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    What Do Thriving Organizations Have in Common? Business Agility
    The Digital Age is forcing businesses to seek new ways to avoid falling behind and better serve their customers. Business agility enables organizations to respond quickly to market changes and employee or customer demands without compromising quality. Traditional hierarchical siloed methods no longer work in this environment. Companies seeking speed, innovation and greater customer focus have…
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    4 Key Areas of Focus for CFOs to Enhance Talent and Workforce Management
    The long-term talent crunch and “great resignation” that the pandemic only exacerbated require CFOs and their executive colleagues to ensure business and workforce management strategies operate in lockstep. The vast majority of workforces demonstrated unparalleled resilience and flexibility during the global pandemic. The most valuable organizational asset—people—shined while executing a massive…
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    Amplify Customer Experience to Propel Next-Level Growth
    In today’s rapidly evolving business world, the lines between technology and business have blurred. Organizations need to modernize and transform their technology to compete successfully. CIOs play a critical role in transforming the world of work using automation and technology – but they can’t do it alone. Collaboration among the C-suite is critical. In this blog series, Protiviti’s Technology…
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    Finding Equilibrium: Transformative Regulations Create More Hurdles for TMT Companies
    Whether due to poor data privacy protections, weak cybersecurity controls and oversight, or anticompetitive behavior, the financial and reputational costs for noncompliance with regulations continue to rise, with governments more determined than ever to make violating the law as painful as possible to companies’ bottom lines. This aggressive enforcement approach is particularly acute in the…
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    New Protiviti SOX Compliance Research: Rising Costs, Labor Shortages and Other Post-Pandemic Challenges Necessitate Change
    Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs and hours continue to rise, but there are significant opportunities to make measurable, meaningful changes in the form of technology, automation and alternate sourcing strategies. Protiviti’s annual SOX Compliance Survey benchmarks compliance costs, hours, processes and improvements, including how these areas are affected by current business conditions. This year’…
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    3 Foundational Steps to Help CFOs and Their Companies Get the Upper Hand on Managing ESG Data
    Most public companies have made strides to provide meaningful environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting to their stakeholders. However, even these leaders are concerned about complying with new proposed regulations from the SEC, which would require public companies to disclose extensive climate-related information in their SEC filings. CFOs are feeling particular pressure from this…
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    Four Steps to Keeping SAP’s Financial Processes Compliant: Step 1
    Step 1: Analyze SAP configuration and processes Protiviti has identified four key steps that organizations can take to improve their overall control environment and receive the benefits mentioned below. Each of these steps will be a focus in this four-part blog series. Too many organizations perform their financial and operational processes using inefficient manual controls, paper-based…
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    Risk and the Board of Directors: From Bordeaux to Today, What’s Old Is New
    On January 25, 2022, Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), on his YouTube channel “Office Hours with Gary Gensler,” explained that the world’s first hack (of securities, no less!) was committed in 1834 by two brothers from Bordeaux, France: François and Joseph Blanc bribed telegraph operators to tip them off as to the direction the market was heading (…
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    “Digital Fabric” and “Presence” Will Be Core to the Future of Work, Says Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of Modern Work
    The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated several trends that were already in motion, including digital transformation and remote work. Looking ahead, how can companies take their “working from anywhere” successes to the next level and create a work environment where everyone can collaborate seamlessly, regardless of where they’re located physically — or in a time continuum? It requires an “underlying…
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    SEC Issues Proposed Rules for Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures
    The SEC issued proposed rules that would require reporting companies to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures contained in registration statements and periodic reports, such as Form 10-K. These rules have been anticipated for quite some time. In this Flash Report, we summarize the SEC’s proposed rules, including timing for compliance should they go into effect this year, and…
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