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    “No Fraud Here?” Look Again, Says New Survey From Protiviti and Utica College
    Nobody wants to believe that their company is losing significant revenue to fraud. And, understandably, organizations don’t want to spend scarce resources managing risks they don’t consider legitimate. With regulators and prosecutors increasingly holding executives accountable for fraud prevention, however, there’s a strong incentive to replace the old refrain of “no fraud here” with the more…
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    It’s That Time of Year: The 2016 Audit Committee Agenda
    It was a good kickoff of the new year, with more than 1,500 forward-looking directors and executives logging on to our January 7th webinar, Setting the 2016 Audit Committee Agenda. Hosted by Protiviti’s Brian Christensen and David Brand and me, the webinar was based on our latest issue of The Bulletin, which I’ve tweeted about, but have not previously addressed here. Given the high…
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    Your SharePoint Investment: Don’t Leave It to Chance
    If your organization is like most, you probably have at least one installation of SharePoint. Chances are, it’s running your intranet, or maybe a document sharing system. Maybe users love it. Maybe they don’t. Perhaps you could be getting a better return on your investment. If your organization is like most, you have no way of knowing. We know this, because you told us. According to the results…
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    Watch What You Say: Auditing Cybersecurity Disclosures
    In the face of ongoing, persistent and ever-more dramatic data breaches, corporate assurances to the security of information are rightfully met with investor and regulatory skepticism. And while companies have rushed to inoculate themselves against potential damage by purchasing cyber insurance, regulators – and insurers – are reviewing published cybersecurity disclosures carefully to determine…
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    FAST Act Paves the Road for Streamlining IPOs
    Good news for small companies considering an IPO. On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (the FAST Act). Aside from directing transportation spending, this act includes provisions relevant to startup companies and companies seeking to pursue the IPO path. Below, I’ve outlined the major ways in which this act affects so-called “emerging growth…
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    2016 Audit Committee Agenda Webinar Q & A (Part 1)
    Our January 7 webinar, The 2016 Audit Committee Agenda, based on our latest issue of The Bulletin, drew more than 1,500 participants. The audience was diverse and included a large number of directors and executives, so it’s not surprising that a lot of interesting and relevant questions were asked. We promised we would get to as many questions as we could but, due to our time constraints, we…
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    2016 Audit Committee Agenda Webinar Q & A (Part 2)
    We are continuing our Q&A series stemming from our January 7 webinar on the 2016 Audit Committee Agenda. We’ve been exploring audit committee priorities for 2016, based on the findings published in the latest issue of The Bulletin. This four-part Q&A blog series provides our responses to some of the many interesting questions from our 1,500 webinar participants that we were unable to…
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    2016 Audit Committee Agenda Webinar Q & A (Part 3)
    We are picking up our previous discussion of audit committee priorities as we continue to answer your questions from our popular January 7 webinar, The 2016 Audit Committee Agenda. This blog series answers questions we were unable to address during the webinar. In our first installment, we addressed questions regarding the relationship between the audit committee and independent auditors, new…
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    2016 Audit Committee Agenda Webinar Q & A (Part 4)
    We are wrapping up our series of blog posts based on our popular January 7 webinar on the 2016 Audit Committee Agenda. This series answers some of the questions we were unable to address during the webinar. In our first installment, we touched on the relationship between the audit committee and independent auditors, new rules on lease accounting and board-level engagement with cybersecurity…
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    Arriving at Internal Audit's Tipping Point Amid Business Transformation
    Protiviti just released its 2016 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey, the 10th year we have conducted this insightful study on internal audit priorities and trends. We'll cover many aspects of this study and the results in future blog posts. For now, I invite you to view our video and infographic, and visit our website to learn more and read our report.     [wpvideo…
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