Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Blogs March 9, 2022 The ‘Goldilocks Zone’ of Compliance and How to Face a Regulatory Audit With Confidence Frequent headlines of compliance breaches — and the likely morass of costly fines and penalties — are common in Australia’s regulatory environment. Meanwhile, executives are held personally liable, finding themselves on the monetary chopping block and facing potentially career-ending outcomes and/or criminal sanctions. Being on the wrong end of an audit by the Australian Securities &… Blogs June 12, 2026 A Disciplined Executive Approach to SAP S/4HANA From a board level perspective, the case for migration is typically supported by several legitimate considerations:Future state enablement, including analytics, automation and AI readiness.Platform scalability and simplification aligned to long term growth.SAP ECC (ERP Central Component) maintenance timelines, which introduce long range support and cost considerations.Cybersecurity concerns,… Blogs July 16, 2025 Looking beyond compliance: The long game of sustainability management and reporting As regulators in Europe and the United States pump the brakes on mandatory sustainability reporting regulations, sustainability management emerges as a driver of business value on its own. Recent data shows executives are unwilling to drop sustainability from their agenda, regardless of the political winds and regulatory pull-back. Newsletter June 11, 2026 COSO’s guiding principles for board oversight: Why directors should care Understand COSO board oversight and how its guiding principles help directors strengthen governance, manage risk and drive long-term value. Blogs April 26, 2023 COSO issues supplemental guidance on internal control over sustainability reporting – With examples Last Thursday, the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released interpretive guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO… Blogs October 5, 2023 Australia’s Privacy Act is fundamentally changing: What this means for your organisation On the 28th of September, the Australian Government released its long-awaited response to the Attorney General’s Privacy Act Review Report. The Government response outlines its stance across the 116 proposals put forward by the Attorney General. In May, we originally published our article analysing the proposed changes that we believe will be most impactful for our clients, we have updated the… Flash Report April 30, 2025 Trump 2.0: The First 100 Days – A Look at Industry Winners and Losers When Donald Trump took office on January 20 as the 47th President of the United States, U.S. chief executive officers (CEOs) were looking forward to 2025 with renewed optimism based on the expectation that business conditions would improve. That sentiment was prevalent notwithstanding cautions from notable economists that the strategies of a second Trump administration might keep interest… Blogs April 25, 2024 Julie Bishop: Find a way to build a better world The challenges facing governments around the world, including Australia, are immense and growing. Leaders in both the public and private sector need to evaluate the risks and take the necessary steps to begin to solve the unprecedented problems they face. To help sort it all out, VISION by Protiviti caught up with Julie Bishop, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 until 2018. Bishop… Whitepaper March 23, 2020 Achieving High Performance in Internal Audit: How valuable is internal audit to your organisation? Over the past decade, the Institute of Internal Auditors-Australia and Protiviti have published a series of research papers documenting key trends and issues facing the internal audit profession in Australia. Our research has consistently shown that organisations are expecting internal auditors to “add value” to the organisations they serve. Yet, it is also clear from our research, that this… Podcast Transcript July 20, 2023 Transcript | NSW Chief Data Scientist Ian Opperman on ways we’ll use the metaverse in future VISION by Protiviti interviews Dr. Ian Oppermann, the New South Wales Government’s Chief Data Scientist working within the Department of Customer Service and expert on the future impact of technology on society, about how we’ll use the metaverse in the future. Dr. Oppermann is also an Industry Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and served as CEO of the New South… Load More