Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog APAC ACAMS Conference Focuses on Technology, Talent, Collaboration – Listen to the Podcast Last month, Protiviti sponsored and participated as a panelist at the 11th Annual APAC ACAMS Conference, which took place on April 8-9 in Singapore. Carol Beaumier is a Senior Managing Director with Protiviti. She oversees the Protiviti Asia-Pacific Financial Services practice, and attended the conference along with Nigel Robinson, Managing Director and Singapore Country Market Lead, and Ronita… Blog Flash Report: PCAOB 2018 Inspection Observations In 2018, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspected over 160 audit firms and reviewed portions of roughly 700 public company audits in the United States and abroad. On May 6, the PCAOB published its Staff Preview of 2018 Inspection Observations. Although the publication is aimed at external auditors, it provides important insights for organizations preparing for audits.… Blog 2019 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey – Destination: Transformation Chief audit executives (CAEs) worry that their internal audit functions lack the tools and skills to help their companies compete with “born-digital” newcomers. Most say they are taking steps to fix this. But innovation and transformation requires more than just a series of discrete activities. Next generation internal audit requires a fundamental rethinking of the design and capabilities of… Blog SIFMA Ops Conference: Themes and Takeaways. Listen to the Podcast. Earlier in May, Protiviti Managing Director Douglas Wilbert attended the SIFMA Operation Conference and Exhibition in Boca Raton, FL. We share a brief podcast with highlights from the event. Full transcript below. SIFMA Ops Conference Podcast [transcript] Kevin Donahue: Hi, this is Kevin Donahue with the Protiviti Marketing Group. I’m pleased to be talking today with Douglas Wilbert… Blog How Emerging Technology Companies Can Win the War for Talent In the technology industry, the competition for talent is fierce, and there is no letup in sight. Protiviti’s survey, The Top Risks for 2019, identifies the “talent crunch” as one of the three top risks for technology companies today and for the foreseeable future. A 2019 Gartner study concurs, finding that concerns about talent shortages now outweigh those about accelerating privacy… Blog Following Through on the Audit Committee Agenda for 2019: Financial Reporting In the beginning of the year, Protiviti published our annual audit committee agenda recommendations for 2019, summarized in an earlier post by Protiviti Managing Director (and blog host) Jim DeLoach. There is an ever-growing variety of issues of which audit committees need to stay abreast these days. At its core, however, the function of the committee remains the same: to ensure the integrity… Blog Advanced Data Mining Technologies and AI Can Aid Firms’ Transition from LIBOR to Alternative Risk-Free Rates As the financial markets prepare for potential disruptions from the phasing out of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and selection and implementation of alternative risk-free rates (RFR) by the end of 2021, financial institutions are seeking creative solutions to help manage the anticipated workload and transition risks. On a macro level, institutions currently have myriad concerns… Blog Who Is Watching the Bots? Part 1 – RPA Governance Just as a civil society relies on the rule of law, robotic process automation (RPA) at scale requires good governance to enable success while helping to mitigate associated risks. In this post, the first of two highlighting key points from our recent RPA webcast, we look at some elements of good RPA governance. Governance – the establishment of polices, and the implementation and monitoring of… Blog Compliance 2.0: Transforming SOX Practices With Technology Organizations have been getting better and more efficient at Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance practices for the past 17 years since SOX was implemented. Nonetheless, with control counts rising and external auditor expectations increasing, compliance hours are growing, too. The results of Protiviti’s 2019 Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey suggest that while a reduction in hours is still possible,… Blog RPA or AI? To Achieve Most Automation Goals, You Need Both Discussions of robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) tend to follow separate tracks. This has been a function of the way these technologies have been marketed and sold. This is changing as companies realize that both RPA and AI are required to achieve any significant degree of end-to-end process automation. For example, even a company that is not ready to delegate… Load More
