As the IPO Market Continues to Heat Up, Building Out the FP&A Function Takes on Renewed Urgency
Today’s fast-paced IPO market requires financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams to deliver top-notch budgeting, forecasting and analytical expertise within a shorter period of time. While building out the FP&A function has always been a key aspect of the infrastructure development and preparation for portfolio companies going public, it is even more crucial to develop […]
The SEC’s Technology Modernization Is Accelerating — Are You Ready?
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is catching up on the advanced technology front. For CFOs at public reporting companies as well as those with pre-public organizations and companies with close ties to public companies, these developments bear monitoring. Reflexively, seasoned CFOs may assert that the SEC is always playing catch-up when it comes […]
Can Internal Audit Help Build Business Resilience? Protiviti Shares Stories of Persistence, Agility and Going Beyond Limits to Do That, in the Latest “Internal Auditing Around the World”
What do Booking Holdings, Centene Corporation, DBS Bank, GlobalFoundries, Grupo Bepensa, Inchcape, Standard Chartered and TrueBlue have in common? All these companies have internal audit departments that have taken on a mission of helping their organizations overcome pandemic-caused challenges and become more resilient by embracing next-generation internal audit technologies, tools and methodologies. In the just-released […]
Data and Analytics Can Help Hospitality Firms Combat Expected Tick-Up in Fraud and Human Trafficking
The hospitality, leisure and travel industry found an unusual, albeit temporal, respite from human trafficking and certain fraud incidences during the peak of the pandemic, but this limited reprieve is quickly fading as business activity returns to normal. For a while, as hotel occupancy rates declined, flights, major sports and social events were canceled, and […]
Extraterritorial: The AML Act of 2020 Drastically Expands the Give-and-Take of Global Information Sharing
The Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Act of 2020, passed by the United States Congress on January 1, 2021, included two important provisions related to expectations for extraterritorial information sharing, which represent an expansion in policies around movement of AML records into and out of the United States. The first provision is the formal extension of subpoena […]
A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity to Transform the Energy Industry
The American Jobs Plan (AJP) represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the energy industry in the United States — with potentially a great deal of financial support from the federal government. As the Biden administration explains, the AJP “will invest in America in a way we have not invested since we built the interstate highways […]
