Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Survey October 1, 2024 Cost Optimisation Is a Top CFO Priority, but Some Finance Groups Fall Short Explore how CFOs prioritise cost optimisation in financial strategies for enhanced revenue and resilience, according to our survey. Client Story June 7, 2023 Resource backfill, technology and process change drive state procurement improvements Many institutions in the public sector are faced with improving the efficiency and responsiveness of their services and operations to better serve stakeholders and the public. High turnover and lengthy recruiting cycles are creating both a loss of tribal knowledge and an influx of inexperienced resources, leading to significant delays in day-to-day operations. Our client, a state procurement… Whitepaper December 21, 2022 Software Company CFOs Discuss Risks, Budgeting and Talent Issues Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) wachstumsstarker Softwareunternehmen trafen sich virtuell, um Themen von gemeinsamem Interesse zu diskutieren, darunter Top-Risiken, führende Branchenpraktiken und Trends. Die Tagesordnung dieses Treffens im kleinen Kreis, das nach der Chatham-House-Regel stattfand Survey December 17, 2024 2024 Consumer Goods and Retail Finance Priorities In this year’s survey, the finance leaders ranked financial planning and profitability analysis and reporting, strategic planning, routine reporting and closing activities, security and privacy of data, and process improvement as their top five priorities for the next 12 months. Podcast September 10, 2024 Podcast | Transform: Assessing CFO and finance leader perspectives and priorities for the coming year – with Chris Wright and Nick Puetz A look at the top priorities for CFOs and finance leaders in the coming year — among them, security and privacy of data, financial and strategic planning and analysis, leadership, and enhanced data analytics — reveals a tale of transformation for CFOs whose responsibilities continue to widen. Newsletter November 29, 2023 Assessment Questions for Audit Committees to Consider As they self-assess their performance periodically, audit committees may find useful the illustrative questions we have made available in our Assessment Questions for Audit Committees to Consider. Committee members should periodically assess the committee’s composition, charter and agenda focus in view of the company’s industry, circumstances, risks, financial reporting issues and current… Whitepaper February 18, 2021 Architecting Your Cloud Infrastructure for Failure (and Resilience) Companies aggressively moved to the public cloud in 2020, driven in part by the pandemic and the shift to a remote workforce. That pace is expected to accelerate in 2021, as more and more companies move applications and data to the cloud to achieve the benefits that have been touted for years, including cost savings, flexibility and on-demand scalability. It would be a challenge for an individual… Whitepaper December 17, 2024 Methodology and Statistical Requirements of A Risk Culture Assessment The following paper focuses on the different possibilities and procedures of developing a risk culture assessment and therefore, on the last level of Figure 1 “Measurement & Controlling”. Here, we present a psychological approach due to the unobjective nature of risk culture. The paper addresses primarily banks and financial stability institutes since their business model includes the… Video June 23, 2023 Video | The Countdown to DSA Compliance A new and dramatic approach to regulating big technology firms is coming into force across the European Union. The Digital Services Act (DSA), which the European Council signed into law on September 15, 2022, aims to protect the digital space against the spread of illegal content, particularly on social networks, content sharing platforms and e-commerce sites. The countdown has begun for… Podcast April 5, 2022 PODCAST | People, Technologies and the Future of Work in Finance “It's the end of the work as we know it, and I feel fine.”Our colleague Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti (http://vision.protiviti.com), wrote this in his latest feature article. This is true, but there also are many questions around the future of work, how we're going to balance work schedules, when and how frequently we’ll go into the office, how we’ll leverage new and emerging… Load More