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    Avoiding “IoT Inertia” in the Oil and Gas Sector Requires an IoT Strategy
    To understand how the practical application of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can potentially transform traditional operations and create value for businesses, just look to the oil and gas sector. Digitalization of oil fields began in the industry years ago. And now that sensors are more affordable, even small and midsize companies have the ability to track, in real time, data generated…
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    2017 VRM Study: De-Risking Amid Cybersecurity Concerns
    Four years into a regulatory push to improve vendor risk management, organizations across industries are getting smarter about who they work with and how they are working with them. The rate of improvement, however, may not be fast enough to keep up with the accelerating challenges of the external risk and regulatory environment, according to the 2017 Vendor Risk Management Benchmark Study from…
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    Beyond Cost Savings: Driving Long-Term Value With Supplier Relationship Management
    Certain supplier relationships can be restraining – a supplier with whom negotiations are challenging and the ability to leverage volume or spend is limited, for example. Then, the question is “Without traditional leverage or any apparent substitute suppliers, how can procurement continue to drive value for the organization?” In many cases, the answer is to focus on longer-term supplier…
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    Setting the Audit Committee Agenda for 2018
    With new accounting standards, audit quality pressures from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and uncertainty in the business and regulatory environment, many audit committee members I talk to say they feel tasked to the limit. This is not new. Stretched audit committees is a common phenomenon, and has been for years. When planning the agenda for the upcoming year, it’s easy…
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    Can Digital Mortgages Connect You to Millennials? Find Out in the Latest Compliance Insights Podcast
    Digital mortgages, clarifications on Russian sanctions under CAATSA, and more guidance on the new FASB lease accounting standard are the topics in the December issue of Compliance Insights. Listen to our podcast below for a discussion of two of these topics by Protiviti Managing Directors Steven Stachowicz and Rob Gould, and download the full issue to peruse all stories at length. [audio mp3="…
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    Partnering for CAE Success: Building the Audit Committee Relationship
    There’s a lot of talk these days about what’s important for CAEs to be doing and why. It’s always useful to exchange sound practical advice on how to do what needs to be done. So it was gratifying for me to be participate in a recent MIS Training Institute Masters Program dedicated to providing real world solutions through peer-to-peer discussion on many of the issues raised by audit committee…
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    SEC Clarifies Revenue and Lease Deadlines for Private Entities Included in Public Filings
    With transition deadlines fast approaching on new revenue recognition and lease accounting rules from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opted to clarify some confusion among certain private businesses regarding their specific deadlines for the new standard. One specific area that was unclear was the deadline for private companies…
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    GDPR: Strict New EU Data Privacy Rules Have Global Reach
    European regulators are giving individuals new rights to control how their personal data is used. A new law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), scheduled to become effective May 25, 2018, is the most important change in data regulation to come from European Union (EU) regulators in 20 years. It introduces strict new rules for the protection of the personal data of EU citizens, and…
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    AI in AML, Consumer Protection Developments Discussed in Protiviti's Latest Compliance Insights Podcast (Now Available)
    Christine Bucy of Protiviti's Risk and Compliance practice joins Steven Stachowicz in this latest podcast to discuss the next frontier in  AML compliance — artificial intelligence. Also hear Steven's take on the latest in consumer protection activity from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This discussion is in addition to what you'll find in the complete July issue of Compliance…
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    Internal Audit’s Role Will Be Key in the GDPR Journey
    Over the next nine months, organizations will spend billions of dollars to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR — a European data protection and privacy regulation with the potential to be as disruptive to companies that conduct any kind of personal data exchange with the EU as the financial reforms created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act were back in 2002. For starters, it is…
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