Last month, in an effort to improve audit quality and provide transparency into the inspections process, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) released a report drawing on conversations with nearly 400...
Archive - January 2020
Getting Ready for the Threat of Cyber Warfare
The following is excerpted from a Protiviti Flash Report issued on January 7, 2020. (link) On January 4, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) bulletin...
RPA Offers a Fast and Cost-Effective Way to Automate Account Reconciliations
Seventy-three percent of chief financial officers are looking to new technologies as ways to streamline processes and add value to their organizations, according to Protiviti’s 2019 Finance Trends survey. There are many...
Artificial Intelligence and Internal Audit: A Pragmatic Perspective
Companies have high hopes for transformational technologies, especially those that leverage the vast amount of data being collected. Approaches using methods such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML)...