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  • Newsletter

    September 29, 2023
    In our latest issue of Private Equity Insights, we offer Protiviti’s latest thinking on ESG issues – specifically, assessing sustainability through an investment and value creation lens. We offer further thoughts on AI (including generative AI) from the board’s and the CFO’s point of view, and we bring the general counsel into the mix through an informative discussion on building legal operations…
  • Client Story

    May 12, 2022
    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.
  • Blogs

    June 3, 2022
    While no one knows how long the pandemic will last, we do know that all organisations will experience some economic impact. Quarantines and the shutdown of many companies and local businesses during this crisis have put a large financial strain on almost every organisation in every industry. As we move beyond the immediate need to ensure the health and safety or employees, organisations need to…
  • Client Story

    July 19, 2023
    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.
  • Podcast Transcript

    October 5, 2022
    In coding, libraries make developers’ lives easier, sparing them thousands of lines of code, while also increasing performance and security. And everyone’s concerned with security as fault-tolerant quantum computing approaches. Geometry Labs has released the “lattice-algebra” library to bring a high-performance cryptographic library to developers interested in using post-quantum cryptography in…
  • Whitepaper

    March 25, 2025
    Global Internal Audit Standards require that a charter specify the internal audit function’s organizational 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…
  • Client Story

    June 25, 2019
    FASB’s new lease accounting guidance (ASC Topic 842), issued on February 25, 2016, requires organizations to recognize lease assets and liabilities on the balance sheet and disclose key information on lease transactions. For most companies with leased assets, the change significantly affects financial reporting. Companies must obtain key information through lease abstraction and populate a data…
  • Client Story

    April 9, 2021
    Data privacy has become a strategic priority as companies adapt to comply with rapidly proliferating data privacy laws. Recent years have seen the adoption of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the more recent California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), and similar regulations. These safeguards require companies to document the types of protected personal data used in…
  • Podcast

    March 12, 2022
    The past two years have seen unprecedented levels of innovation and transformation among organizations worldwide as they have pivoted and adapted in response to a historic global pandemic. Innovation and transformation are now mainstays in ensuring businesses stay relevant and competitive. This unquestionably is a mindset that CAEs and their internal audit teams must adopt – and many have.
  • Insights paper

    November 27, 2024
    Due in large part to the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), organizations of all types and sizes are implementing, or considering adopting, AI for various business functions and activities — from accounting and finance to cybersecurity, customer experience and more.Protiviti has conducted several global research studies looking at the various ways enterprises are leveraging AI as…
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