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    GameStop Saga Exposes Trading Flaws, Reveals Huge Opportunity for a “Disruptor”
    The January 2021 trading frenzy surrounding GameStop and other meme stocks was driven by the collective mob mentality of people on a social media channel – not by Wall Street-aligned firms or a substantive news event. People with online monikers like “Roaring Kitty” and “BowlerGuy92” tried to take on Wall Street, and, in the end, showed the collective power that distributed investing can have on…
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    Consumer Products and Services Executives Identify Pandemic Policies, Market Conditions and Talent Shortage Among Top Risk Issues for 2021 and Beyond
    The results of the 2021 Top Risks Survey from Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative reflect equally the unprecedented challenges and opportunities facing the consumer products and services (CP&S) industry as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the results show many CP&S executives are worried about a mix of macroeconomic, strategic and operational risks impacting…
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    Transition Service Agreements: Early Planning Avoids These 10 Common Pitfalls
    Divestitures and carve-outs are a big change for an organization and can bring a great amount of disruption to its operations. During this disruptive period, transition service agreements (TSAs) – temporary agreements to continue to provide services to the carved-out organization until it is up to speed on its own – typically serve as the focal point of divestiture planning, bringing both…
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    TMT Executives Identify Pandemic Policies, Cyber Threats and Data Privacy Among Top Risk Issues for 2021 and Beyond
    Even with COVID-19 cases plummeting and vaccinations ramping up, many organizations worry about aggressive actions by the government to stem the virus and its new variants. Operational challenges posed by the lingering impacts of the pandemic remains a top concern identified by technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industry group directors and executives in the ninth annual top risk…
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    On Risky Women “Radio”: Robots, Resilience and Risk Management
    “Be bold, be confident and trust your gut. Embrace everything that comes your way with full gusto.” This is the advice that Lucy Pearman, Managing Director and Global Lead of Protiviti’s TRANSFORM Risk and Compliance practice, says she would give to her younger self if she could. In a conversation with Kimberley Cole, founder of Risky Women, a global network connecting, celebrating and…
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    The Complexities of Rapidly Evolving Wage Law: Act Now to Mitigate Your Risk
    No organisation wants to be headline news for underpaying its employees. However, many businesses are being publicly ostracised for violating enterprise agreements (EAs) in Australia. Not only are EAs incredibly complicated, wage law is also evolving rapidly, with Victoria and Queensland passing legislation in 2020. Unfortunately, rapid changes and complex EAs coupled with a shortfall in fully…
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    Trends in Credit Reserves Reflect Economic Optimism
    Many financial institutions reacted quickly in March 2020 to bolster credit loss reserves and incorporate anticipated near-term and longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on loss reserve estimates. This came on the heels of adopting one of the most significant accounting changes for financial institutions in decades, the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) accounting standard. The CECL…
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    An Approach to Measuring the Value of Human Capital
    Stakeholders have long believed that effective assessments of a company’s performance and prospects require solid information on workforce costs and productivity, on how employees are hired, developed and managed, and other human capital factors. Agencies, governing bodies and investors have recently exerted pressure on a number of authorities worldwide to ensure more human capital information is…
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    Protiviti Advisory Board on Pandemic Lessons Learned and the Path to a “Better Normal” – A Virtual Event Recap
    One afternoon last week, Protiviti President and CEO Joe Tarantino welcomed more than 130 clients and friends of the firm to spend an afternoon with the members of Protiviti’s Advisory Board: Peter Henry, Fran Townsend, Evelyn Dilsaver and Susan Molinari. The afternoon included a panel discussion with all the Advisory Board members followed by fireside chats with individual members of the board.…
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    Internal Controls Planning as Organizations Contemplate a Return to the Office
    2020 was certainly a year for change in so many ways, not the least of which was companies adapting their internal controls to the stay-at-home orders resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as many are considering bringing people back to the office at least part time, the internal controls environment is up for yet another change. Protiviti’s SOX Champions Network, a global network of…
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