Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Survey April 17, 2025 Risk insights for finance teams If the first few months of 2025 are any indication, navigating risk-strewn near-term and long-term risk environments will be difficult. In this regard, the chief financial officers (CFOs) broad exposure to macroeconomic and strategic risks as well as finance-focused operational challenges is valuable. As finance leaders develop and update strategic roadmaps amid global uncertainty, it is helpful… Podcast October 16, 2024 Podcast | DARPA’s Quantum Proving Ground — with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Quantum information science deals with the world of the very small, sure, but imagine 128 acres of land devoted to advancing QIS. Now imagine this mega complex in a major city! The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park is expected to draw leading companies and researchers to Chicago, and DARPA is already playing a significant role. Find out what this will mean for advancing the industry and… Podcast June 25, 2025 Podcast | ML-KEM Cocreator Unlocks Lattice-Based Cryptography — with Joppe Bos When NIST released the first post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024, it set off a domino effect that will hopefully result in protecting the world from the quantum computing threat. Now that we’re beginning to migrate and trust our data to lattice-based cryptography, it’s a good time to examine how ML-KEM works and get some hints about how to implement it well. And who better to ask… Insights paper October 1, 2025 Strengthening decision-making with OSFI’s E-23 Model Risk Management Guideline The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) has taken a pivotal step forward with its E-23 Model Risk Management Guideline, underscoring the importance of robust governance, validation and monitoring frameworks to mitigate risks associated with the use of models across various domains. OSFI first published the guideline in 2017, and the final draft, published on September 11… Podcast September 22, 2025 FPS Podcast | CMMC Rule is Out - What Contractors Must Know With DOD Contracts On September 10th, 2025 the "CMMC Final Rule" was published in CFR48. After about seven years of starts and stops, determining Level classifications, the number of controls and compliance needed, CMMC certification is now set to be in certain DOD contracts starting November 10th. Cost of compliance has varied greatly, but when dealing with FCI and CUI data, this certification will protect that… Client Story May 12, 2022 A National Retailer Takes on Inventory Shrink to Improve Margins Protiviti created a transparent end-to-end process flow by identifying gaps and providing recommendations for improvement and savings. A data deep dive reviewed elements of sales, markdowns and shrink data and a statistical analyses of shrink, damages and manual markdowns provided a total loss calculation. Client Story July 19, 2023 Finance Transformation Sets Course for Future Success A U.S.-based global skincare company was unable to provide timely financial reporting and performance analytics to its key stakeholders and private equity sponsor. Protiviti partnered with the company’s CFO, VP of Finance, Controller, and key stakeholders to assess and redesign the book close, reporting, and forecasting processes. Whitepaper March 25, 2025 Internal Audit Benchmarking Trends in Healthcare Global Internal Audit Standards require that a charter specify the internal audit function’s organisational position and reporting relationships and describe administrative reporting responsibilities, such as the process for approving human resources administration and budgets. Leaders can use benchmarking comparisons to gauge the alignment of their strategy, structure, responsibilities, and… Whitepaper July 13, 2023 Revenue Integrity: Leveraging Data to Enhance Collaboration Across the Revenue Cycle In today’s complex healthcare environment, hospitals and health systems and other provider organizations have little room for error within the revenue cycle. Faced with tight margins, growing labor and supply costs, and volatile markets, every dollar counts. Revenue integrity ensures all patient encounters are accurately converted into revenue in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Survey April 17, 2025 Private equity risk insights According to findings from Protiviti’s latest Top Risks survey, executives and board members from PE firms and their portfolio companies are facing several complex and interconnected risks — operational, macroeconomic and strategic — that could derail their value-creation efforts. In addition to economic-related worries, cyber threats rank as a top risk issue for this industry group, and with… Load More