It was a good kickoff of the new year, with more than 1,500 forward-looking directors and executives logging on to our January 7th webinar, Setting the 2016 Audit Committee Agenda. Hosted by Protiviti’s Brian Christensen and David Brand and me, the...
Archive - January 2016
“No Fraud Here?” Look Again, Says New Survey From Protiviti and Utica College
Nobody wants to believe that their company is losing significant revenue to fraud. And, understandably, organizations don’t want to spend scarce resources managing risks they don’t consider legitimate. With regulators and prosecutors increasingly...
A Farewell to Michael Oxley
Staunch champions of corporate governance and fair financial reporting lost a friend over the holidays with the passing of former U.S. Rep. Michael Oxley on January 1. The Ohio Republican, co-author, with Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes, of the...
2016 Finance Priorities: Forward, with Caution
Despite the signs of economic growth in 2015 – including the Federal Reserve’s recent decision to raise interest rates for the first time in almost a decade – U.S.-based companies are laying up stores against the potential of hard times, cutting...
