Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blogs April 4, 2022 Preparing for an IPO? Make Sure Transformation Includes Setting a People Strategy Amid the many demands of preparing for and undertaking an initial public offering (IPO), don’t forget your people.Organisations contemplating a state of public company readiness must undergo a complex transformation process that impacts all business functions. Upgrading technology, improving financial reporting processes, and implementing governance, risk and compliance capabilities are all… Blogs April 4, 2022 Creating a More Flexible and Resilient Supply Chain Starts With Identifying Key Risk Exposures No matter what they make or sell — computers, pet food, cosmetics, textiles — companies around the world are grappling with significant supply chain issues. It’s easy to blame the global health crisis for these problems, especially the labor, material and shipping container shortages. Certainly, the pandemic has played its part in exposing the global supply chain’s brittleness and exacerbating… Blogs April 1, 2022 CFOs Should Be Stewards of the Organization’s Speed-Versus-Control Balance As digital transformation accelerates, companies confront a pressing question: Does the balance we strike between speed and control align with our strategy? CFOs are key stakeholders in that ongoing determination, and more finance leaders are assuming stewardship of these deliberations. This emerging responsibility involves assessing and managing the impacts to internal controls that… Podcast Transcript August 11, 2021 Transcript | Turning High-Level Models into Optimized Quantum Circuits As we begin training and building up the quantum workforce of the future, it’s clear the precious few developers working in these early days will need some help making the most of their time. We’re starting to see a few players in the quantum development tool market. How does the new offering from Classiq compare? Instead of worrying about gate-level coding, the Quantum Algorithm Design (QAD)… Whitepaper April 4, 2021 Is It Time to Regulate the Buy-Now-Pay-Later Industry? Or Will We Delay and Simply “Pay for It Later”? By Mark Burgess, Managing Director, Risk and Compliance, and Layla Shakkour, Manager, Risk and Compliance With increasing attention on the potential negative impacts of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services, Australia may soon need to decide at what point BNPL providers will be regarded as credit providers under the law, and effectively regulated as such. Blogs October 19, 2020 The Future Auditor Faces the Digital Imperative Taking Action For Deeper Insights By Lauren Brown Audit committees and boards of directors are looking for deeper insights into the companies they govern. This need matches The Institute of Internal Auditors’ vision of internal auditing and is aligned with the next-generation capabilities of what we at Protiviti have been calling the “future auditor.” This opportunity is… Blogs December 8, 2020 Australia’s Responsible Lending Reforms: A Step in The Wrong Direction? By Layla Shakkour and Mark Burgess Australia’s lending standards and responsible lending practices have been prominent topics amongst banks and regulators in recent years, with potentially broad implications for both lenders and borrowers. Based on the critical issues raised by the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry… Whitepaper July 14, 2022 Managing Privacy Under One Roof Introduction With regulatory change on the horizon with the Attorney-General’s Department currently reviewing the Privacy Act 1988 and proposing reform, high volumes of unrestricted personal data or misuse of personal data by external parties regularly reported in the media, and organisations continuously increasing their data footprint and exploring new ways of using personal information, 2022… Whitepaper July 14, 2022 Data Analytics: Strategies to Demonstrate Value and Achieve Transformation Recently, chief information officers, chief data officers and other leaders got together to discuss how data analytics programmes can help organisations achieve transformation, and how that contribution of value can be measured. We joined to share our insights at this CIO Online virtual roundtable event, which included leaders from organisations in healthcare, financial services,… Whitepaper June 28, 2022 Project Prioritisation: Strategic Roadmaps for Success Any business leader will tell you that executing projects on time and within budget while achieving the intended outcome is a giant feat for any organisation. Throw a global pandemic into the mix, which drove many organisations to turn inward and go full force into self-help mode, starting or maintaining long-term internal improvement initiatives in an already tumultuous business environment, and… Load More