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  • Insights paper

    February 21, 2025
    The era of big data is ushering in a digital transformation driven by the Internet-of-Things, mobile technology, AI and cloud computing. This revolution has generated a vast array of new digital data sources. Many Australian businesses are digitising.
  • Blogs

    February 18, 2022
    CFOs and finance leaders are focusing more time, expertise and innovation on their organisation’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) and Human Capital investments and reporting. Not only do ESG and Human Capital metrics and measurement rank among the higher priorities for CFOs and finance leaders, according to Protiviti’s latest global survey of CFOs and finance leaders, but these areas…
  • Client Story

    April 1, 2021
    At a time when the healthcare industry is rapidly changing and evolving to address the unprecedented challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, enhancing patient care, reducing the length of hospital stays, improving productivity and creating safer environments has never been more critical. Rapid digital advancements fueling IoT medical device connectivity are now revolutionising treatment and…
  • Blogs

    August 22, 2025
    Artificial intelligence (AI) and technological advancements are igniting new levels of enthusiasm among CFOs about the potential of these technologies to transform finance departments and the broader enterprise. However, there's also a natural concern about falling behind competitors who are quicker to adopt these innovations. Equally disruptive is the persistent shortage of technology skills,…
  • Podcast

    November 3, 2023
    The volume of CFO priorities has increased for years. In the past 12 months, the intensity of these urgencies also spiked, forcing finance leaders to make higher-stakes decisions more quickly and implement major adjustments with far-reaching implications.Results from the latest Global Finance Trends Survey conducted by Protiviti show that CFOs recognise the volume and magnitude of the challenges…
  • Survey

    May 9, 2023
    Organisations today spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets and invest a fifth of their IT human resources on technical debt management. This research, based on a global survey of more than 1,000 CIOs, CTOs and other technology leaders, underscores the burden created by technical debt and likely is an eye-opener for the CFO.[1] As organisations strive to increase their focus, and time and…
  • Blogs

    February 18, 2022
    Organisations look to CFOs and VPs of finance for additional actions and data that, until recently, were considered outside their purview. Results from a just released Protiviti Finance Trends Survey reveal that these leaders are increasingly relied on as a go-to source for insights required by companies to address fast-moving drivers of change: CFOs and VPs of finance are informing and…
  • Blogs

    February 29, 2024
    Australian companies in the energy and utilities (E&U) industry are moving fast to adopt artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI, to increase their competitive edge.
  • Blogs

    March 4, 2022
    Overview of top risk issues in 2022 While the CFO’s rapidly expanding collection of strategic concerns continues to defy expectations, the Top Risks Survey results for finance leaders reflect a fundamental dynamic of physics. Acceleration is directly proportional to force, according to Newton’s Second Law, which helps explain why the CFO’s role is transforming so swiftly. The past two…
  • Podcast

    May 12, 2025
    Our Blind Spots in the Boardroom series is focused on critical business issues that can significantly impact an organization's strategy and operations, particularly those that the board and/or C-suite are not focused on at all or enough.In this episode of Blind Spots in the Boardroom, host Frank Kurre and guest Mark Rogers discuss the strategic and often lengthy process of securing a board…
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