things, big data integration and other advances in technology are boosting productivity, streamlining supply and distribution channels, and improving product support. But the WannaCry ransomware attack unleashed on businesses, governments and hospitals across the globe last month and the most recent attack this week delivered a…
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