Legal and compliance teams at technology companies are under significant pressure to bolster their organizations’ compliance capabilities, refresh privacy programs, and identify and mitigate increased areas of risk...
Archive - September 2021
5 New Responsibilities for the Beyond-Finance CFO
For years, pioneering CFOs steadily extended their duties beyond the boundaries of the traditional finance and accounting function. Over the past year, an expanding set of beyond-finance activities – including those...
FFIEC’s Updated Guidance for Authentication and Access in the Age of Expanded Financial Services
The only constant is change – and no industry understands this better than the financial services industry as it navigates risk in today’s cyber environment. Rapid expansion of new technologies and evolving business...
Where Is Your Company on the ESG Reporting Continuum?
The objective of sustainable development is to extend the life expectancy of ecosystems, societies and economies through collaboration with other organizations — for profit and not-for-profit, in the private and public...
To Fight Fraud, Waste and Abuse, Healthcare Providers Should Elevate Their Technology Game
It took almost no time for fraud, waste and abuse in the healthcare industry to become an epidemic of its own against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unscrupulous individuals looking to profit from the public...
For Manufacturing and Distribution Companies, Post-COVID Return to Business Is a Timely Opportunity to Optimize Facilities Management
The onset of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns that shut down business across the globe forced organizations to quickly adapt to a new reality. But it also allowed companies to view their operations from a new, albeit...
CFOs and Finance Leaders Face Growing Responsibilities, Including ESG Reporting, According to New Protiviti Survey
Organizations look to CFOs and VPs of finance for additional actions and data that, until recently, were considered outside their purview. Results from a just released Protiviti Finance Trends Survey reveal that these...
Podcast: Today’s Challenges and Trends for Utilities
Like organizations in virtually every industry today, utilities are addressing a number of critical challenges and trends in the market, from infrastructure demands, to calls to improve the customer experience, to...
Achieve Diversity or Explain Yourself: SEC Adopts Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule
On August 6, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved Nasdaq’s proposal to hold companies listed on the exchange accountable for board diversity. The new Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule sets a baseline...
On Risky Women Radio: Workplace Transformation and the Future of Audit
As the host of a recent episode on Risky Women Radio, a podcast series, I had the pleasure to speak with Sophie Krynauw, Director of Transformation at Zurich Insurance company. Ms. Krynauw is responsible for designing...