Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog LIBOR Transition: Preventing History From Repeating Itself The London Interbank Offer Rate, or LIBOR, which according to the New York Times is the “one number that arguably matters more than any other” in the world of finance, will no longer be the primary benchmark rate used by the financial services industry as of year-end 2021. In the 35 years since the financial markets began using LIBOR, firms across the financial services industry, including… Blog A Rise in Collaboration Between Internal Audit and IT Is a Welcome Trend In mid-October, Protiviti and ISACA released the 2019 Global IT Audit Benchmarking Study, for which we surveyed more than 2,200 internal audit (IA) executives and professionals around the world. We summarized the key findings of the survey in this post, and we discussed them at greater length during a recent webinar. In this post, I want to elaborate on one specific finding, which made the top… Blog RPA Deployments Remain Untapped Opportunities for Oil and Gas Companies Energy and utilities businesses, like many companies, can benefit from using robotic process automation (RPA) to drive efficiencies, boost speed to market and bolster financial performance. However, many of these firms — and oil and gas companies, in particular — have been slow to invest in RPA projects. While they are applying new technology and automation in the field, doing the same in back-… Blog BlackRock’s Larry Fink Draws Another Line in the Sand – The Message Is Getting Clearer On Jaunary 14, BlackRock’s Chairman and CEO Larry Fink issued his annual letter to public company chief executives. BlackRock is a global investment management company, the world's largest, with almost $7 trillion in assets under management as of September 2019. This year’s letter conveys several important messages that are worth noting by those responsible for corporate strategy setting, policy… Blog Next-Gen Internal Audit: What Do We Mean When We Talk About Agile Audit? As businesses focus on digital transformation for speed and service, they tend to put more emphasis on individuals and interactions than processes and tools. In the process, rigid hierarchical business processes are being replaced with collaboration, iterative processes and constant communication across the enterprise. These new methodologies are borrowed from software development, where they… Blog Make ESG Part of the Public Company Readiness Checklist — Your Valuation Could Depend on It The public company readiness checklist for any business working toward an initial public offering (IPO) is long and complicated. And now, there are signs in the marketplace that for many companies aiming for an IPO, this checklist may need to include an analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and reporting. Demonstrating meaningful effort and progress with ESG issues… Blog Agile Internal Audit: How to Audit at the Speed of Risk There's never been a better time to be an internal auditor. The internal audit profession is being asked to respond to an ever-increasing set of issues that reside in technology, compliance, culture, risk and other emerging hot topics. The ability for internal audit functions to remain relevant and address the needs of their clients is incumbent upon using new tools and techniques, including the… Blog The Future of Privacy Regulations: Coping With a Complex and Evolving Landscape Data privacy regulations are in flux, not only at the state and national level, but globally. Even as companies put the finishing touches on extensive preparations to comply with the European Union’s landmark GDPR law, new laws were introduced in the U.S. states of California, Vermont, Nevada, and Maine. While new laws are being passed, those in effect are already being amended. There is… Blog Pre-IPO Companies – Put Your Vendors’ SOC Reports on Your 2020 Reading List For public companies, collecting service organization control (SOC) reports is one of the important activities as of the end of their fiscal year. Companies that have not yet gone public but are considering it are advised to request these reports as part of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) internal control analysis, and review them for any exceptions or deficiencies, to avoid potential audit problems down… Blog COVID-19: Is Your Business Immunized Against Supply Chain Disruption? Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which emerged in central China in late 2019, had spread to 144 countries by March 15, infecting over 124,800 people. More than 6,500 deaths have been linked to the virus. And there are concerns that the pandemic, which has also disrupted manufacturing operations and supply chains around the world — not to mention caused one of the steepest declines on record… Load More
