Results for “Finance Trends Survey” Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog January 11, 2017 IT Innovation: Does Your IT Budget Have Room for It? One of the budget struggles chief information officers are continually faced with is reducing operating costs to make room for innovation. And while several studies, including our own, show that they have succeeded in bringing down “lights on” expenditures over the past decade or so, in many cases those savings have been absorbed by urgent non-strategic needs, such as compliance and security, too… Blog March 8, 2022 How CFOs Can Solve The Inflation Puzzle As concerns over the rise of economic inflation escalate, a stark reality emerges: There are legions of executives—even board members—who have never had to cope with persistent inflation. A rare environment of this kind presents a unique opportunity for leading CFOs to elevate scenario planning activities and other next-generation finance capabilities with the objective of contributing an… Blog July 28, 2022 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Its Legacy Looking Back and Impact Going Forward Twenty years ago, the effects of the Enron era were enormous. Confidence in the capital markets and in financial reporting and corporate governance in general had deteriorated to a dangerously low level. Shareholder losses were staggering. People’s life savings were lost. The corporate frauds and abuses were numerous and egregious. The web of culpability cast a wide net. The blame game was in… Blog August 10, 2016 Internal Audit and the Internet of Things Depending on whom you ask, the business disruptor known as the Internet of Things (IoT) is either the launch pad for an indispensable digital future, or a Pandora’s box of unfathomable risks that have only begun to present themselves. Either way, that’s a lot to lay on a technology trend that only 13 percent of consumers had even heard of, as recently as 2014. As with most disruptive change that… Whitepaper April 28, 2022 Agile Risk Management - Navigating Changing Dynamics Including results of Protiviti’s large financial institution survey on business control functions An organization’s overall risk governance framework and the resulting interaction across the three lines of defense are critical to business success. The first line’s main objective is to understand applicable risks and controls and ultimately drive growth through customer engagement. The second and… Blog January 8, 2021 SPACs Are Hot But Be Well Prepared – The SEC Is Watching The prevalence of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) has expanded dramatically over the past year as organizations capitalize on a more streamlined path to public ownership. But key steps still must be taken and regulatory requirements still must be observed to protect shareholders. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is watching, and SPAC sponsors need to be ready for… Blog April 16, 2018 Part 3: Lease Accounting: What’s Trending? A Report from GRC 2018 and Financials 2018 The 2018 GRC and Finance SAP Insider Conferences took place in mid-February in Las Vegas. Our SAP teams spent time attending conference sessions, and their observations on what’s trending across the industry are compiled here in a five-part series. In this part, we will be discussing the new Lease Accounting standards and how Nakisa, an SAP solution extension can help automate this process going… Whitepaper February 22, 2021 Changes to Accounting Standards Offer Transformational Opportunities for Insurers, with Extended Time to Implement Big changes are coming to how the insurance industry recognizes and reports out financial performance. But the effects won’t be felt just in the accounting department. IFRS 17, Insurance Contracts, and its U.S. companion, accounting standard ASU 2018-12, Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts, are intended to add clarity for investors in the wake of events and… Survey December 22, 2023 2024 Top Risks in the Financial Services Industry Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative have been conducting our Top Risks Survey for the past 12 years. This journey began just as financial markets around the world were starting their long, slow recovery from the global financial crisis, and has since covered the worst global pandemic in 100 years as well as near record-low interest rates followed shortly by the fastest rate hiking… Blog December 21, 2020 A Farewell to Paul Sarbanes Almost four years ago, I wrote a blog, “A Farewell to Michael Oxley,” paying tribute to the former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives who died on January 1, 2016. Today, it is fitting that we issue another farewell. On December 7, the family of Paul Sarbanes announced the death of the former Democratic senator the previous day. Together, these two men co-authored the landmark… Load More
