Culture

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Performer Profiles

Ahold Delhaize: Remodelling Internal Audit While the Store Is Open

Ahold Delhaize Chief Audit Executive Dimitrich Stopetie shares how he has revamped his internal audit team to become a s...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 19, 2022
Policies & Procedures

Company-Leased Vehicle Policy

This sample policy is designed to help organizations establish guidelines for the business use of company-leased vehicle...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 19, 2022
Articles

Attack Operational Inefficiencies to Align With Strategy and Optimize Costs

This article lists the issues created by a lack of process knowledge and efficiency and shares how organizations can opt...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 12, 2022
Audit Programs

Integrity and Ethical Values Audit Work Program

This audit program sample can be used by organizations to ensure a commitment to high ethical standards.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 12, 2022
Articles

Value Chain to Blockchain: AWS Energy Solutions Lead on Scope 3, “Data Obesity” and a Decarbonized Future

Protiviti sat down with Shy Muralidharan, worldwide energy solutions lead with Amazon Web Services, to discuss the futur...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 12, 2022
Articles

Sanctions Enforcement: A New Era

A look at the advances in sanctions enforcement in the U.S., the EU and the U.K. and how finance firms can reposition th...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 5, 2022
Process Flows

Termination Process Flow

This sample process flow can be used as a general guide to understanding and reviewing the steps in an organization’s te...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 5, 2022
Benchmarking Reports

Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2022 And 2031: Future of Work – The Defining Business Challenge of the Next Decade

This report contains critical short- and long-term considerations for boards and executives, based on the results of Pro...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 29, 2022
Newsletters

Finding Stability and Opportunity Amid Economic Uncertainty

This issue of Board Perspectives explains how directors and management can focus on the fundamentals during these intere...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 29, 2022
Articles

Australian Mayors Map Out a Post-COVID Plan for the Future of Their Cities

Four Australian mayors discuss emerging from COVID-19, lessons learned and how their cities could forever be impacted.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 8, 2022
Articles

Greg Lindsay on the Way We Live Next – Audio Transcript

A look at the evolution urban areas are undergoing post-COVID and how those changes will alter cities over the next deca...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 1, 2022
Process Flows

Voluntary Exit Process Flow

This sample process flow can be used as a general guide to understanding and reviewing the steps in an organization’s vo...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 1, 2022
Articles

Skyscrapers Circa 2030: What's Their Place in the Future City?

Here, we discuss the future of cities in 2030 and explore how skyscrapers are an important part of the conversation.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 18, 2022
Newsletters

Three Keys for CEOs: Relevance, Culture and Alignment

This issue of Board Perspectives explains three ways boards can be supportive in this era of unprecedented change.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 11, 2022
Newsletters

The Top Risks for the Next Decade: A Global Perspective (2022)

In this issue of Board Perspectives, we summarize seven key takeaways from our ninth annual risk survey and rank the hig...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 20, 2022
Articles

​The Russian Sanctions: A Catalyst for ESG?

A look at some of the key challenges across the ESG dimensions and how finance firms can shape a more robust and mature ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 20, 2022
Benchmarking Reports

Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2021 and 2030: Chief Audit Executive Results

This report recaps the top risks CAEs should keep in mind over the next decade, according to the results of Protiviti’s ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, May 30, 2022
Benchmarking Reports

2022 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey

The results of our latest Next-Generation Internal Audit Survey reveal that two out of three internal audit functions wo...
Subscriber Content
Mon, May 23, 2022
Benchmarking Reports

Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2021 and 2030: Private-Equity Owned Company Results

This report outlines the top risks PE-owned firms need to know moving forward, based on the results of Protiviti’s Execu...
Subscriber Content
Mon, May 23, 2022
Newsletters

The Top Risks for 2022: A Global Perspective

This issue of Board Perspectives summarizes eight key takeaways from the 2021 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks Survey...
Subscriber Content
Mon, May 23, 2022
Performer Profiles

TrueBlue Inc.: Focusing on Customer Service to Increase Versatility and Flexibility to Help Stay Resilient

TrueBlue Vice President of Internal Audit Angela Trelevin shares how her team has delivered a high level of employee eng...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 14, 2022
Newsletters

The Buffett Newspaper Test: What It Means and Why It Is Important

This issue of Board Perspectives explores how boards can focus employees on what the company stands for and reinforce ex...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 7, 2022
Methodologies & Models

Community Relations Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s community relations process and ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 21, 2022
Performer Profiles

Inchcape plc: Finding Reward in Resilience – Internal Audit as a Beacon for the Future

In this profile, Inchcape’s Group Head of Internal Audit Joanna Sheppard shares how her team’s overarching view of the o...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
Newsletters

Ransomware: Analyzing Risk and Protecting Critical Assets

In this issue of Board Perspectives, we provide four ways boards can respond strategically to ransomware exposures.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 13, 2021
Regulatory Updates

Developments at and During COP26: The Second Week

In this Flash Report, we summarize developments during the second week of the UN Climate Change Conference of the Partie...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 6, 2021
Newsletters

The World Is a Zoo: Framing Risks in the Boardroom

This issue of Board Perspectives identifies six key takeaways from a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 6, 2021
Performer Profiles

GlobalFoundries: A “Laser Focus” on Strengthening Business Resilience

In this profile, Cary Haggard, chief audit executive at GlobalFoundries, explains how his team has enhanced organization...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Nov 29, 2021
Articles

Building a Comprehensive Data Privacy Program

Protiviti offers advice on how companies can both formalize and improve data privacy practices, including a four-step ap...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Nov 1, 2021
Guides

Risk Culture Guide

This guide provides auditors with a comprehensive breakdown of the enterprise risk management (ERM) process and risk cul...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Nov 1, 2021
Benchmarking Tools

Human Resources Leading Practices

The leading practices included in this tool can be applied to improve an organization’s human resources function.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 25, 2021
Performer Profiles

DBS Bank: Using Data to Highlight Risks, Increase Resilience and Usher in the Future of Audit

In this profile, Derrick Goh, managing director and head of group audit at DBS, describes how data has helped his team b...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 18, 2021
Newsletters

Ransomware: Preventing an Attack and Responding to and Recovering From an Attack

This issue of The Bulletin focuses on the six components of cyber resilience and provides countermeasures businesses can...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 18, 2021
Guides

Internal Audit Contributing to the Success of Enterprise Risk Management Guide

In this tool, we’ve compiled a guide that defines internal audit’s role and the keys to success related to an organizati...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 4, 2021
Articles

Recharging Your Agile Transformation

This article, part five in a five-part series, explores how to determine preparedness for an agile transformation and ho...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 6, 2021
Newsletters

Lessons From the Pandemic: Crisis as a Catalyst for Innovation

This issue of Board Perspectives recaps a discussion from a recent NACD event on the significance of agility as an impor...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 30, 2021
Articles

Transforming Delivery Through Value Streams

Protiviti's Evan Campbell and Sofia Hansen discuss how organizations can achieve the benefits of value streams by implem...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 16, 2021
Regulatory Updates

Bogus Whistleblower Complaints Are Making the Rounds

This flash report serves to alert companies to a growing trend of disinformation making the rounds through well-written ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 9, 2021
Newsletters

Reimagining the Future Workplace: Ask the Right Questions to Move Forward

This issue of Board Perspectives poses 10 questions boards should ask themselves and management about the evolving workp...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 9, 2021
Articles

Skills and Scale — The New Finance Labor Model Proves Its Real-World Value

Here, we discuss the results of Protiviti's 2020 Finance Trends Survey and offer steps CFOs and finance leaders can take...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 2, 2021
Newsletters

The Future Workplace: Getting It Right

This issue of The Bulletin suggests four areas that will present important differentiators for success in articulating a...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 2, 2021
Protiviti Booklets

Internal Auditing Around the World: Volume 17

The new edition of Internal Auditing Around the World addresses how internal audit functions have become more adaptable ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 26, 2021
Articles

Seven Key Factors to a Successful PMO Transformation

Protiviti’s Joe Breithaupt and James Eick discuss the drivers behind PMO evolution and identify what factors a PMO must ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 19, 2021
Articles

Credit Balances and Government Overpayments

In this article, we provide guidance on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Final Rule governing the investi...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 28, 2021
Articles

The Future Auditor Faces the Digital Imperative

We outline why the adoption of next-generation best practices needs to be a priority for every internal audit organizati...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 28, 2021
Articles

From Unprecedented Disruption, an Optimistic Vision for the Future

Protiviti’s Brian Christensen takes a look at audit's next chapter, underscored by the insights shared by audit leaders ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Articles

Gone Phishing: Elaborate Scams Are on the Rise, Are You Smart Enough to Recognize Them?

Protiviti Managing Director Michael Lyons shares a personal experience with, and an in-depth analysis of, a sophisticate...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Articles

As Tech CFOs Escalate Return-to-Office Strategies, Opportunities to Innovate Abound

Here, we outline what the technology industry is doing to execute a safe and smooth return to the workplace.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 14, 2021
Benchmarking Reports

2021 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey

For most internal audit groups, the next-generation audit journey is just beginning. The results of our 2021 Internal Au...
Subscriber Content
Mon, May 31, 2021
Performer Profiles

SF Express: Digital Agile Audits Focus on Stakeholders’ Needs

Michael Lui, chief audit executive at SF Express, describes his team’s use of agile auditing to guide continuous innovat...
Subscriber Content
Mon, May 24, 2021
Benchmarking Reports

Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2021 and 2030

This report contains results from our ninth annual risk survey of directors and executives worldwide to obtain their vie...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Apr 19, 2021
Guides

Auditing Corporate Governance Guide

This tool contains two guides that can be used by auditors to assess and understand the four pillars of an organization’...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Apr 5, 2021
Articles

Post-Pandemic Real Estate Strategies: It Pays to Be Nimble

This article offers several work-from-home strategies organizations can use to remain agile in a post-COVID world.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Apr 5, 2021
Articles

Persevering and Prospering in the Time of COVID-19: Accounts Payable

In this article, we share three examples of how Protiviti’s managed business services teams recently overcame significan...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 29, 2021
Articles

The Critical Importance of Employee Well-Being in the Time of COVID-19

In this article, we offer some ideas for organizations looking to ensure the physical, emotional and social health of em...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 22, 2021
Articles

Furlough Planning: An Art and a Science Supported by Technology and Sound Change Management

This article outlines the benefits of furlough planning and provides questions senior leaders should consider as they sh...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 15, 2021
Performer Profiles

Olympus Corporation: ‘‘T’’ Is for Transformation ... and Team

In this profile, Richard Lebitz, global chief internal audit officer at Olympus, summarizes his internal audit team’s fi...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 15, 2021
Articles

Healthcare Internal Audit During a Pandemic — Going From React to Rethink

This article offers several approaches healthcare internal audit functions can use as they adapt and extend their capabi...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 8, 2021
Performer Profiles

Rabobank: An Appetite for Audit Innovation

In this profile, Rabobank Global Head of IT Risk and Continuity Management Klaas Leendert Leijendekker explains how his ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 8, 2021
Newsletters

Unleash the Power of Adhocracy in the Face of Emerging Risks

This issue of Board Perspectives offers six suggestions from an NACD report outlining how management can foster a risk-s...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 1, 2021
Checklists & Questionnaires

Compliance Overview Questionnaire

This tool contains 24 sample questionnaires that provide organizations with key risks, expected key controls and questio...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 22, 2021
Newsletters

Setting Sights on Digital Transformation and Innovation

This issue of Board Perspectives spotlights an NACD Master Class discussion about how boards and their companies can bes...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 22, 2021
Newsletters

Dispel the Myth of ‘‘Fit’’: Improve Diversity on Your Board

In this issue of Board Perspectives, we provide six suggestions for making demonstrable progress in improving diversity ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 15, 2021
Guides

Fraud Detection Guide

This tool includes three guides that provide standards and steps organizations can use for effective fraud detection.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 8, 2021
Performer Profiles

TopBuild Corp.: Installing an Analytics Champion

In this profile, TopBuild Director of Internal Audit and Chief Audit Executive Ninette Lewis shares how advanced analyti...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jan 25, 2021
Newsletters

10 ESG Reporting Questions Directors Should Consider

This issue of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight poses 10 questions boards should focus on to ensure sustainable and res...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jan 11, 2021
Performer Profiles

Lloyds Banking Group: Taking the Reins on Change to Drive Focused Innovation

In this profile, Paul Day, chief internal auditor at Lloyds Banking Group, explains how his team has built a culture of ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jan 11, 2021
Articles

For Financial Industry, Post-Pandemic Resilience Building Should Focus Equally on Operational Successes and Failures

This article offers key strategies finance firms must consider when returning employees to the workplace and identifies ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 21, 2020
Articles

Taking Physical Inventory While Working Remotely — A Unique Challenge in Manufacturing

This article explores what has changed the inventory process during the COVID-19 era and shares how companies can adapt ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 21, 2020
Checklists & Questionnaires

Common Risk Language Questionnaire

This sample questionnaire contains best practices and questions to consider for communicating and prioritizing risk acro...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 14, 2020
Articles

Lessons Learned from COVID-19: A Discussion for Board Members

This article outlines the remaining questions from Protiviti’s webinar discussion about ways board members can adjust to...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 14, 2020
Articles

Bank Culture Reform in Hong Kong

This article identifies what steps Authorized Institutions (AIs) can take to establish and maintain a strong governance ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 7, 2020
Articles

Rethinking Offshoring? Ideas to Consider as Momentum for Nearshoring Builds

In this article, Protiviti’s Bernie Donachie and John F. Weber discuss the challenges of outsourcing in the new economy ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Nov 9, 2020
Checklists & Questionnaires

Process-Based Self-Assessment Request Questionnaire

This tool contains questions and best practices to consider when implementing and/or evaluating an organization’s proces...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Nov 2, 2020
Articles

Going Back to the Office: Determining Key Personnel Risk in a New Reality

This article explores the topic of key personnel risk and gives management several back-to-office factors to consider.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
Protiviti Booklets

Internal Auditing Around the World: Volume 16

The future auditor has arrived. It’s a bold statement — and it’s true. The new edition of Internal Auditing Around the W...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
Checklists & Questionnaires

Process Owner Accountability Questionnaire

This tool provides an overview and description of process owner accountability and responsibility for testing operationa...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
Policies & Procedures

Code of Business Conduct Policy

This tool contains three sample policies that outline procedures an organization should use for following proper busines...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 12, 2020
Policies & Procedures

Delegation of Authority Policy

This tool contains two sample policies that outline standards and procedures related to assigning authority within an or...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 12, 2020
Articles

So You Had a Plan…Resetting the Technology Portfolio to Align With the Re-Emergence Strategy

This article describes the challenges of the new economy and offers steps the PMO should take to create a technology por...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 12, 2020
Policies & Procedures

Paid Time Off Policy

This tool contains two sample policies that establish standards associated with providing time off with compensation to ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 5, 2020
Articles

Leading Remote Teams in Times of Uncertainty

This article provides a checklist with leading practices and tips for organizations looking to develop more effective re...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 14, 2020
Articles

Risk Realities and Enterprise Risk Management in 2020

This article offers a list of questions that provides a bird’s-eye view of where your organization is in terms of ERM an...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 24, 2020
Articles

Economic Conditions, Digital Adoption and Talent Shortage Headline the Top Risks List for Tech Companies in 2020

This article highlights the top risks technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) organizations should keep in mind d...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 17, 2020
Articles

Respond and Learn: COVID-19 Disruption Provides Opportunities to Improve Operational Resilience

This article provides some insight on the leading practices to help businesses respond, recover and reemerge from the CO...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 17, 2020
Newsletters

Is Your Board Digitally Savvy?

This issue of Board Perspectives focuses on why boards should possess the digital savviness needed to support the CEO’s ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 10, 2020
Newsletters

Getting There Eventually: Finding Equilibrium in Uncertain Times Part 2 — Resilience is the North Star

This issue of The Bulletin is the second of a two-part discussion on the challenge of finding equilibrium amid the coron...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 3, 2020
Newsletters

COVID-19: Paradigm Shift in the Boardroom

This issue of Board Perspectives discusses five megatrends directors should keep in mind that can impact an organization...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 27, 2020
Newsletters

Getting There Eventually: Finding Equilibrium in Uncertain Times Part 1 — Build on Your Strengths

This issue of The Bulletin is the first of a two-part discussion on the challenge of finding equilibrium after unprecede...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 27, 2020
Articles

Risks at the Intersection of Talent, Culture, Innovation and Technology

This article takes a closer look at seven top risks leaders are facing and describes innovative digital thinking strateg...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 20, 2020
Articles

Remote Workforce Challenges — Managing Employee Productivity

This article discusses agile methodology practices to track time and provides helpful tips for structuring a workday and...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 13, 2020
Articles

Gender Diversity Can Aid Cybersecurity: CISO Panel Suggests Keys to Greater Female Participation

This article expands on the key takeaways from the Women Leaders in Cyber Security discussion panel of chief information...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 29, 2020
Articles

Make ESG Part of the Public Company Readiness Checklist — Your Valuation Could Depend on It

This article describes how environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting could move over time to becoming a must-...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 15, 2020
Newsletters

COVID-19’s Workplace Disruption: A Test of Board Resiliency

This issue of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight provides 10 suggestions for board members to consider as CEOs and organ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Apr 27, 2020
Benchmarking Tools

Ethics and Compliance Hotline Leading Practices

This tool features several leading practices for managing and understanding an organization’s ethics and compliance hotl...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 23, 2020
Articles

Focused on Digital Transformation? Lead With People, Not Technology

This article explains why humans continue to be an essential element of company advancement and identifies five key step...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 17, 2020
Articles

In Transformations, People Are at the Heart of Success

This article describes the four stages of change management and offers suggestions on how finance leaders can promote a ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 17, 2020
Articles

Looking for Innovation? 10 Ideas to Help Companies Break the Mold

In this article, Protiviti’s Barbi Goldstein and Kevin Khan outline 10 ideas organizations should consider that can help...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 3, 2020
Articles

At RegTech Conference, Protiviti and IRTA Sound an Urgent Call for KYC Optimization

This article shares some valuable ‘‘know your customer’’ (KYC) insights and recommendations based on both the results of...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jan 27, 2020
Benchmarking Reports

Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2020: Consumer Products and Services Industry Group Results

This report illustrates the top risks consumer products and services firms should keep in mind throughout 2020, based on...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jan 20, 2020
Benchmarking Reports

An Urgent Call for KYC Optimization

This report provides a blueprint for adopting more efficient and effective "know your customer" (KYC) processes that imp...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 30, 2019
Benchmarking Reports

Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2020

This report contains results from our eighth annual risk survey of directors and executives to obtain their views on the...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 16, 2019
Newsletters

Revamping Risk Culture in the Digital Age

This issue of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight focuses on why organizations might have to undertake more risk than the...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 16, 2019
Methodologies & Models

Fraud/Integrity Risk Methodology

This tool provides an overview of the integrity risk management process and includes key questions about integrity risks...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Nov 18, 2019
Articles

The New Tech Balance: Innovation, Talent and Responsibility

This article outlines three necessary pillars of tech balance that can help tech companies thrive today and in the futur...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Nov 11, 2019
Articles

The Human(e) Side of Digital

This article looks at some current and historical digital transformation trends that provide key lessons for boards and ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 21, 2019
Articles

Better Together: CFOs Reveal the Challenges That a Blended Team of Experts Helped Them Overcome

This article is the first of a three-part series to share what Protiviti and Robert Half heard from CFOs who participate...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 14, 2019
Checklists & Questionnaires

Workplace Dynamics Questionnaire: Technology and Labor Model

This sample questionnaire covers questions directors should consider for a successful workplace and digital labor transf...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Oct 7, 2019
Checklists & Questionnaires

Compliance Overview Questionnaire: Drug-Free Workplace Act

This sample questionnaire provides an overview, key risks, expected key controls and questions to consider when reviewin...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 2, 2019
Articles

How Emerging Technology Companies Can Win the War for Talent

This article discusses ways to retain top talent within an organization and provides incentives to maximize an employee’...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 12, 2019
Newsletters

Is Your Board Focused on the Right Risks?

This issue of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight highlights the key points defining our road map for strengthening the b...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 22, 2019
Articles

Top Risks: Winning the War for Talent

This article shares strategies organizations should incorporate to up their recruiting game.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 22, 2019
Articles

The College Admissions Scandal: Why Every Elite University Should Apply Root Cause Analysis

In this article, Protiviti Managing Director Scott Moritz explains what the recent college admissions scandal means for ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 15, 2019
Articles

Why Auditors Rarely Find Fraud

In this article, Protiviti Director Anthony Hodgkinson describes some of the reasons auditors rarely find fraud and offe...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 15, 2019
Articles

Sustainable Supply Chains — Desired and Required

In this article, Protiviti’s Bernie Donachie and Bob Hirth give their insights on what exactly makes a company sustainab...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 8, 2019
Articles

Corporate Social Responsibility: Are Tech Firms Doing Enough?

In this podcast transcript, Protiviti leaders Gordon Tucker, Jim DeLoach and Matt Moore discuss corporate social respons...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 1, 2019
Newsletters

Is Your Board Future-Ready?

This issue of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight provides eight suggestions for preparing to be a future-ready board.
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 1, 2019
Articles

ESG Reporting Is Now a Competitive Differentiator for Technology Firms

In this article, Gordon Tucker and Bob Hirth explain what it means to be a responsible technology firm and outline issue...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 24, 2019
Articles

Top Risks 2019: Anxiety Grows Over ‘‘Born Digital’’ Competitors

In this article, Protiviti Managing Director Jonathan Wyatt explains what organizations need to do to obtain a true digi...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jun 17, 2019
Articles

Digital Readiness, Talent Retention Top Executive Concerns in 2019, Survey Reveals

This article highlights some of the most intriguing results and insights from this year’s Executive Perspectives on Top ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, May 6, 2019
Articles

The Responsible Tech Firm Series Part 4: Corporate Social Responsibility

Protiviti has published a four-part series on key considerations for the responsible technology firm of the future. This...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Apr 29, 2019
Benchmarking Reports

2019 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey

In this benchmarking report, we take an in-depth look at the adoption of next-generation internal audit competencies suc...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
Benchmarking Reports

Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2019: Manufacturing and Distribution Industry Group Results

The results of Protiviti’s latest Executive Perspectives on Top Risks Survey suggest that manufacturing and distribution...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 18, 2019
Articles

Poor Culture and Fraud Risk Mismanagement: Survey Hints That the Connection Isn’t Widely Understood

In this article, Protiviti Managing Director Scott Moritz explores the inextricable link between culture, fraud and misc...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Feb 18, 2019
Newsletters

The Top Risks for 2019

This issue summarizes five key takeaways from the 2019 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks survey and ranks the highest-...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jan 28, 2019
Articles

Maintaining Staffing Equilibrium With a Flexible Workforce

Historically, accounting has been a straightforward function. However, leaders in finance and accounting may find that t...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 31, 2018
Articles

Top-Performing Environmental Health and Safety Programs Are an Integral Part of Improving Business Performance

Mature environmental health and safety (EHS) programs help companies keep tabs on new and enforceable regulations, integ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 31, 2018
Benchmarking Reports

Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2019

This report contains extensive analysis of key insights on top risk concerns across several different dimensions, includ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 10, 2018
Articles

Time for Technology Companies to Commit to Women in Leadership Roles

A recent study found that companies with a 30 percent female executive team can realize as many as six percentage points...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Dec 10, 2018
Audit Reports

Enterprise Risk Assessment Board Report

This sample report provides findings from a company’s enterprise risk assessment, including risk assessment process reca...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Nov 26, 2018
Articles

The Ideal Workforce: Why a 30-Year-Old Employment Model Is Relevant Again

It’s been nearly 30 years since Charles Handy first described what he calls the “shamrock organization” in his groundbre...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Nov 26, 2018
Benchmarking Reports

2018 White-Collar Crime and Fraud Risk Survey

The results of the latest White-Collar Crime and Fraud Risk Survey reveal some troubling trends that should raise concer...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 17, 2018
Articles

Narrow Whistleblower Protection May Have Broad Impact

This article explains why it is more important than ever for compliance personnel, internal auditors and boards of direc...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 17, 2018
Articles

Risk, Strategy, Culture: Internal Auditors Shoot for the Stars

While most people are uncomfortable going into areas that may challenge them, internal auditors need to get comfortable ...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Sep 17, 2018
Articles

Innovation with a Capital “C” – Culture Concerns Climb for Technology, Media and Communications Companies in 2018

In this article, Protiviti’s Gordon Tucker describes the role culture plays in TMC companies’ ability to compete effecti...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Aug 27, 2018
Articles

Focus on Culture: How Culture Assessments Can Support the Audit Committee’s Agenda

In this article, Protiviti Executive Vice President Susan Haseley offers some suggestions on how organizations might inc...
Subscriber Content
Wed, Aug 22, 2018
Newsletters

Corporate Culture: Are You Curious Enough?

In issue 12 of The Bulletin, Protiviti explores the question, “Are organizations curious enough to really understand all...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 30, 2018
Articles

Six Areas to Assess When Diagnosing Organizational Culture

In this article, popular KnowledgeLeader writer Ann Butera explores and defines six areas you should focus on when evalu...
Subscriber Content
Mon, Jul 30, 2018
Articles

Risk Culture Audits: Does Your Organization Walk the Talk?

Based on observations from working with financial services industry (FSI) clients and colleagues, Protiviti’s Reema Sing...
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Mon, Jul 23, 2018
Articles

Measuring Ethical Culture: Tapping Into “Open Secrets”

A number of corporate scandals have played out on the front pages in the past year that have raised the discourse around...
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Mon, Jun 4, 2018
Performer Profiles

Fix Yourself First: Tennessee Valley Authority OIG Leads by Example

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) provides electrical service to more than 9 million customers across portions of sev...
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Mon, May 7, 2018
Newsletters

Sustaining an Innovation Culture in the Digital Age

Digital transformation is disrupting entrenched incumbents and even whole industries. This issue of Board Perspectives: ...
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Mon, Apr 30, 2018
Performer Profiles

Doing Things the Right Way at T-Mobile

For T-Mobile, the “right way” means solving customer pain points and making the customer experience easier, better, more...
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Mon, Apr 23, 2018
Performer Profiles

Internal Audit Keeps Takeda’s Deeply Rooted Culture in Focus When Assessing Risk

Katsuaki Kaneko, Head of Group Internal Audit at Takeda says, “…Takeda’s senior management team has given me a mandate —...
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Mon, Apr 2, 2018
Policies & Procedures

Workplace Violence Policy

This sample policy establishes procedures to minimize and/or prevent violence and unacceptable behavior in the workplace...
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Mon, Oct 16, 2017
Policies & Procedures

Dispute Resolution Policy

The sample policy provides an effective problem-solving and dispute resolution process which every employee can utilize ...
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Mon, Oct 9, 2017
Checklists & Questionnaires

Diversity and Inclusion Process Questionnaire

This tool provides insights on the diversity and inclusion process, including key risks, expected key controls and quest...
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Mon, Oct 9, 2017
Protiviti Booklets

Internal Auditing Around the World: Volume 13

In our latest edition of Internal Auditing Around the World, we focus on a challenge that places leaders in somewhat unf...
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Mon, Jul 31, 2017
Newsletters

The Four C's in Overseeing Internal Audit

This issue of Board Perspectives discusses the four C's directors should consider when evaluating the sufficiency of any...
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Mon, Apr 10, 2017
Checklists & Questionnaires

Risk Culture Assessment Questionnaire

This tool focuses on topics that can help shape and support an effective risk culture.
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Mon, Jul 11, 2016
Policies & Procedures

Employment of Related Persons Policy

This policy outlines a set of procedures for employment of related persons in order to maintain an atmosphere of fair an...
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Mon, Aug 24, 2015
Audit Programs

Social Responsibilities Programs Audit Work Program

This audit program helps internal audit functions identify social responsibility issues that an organization may not be ...
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Mon, Jul 27, 2015
Newsletters

Strengthening Your Risk Culture

This issue of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight looks at how the use of self-assessment techniques can help an organiz...
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Mon, Jul 7, 2014
Newsletters

Ten Keys to Managing Reputation Risk

In this issue of The Bulletin, we explore 10 essential keys for managing reputation risk.
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Mon, Apr 29, 2013
Newsletters

Focus on the “Tone of the Organization”

While tone at the top is important and a vital foundation, is it enough? This issue of Board Perspectives explains why i...
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Mon, Dec 3, 2012
Policies & Procedures

Blog and Social Networking Policy

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that all employee blog and social networking activities incorporate consistent s...
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Mon, Apr 9, 2012
Newsletters

Is Your Compliance Management Making a Difference? (The Bulletin: Volume 4, Issue 10)

This issue of The Bulletin focuses on the issues that surround compliance, its current state, true cost and value propos...
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Mon, Feb 13, 2012
Newsletters

Electronic Discovery: An Academic Exercise or Your Next Crisis?

This issue of The Bulletin provides ideas for companies to implement practical approaches in proportion to their litigat...
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Mon, Jul 14, 2008
Newsletters

The Changing Corporate Governance Landscape and Its Implications

This issue of The Bulletin reviews examples of what the board of directors and management should do as they work to impr...
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Mon, Oct 14, 2002
Newsletters

The Role of Personal Accountability in the New Environment

This issue of The Bulletin outlines seven key principles that provide a framework for establishing and reinforcing the p...
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Mon, Sep 30, 2002
Blog

COSO ERM Framework: Key Facts You Need to Know

When initiating the project to update its enterprise risk management (ERM) framework, COSO saw opportunitie...
Sun, Feb 19, 2017
Blog

COSO: Step Up Your ERM, Integrated and Internal Controls

COSO is a framework used by businesses to establish a set of internal controls for integration into their b...
Thu, Jul 28, 2022
Blog

How to Define Risk Management Goals and Objectives in Your Organization

Risk oversight and risk management are high priorities on the agenda of most organizations. Here are popul...
Sun, Feb 12, 2017
Blog

How to Easily Revamp Risk Culture in the Digital Age

How many directors can name a chief risk officer who has advised them and the executive team that the organ...
Thu, Dec 19, 2019
Blog

How to Evaluate Your Corporate Culture

Starting the Process to Evaluate Culture Internal auditors often talk about the “tone at the top” – the i...
Fri, Jun 14, 2019