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March 19, 2025

IAASB’s ISSA 5000 Sets the Global Standard for Sustainability Assurance

The International Standard on Sustainability Assurance, or ISSA 5000, developed by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) in late 2024, is widely expected to be the global benchmark for sustainability assurance, influencing the future of sustainability audits. As regulatory mandates for sustainability reporting increase, organisations seeking...
The Australian proposed sustainability reporting regulation, also known as The Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and Other measures) Bill 2024 is now before the Australian Parliament for adoption. This follows a comment period on two exposure drafts in 2023 and a draft bill presented in January 2024. The current bill is not significantly different from the draft bill.
In a world where unpredictability has become the norm, organisations are constantly seeking innovative methods to ensure their teams are prepared for any crisis. Traditional training approaches fall short in simulating the complexity and unpredictability of real-world crises and are not tailored to the organisation. 
In 2024, global business leaders have plenty to worry about, including how government actions may impact their bottom-line business performance. In a global Future of Government survey conducted by Protiviti and the University of Oxford, the overwhelming majority of executives—97%—say they have some level of concern about the ability of the government to impact their business over the next decade. And more than half…
Content management involves the creation, organisation, storage and distribution of digital content within an organisation, ranging from documents and images to videos and web pages. One of the biggest problems businesses face with content management is the quantity of unstructured content, which is growing exponentially, making it incredibly hard to find good or accurate data.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (D365FO) is a comprehensive ERP solution that empowers businesses to optimise financial management and operational efficiency. With its integrated approach, powerful analytics, scalability and continuous innovation, it is a valuable asset for organisations striving to navigate today’s dynamic business landscape successfully. 
Finance leaders are actively prioritising practical AI use cases that deliver near- and long-term value. And the reason is simple: the benefits of deploying AI to strengthen specific activities are proving to be well worth the investment.
What’s ahead for SAP’s BusinessObjects? Customers currently on BusinessObjects 4.2 should know that it will go out of support at the end of this year. Which means that now is the optimum time to make the move to the latest supported BusinessObjects version.
In the consumer products and retail sectors, the burdens of legacy systems and manual processes pose significant challenges for organisations across the value chain from store or online purchases to overall operations. Disconnected applications, error-prone tasks, technical debt and a lack of insight and intelligence can hinder efficiency and innovation. To address these pressing issues, a strategic approach to…
Businesses are constantly searching for new ways to match messaging to eyeballs, or put succinctly, trying to adapt new strategies to engage effectively with customers where they are consuming content. But what happens when these digital marketing and advertising efforts start to lose steam?
While the ink is still drying on many 2023 Form 10-Ks, Protiviti has reviewed a subset of the filings to gauge how firms are responding to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) amended Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule adopted in July 2023.
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