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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...
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Articles
Future of Sustainability and ESG Standards With Janine Guillot, Value Reporting Foundation CEO
Protiviti’s Bob Hirth and Value Reporting Foundation CEO Janine Guillot sat down to discuss the agenda of the ISSB and t...
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Methodologies & Models
IT General Controls Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s IT general controls and to assis...
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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...
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Articles
Prospering in the New World of Supply Chain Risk Management
Here, we explore how boards should rethink their approach to strategic oversight and supply chain risks governance.
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Methodologies & Models
Six Elements of Infrastructure for Data Analytics
This sample document includes the six elements of infrastructure for an organization's data analytics process.
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Benchmarking Reports
Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2022 and 2031
This report provides insights about top risks for the short term — 2022 — and the long term — 2031 — from survey respond...
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Performer Profiles
Standard Chartered: Creating an Organization That Is “Resilient by Design”
Standard Chartered Managing Director and Group Head of Audit Micky Bhansali explains how his team has progressed in its ...
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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.
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Protiviti Booklets
Internal Auditing Around the World: Volume 18
The new edition of Internal Auditing Around the World addresses how internal audit functions are using the pandemic expe...
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Methodologies & Models
IT Governance Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s IT governance and to assist its ...
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Audit Programs
Executive Compensation Audit Work Program
With this tool, you get two sample work programs that provide general steps and questions organizations can use during a...
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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.
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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.
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Methodologies & Models
Corporate Actions Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s corporate actions process and to...
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Newsletters
Ensuring Technology Fluency in the Boardroom
In this issue of Board Perspectives, we provide six ways boards can ensure technology fluency and be technology-engaged.
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Methodologies & Models
Incident Management Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s incident management process and ...
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Performer Profiles
Saudi Telecom Company: Instilling a Business Resilience Mindset
Saudi Telecom Company Group Chief Audit Executive Abdullah Alanizi shares how his team has enhanced the company’s value ...
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Articles
Protiviti's Claire Gotham and Tyler Chase on Powering the City of the Future
As IoT grows exponentially, data platforms will become more important in ensuring that the energy needed to run a city i...
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Articles
Flying Taxis and Digital Twin Cities
Petra Hurtado, research director at American Planning Association (APA), sat down with Protiviti to discuss where she se...
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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...
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Performer Profiles
Masonite International Corporation: Opening Doors to the Possibilities of Resilience
Masonite Vice President and Chief Audit Executive Katie Shellabarger explains how her team’s focus on business resilienc...
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Methodologies & Models
Business Continuity Management Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s business continuity management p...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
IT Change Management Process Questionnaire
Use the questions included in this tool to ensure that all changes to IT resources and infrastructure configurations are...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Inventory Management Questionnaire
The questions provided in this sample can be used to assess and identify gaps in your inventory management process.
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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...
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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...
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Methodologies & Models
Contract Management Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s contract management process and ...
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Performer Profiles
Knowles Corporation: Tuning in Closely to Stakeholder Feedback
In this profile, Simon Ong, chief audit executive at Knowles Corporation, explains how his team’s collaborative approach...
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Methodologies & Models
Change Management Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s change management process and to...
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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...
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Newsletters
Is Your Company Part of the Energy Revolution?
This issue of Board Perspectives explains how non-energy company boards can better prepare for the energy revolution.
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Performer Profiles
Grupo Bepensa: Revolutionizing the Audit Process to Amplify Business Resilience
In this profile, Bepensa Audit Director Javier Humberto Cámara Cabrera explains how his team has applied specialized exp...
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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) ...
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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...
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Performer Profiles
FIS: Leveraging the Power of Emerging Technology for Greater Assurance
In this profile, FIS Chief Audit Executive John Eagle shares how his team utilizes advanced technology to focus on ongoi...
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Benchmarking Reports
2021 Finance Trends Survey Report
Protiviti’s latest Global Finance Trends Report highlights how CFOs are shaping cybersecurity, long-term talent strategi...
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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...
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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...
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Guides
Risk Assessment Guide
This tool contains two guides that can be used by auditors to understand and improve their risk assessment process.
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Policies & Procedures
Account Reconciliation Policy
This tool contains multiple sample policies that establish procedures and guidelines organizations can use during their ...
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Performer Profiles
Unum Group: Pivoting to Respond to Change While Positioning for the Future
In this profile, Unum Senior Vice President of Internal Audit Miles Archer explains how his team has navigated pandemic-...
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Policies & Procedures
Data Backup and Retention Policy
This tool contains three sample policies that highlight guidelines and procedures common to recognizing and retaining da...
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Articles
Resilience and the Workforce Are Key Concerns in 2021 and Over the Next Decade, According to Protiviti-NC State Global Survey
Here, we highlight the results of our ninth annual risk survey and illustrate the top 10 risks for 2021 and 2030 in orde...
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Performer Profiles
Centene Corporation: Resilience Stems From the Resolve to Help Others
Matt Snyder, senior vice president of internal audit, compliance and risk management at Centene, explains how his team’s...
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Benchmarking Tools
Enterprise Security Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
The purpose of this tool is to encourage dialog and help an organization assess the state of its network security. Areas...
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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...
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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...
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Regulatory Updates
Leveling the Playing Field for Third-Party Risk Management Requirements
In this Flash Report, we summarize the opportunities and key takeaways around third-party risk management lifecycle cons...
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Performer Profiles
Booking Holdings: Navigating a Global Crisis With a Resilience Mindset
In this profile, Booking Holdings Senior Vice President and Chief Audit Officer Marco Rozenberg describes his team’s int...
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Benchmarking Tools
Business Continuity Management Leading Practices
Organizations can use the leading practices outlined in this tool to measure and improve the business continuity managem...
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Articles
Realities of Crisis, Regulatory Landscape Call for Re-Imagining Resilience and Curbing Complacency
Here, we discuss several critical factors for financial services organizations to consider with regard to their future o...
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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...
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Articles
Program Management as a Service — Transforming the PMO Through a Scalable Service Model
In this article, we illustrate why organizations should use a PMaaS solution to execute and transform all critical areas...
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Articles
Business Continuity Programs: Beware of Complacency
Protiviti Managing Director Matthew Watson outlines the looming danger of post-COVID complacency.
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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 ...
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Articles
Managing Connected Devices in Today’s Evolving Business Environment
A look at how a managed service approach, developed in conjunction with IT, can be used to maintain an entire device lif...
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Articles
New Survey Reveals Four Habits of Highly Resilient CFOs
Learn the four habits that CFOs should ingrain into their jobs, based on the top finance challenges and areas of focus r...
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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 ...
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Charters
Business Continuity Program Charter
This sample establishes guidelines for developing a business continuity program charter.
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Articles
How Firms Can Tackle Technology Risk Blind Spots to Build Resilience
Protiviti’s Ewen Ferguson and Hirun Tantirigama identify common critical technology risks and illustrate what organizati...
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Charters
IT Change Advisory Board Charter
This sample provides key roles and responsibilities for creating an IT change advisory board charter.
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Articles
The Three C’s of a Quality Cloud Audit
This article outlines Protiviti's comprehensive cloud audit approach, which is based on leading practices and frameworks...
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Guides
Data Analytics and Audit Coverage Guide
This document includes two sample guides that can be used for understanding and leveraging an organization’s data analyt...
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Charters
Emergency Executive Committee Charter
This sample provides guidelines and responsibilities for creating an emergency executive committee charter (EEC).
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Benchmarking Reports
2020 Finance Trends Survey Report: The Transformation of Transactional Work
When comparing the findings of our latest global survey of finance trends to the results of prior years, one of the most...
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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 ...
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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...
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Newsletters
Quantum Computing: Why the Board Should Care
This issue of Board Perspectives summarizes why quantum computing offers companies a powerful value proposition for solv...
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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.
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Regulatory Updates
President Biden Executive Order to Strengthen U.S. Cybersecurity
Read this Flash Report to understand the executive order's key provisions and what it may mean for your organization in ...
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Newsletters
Board Effectiveness: The Fed’s Guidance Speaks to Resiliency
In this issue of Board Perspectives, we discuss the significance of the Federal Reserve Board’s recently released guidan...
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Articles
High Stakes: Evolving Trade Rules Require Solid Third-Party Risk Management
Protiviti's Bernie Donachie and Kyle Appell offer third-party risk management advice to organizations selecting offshore...
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Benchmarking Tools
Affiliations Risk Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This benchmarking tool lists business risks related to affiliations, shares management practices and performance measure...
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Articles
Pandemic-Driven Issues Complicating Tech CFOs’ 2021 Spending Decisions
A look at how chief financial officers can find creative ways in their budgets to keep employees happy and productive.
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Articles
Insights from COVID-19 References in CAMs
Audit Analytics analyzes the pandemic’s significant impact on public company reports, including appearing in CAMs commun...
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Articles
2021 Offers U.S. Oil and Gas Firms Challenges Laced With Opportunities
Based on the state of the industry at the start of 2021, Protiviti Managing Director Tyler Chase outlines challenges — a...
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Performer Profiles
Zurich Insurance Company Ltd: The Leading Edge of Internal Audit Transformation
In this profile, Zurich Head of Group Audit Martin Struder summarizes the key drivers of his internal audit team’s trans...
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Benchmarking Tools
Channel Effectiveness Risk Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This tool highlights key performance indicators and questions organizations should address when measuring channel effect...
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Performer Profiles
Microsoft Corporation: Leading With What’s Next in Agile Auditing
In this profile, Michael Williams, group IT audit program manager at Microsoft, explains how his team has leveraged agil...
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Articles
Ongoing Risks of Government Lending Programs
This article summarizes key government lending program risk implications and highlights five proactive steps lenders can...
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Articles
Understanding Spend Is Key to Building Business Resilience in the New Normal
This article identifies six areas where spend analysis can deliver critical inputs to reduce risk and increase resilienc...
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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...
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Benchmarking Tools
Manage Improvement and Change Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This tool features key performance indicators an organization should use to manage enterprisewide change and improvement...
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Benchmarking Tools
Manage Inventories Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This tool contains leading practices an organization can use to evaluate and manage its inventory process.
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Articles
Architecting Your Cloud Infrastructure for Failure (and Resilience)
This article notes five keys to architecting for failure that firms should consider to meet the evolving threat and regu...
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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.
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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...
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Benchmarking Tools
Accounts Payable Process Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This tool includes key performance indicators an organization should use to measure and improve its accounts payable pro...
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Articles
Beyond Supply Chain Stopgaps: How Strategic Sourcing Can Drive Resilience in Today’s Market
This article defines strategic sourcing and identifies six detailed steps management can take to maintain a resilient pr...
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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...
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Benchmarking Tools
Sourcing Risk Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This tool contains leading practices and questions organizations should consider when evaluating outsourcing risks.
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Benchmarking Tools
Develop Public Relations Program Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This tool contains leading practices and key performance indicators companies should consider when creating their public...
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Articles
Fintechs and Regulatory Compliance — A Happily Ever After?
Protiviti’s Owen Strijland shares his insights on how fintechs can overcome the AML challenges related to becoming PSD2-...
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Benchmarking Tools
Measure Organizational Performance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This tool includes key performance indicators and questions organizations should consider when evaluating their performa...
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Newsletters
The Top Risks in 2021: A Global Perspective
This issue of Board Perspectives shares some of the key takeaways from the 2021 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks surv...
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Articles
Automating Revenue — Healthcare Revenue Cycle Quick Wins Amid COVID-19
This article explores the benefits of automation and identifies opportunities healthcare organizations can use to improv...
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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...
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Articles
Effective Third-Party Risk Management During COVID-19 and Beyond
Protiviti Managing Directors Paul Kooney and Brian Kostek explain why companies should embrace innovative third-party ri...
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Policies & Procedures
IT Change Management Policy
This document contains multiple sample policies that provide an overview of procedures organizations should perform duri...
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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...
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Articles
Beyond Business Continuity Management: Building Resilience for Extreme but Plausible Events in a Post-COVID-19 World
Protiviti's Douglas Wilbert and Dugan Krwawicz discuss ways organizations can build resilience in a changing risk enviro...
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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 ...
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Articles
Getting to Resilient: Re-Imagining Crisis Management and Business Continuity Planning in a New Reality
This article provides an overview of operational resilience and identifies key concepts organizations should consider wh...
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Articles
Persevering and Prospering in the Time of COVID-19: Keep Accounts Receivable Turning
This article offers several approaches finance leaders can use to manage the billing and collections issues they are fac...
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Articles
Harnessing Intelligent Automation to Increase Resilience
This article explains how intelligent process automation (IPA) can help companies manage costs and increase resilience f...
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Benchmarking Reports
2021 IT Audit Benchmarking Survey
Cybersecurity, privacy, data and resilience dominate the top technology challenges for organizations, according to the a...
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Benchmarking Reports
2020 Finance Trends Survey Report: Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry Group Results
This report illustrates the top risks TMT organizations should keep in mind throughout 2021, according to the results of...
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Benchmarking Tools
Warehouse and Storage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This tool outlines leading practices and key performance indicators for the warehouse and storage process.
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Articles
Assessing Risk in Dynamic Times: Challenge Brings Opportunity to Internal Audit
This article summarizes what businesses and auditors need to plan for right now, as well as ‘‘next’’ and ‘‘eventually.’’
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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 ...
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Newsletters
Operational Resilience Gets a Makeover in the ‘‘New Normal’’
This issue of Board Perspectives discusses the board’s role in overseeing operational resilience in the post-pandemic wo...
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Guides
Business Continuity Planning Guide
This tool features two sample guides that can be used for implementing and maintaining an organization’s business contin...
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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...
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Newsletters
Setting the 2021 Audit Committee Agenda
In this issue of The Bulletin, Protiviti suggests eight 2021 audit committee agenda issues and offers questions for audi...
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Articles
Transparency, Empathy, Consistency, Frequency – Keys to Crisis Communications
This article recaps key takeaways from a Protiviti webinar discussion, focusing on best practices for communicating with...
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Articles
Process Analytics Provides Edge in Coping With Pandemic-Stricken Supply Chains
This article highlights key strategies and tactics companies should employ both now and in the future as they look towar...
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Articles
Re-Entry Considerations for Finance as Companies Begin to Re-Open
This article determines what measures the financial services industry must take to identify and operationalize process i...
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Benchmarking Reports
2020 Finance Trends Survey Report
Protiviti’s latest Global Finance Trends Survey Report highlights how CFOs are committed to ongoing finance transformati...
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Articles
New SOX Survey: COVID-19 Environment Further Drives Need for Greater Automation and Technology Adoption for Compliance Processes
This article outlines some of the most significant results from Protiviti’s 2020 Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey, which...
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Articles
A Recovery Pathway for Healthcare Organizations
In this article, we explore the global pandemic’s effect on the healthcare industry and outline five critical areas heal...
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Articles
PPP Loan Forgiveness, Part 2
Here, we provide a breakdown of two interim final rules on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness requir...
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Articles
COVID-19 Crisis Highlights the Value of Agile Auditing
Why Agile auditing will continue to be the best way forward for internal audit as organizations adjust to a post-COVID w...
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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.
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Articles
Treasury Department Weighs in on Contentious BI Claims Dispute
This article explains what’s on the horizon for insurers reeling from the pandemic.
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Audit Reports
Business Continuity Management Audit Report
This tool contains two sample audit reports that can be used to assess an organization’s business continuity management ...
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Articles
Opportunities Abound in Pandemic Re-Emergence Planning
This article uncovers what opportunities are available to organizations looking for ways to re-emerge from the pandemic ...
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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...
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Articles
Strategies for Reducing Retail Shrink During Challenging Times
This white paper discusses the major types and causes of retail shrink, along with best practices and emerging trends in...
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Articles
A Finance Labor Model Tailor-Made for Navigating Crises
This article details the challenges finance leaders have faced during COVID-19 and explains what makes a managed service...
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Articles
Managing and Mitigating Credit Risks and Losses Through the Crisis and Beyond
This article describes the impact of COVID-19 on the financial services industry and outlines steps lenders should take ...
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Articles
Paycheck Protection Program: A Good Idea Going Bad?
This article uncovers the issues with the PPP’s forgiveness requirements and provides lessons learned small businesses s...
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Policies & Procedures
Accounts Payable Policy
This tool contains four sample policies that outline procedures for documenting, recording and issuing payments for a co...
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Articles
The Pandemic Crisis Draws Sharp Contrast Between Digital Leaders and the Rest
This article reviews leadership teams’ responses to the global pandemic and provides steps digital beginners should take...
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Articles
The Future of Privacy Regulations: Coping With a Complex and Evolving Landscape
This article explains what companies can expect from privacy regulations and how to go about creating a data privacy pro...
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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...
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Articles
Operational Resilience: Measuring Impact Tolerance the FAIR Way
This article explains how the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) methodology can help organizations determine wh...
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Protiviti Booklets
A Guide to Business Continuity Management – Top 15 Frequently Asked Questions (July 2020)
Organizations have many questions about business continuity management (BCM), and in response, Protiviti has developed t...
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Articles
Hackathon to Save Small Business
Learn what was discussed during an Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) hackathon to save small business that Protiv...
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Articles
COVID-19 Impacts on Accounting, Reporting and Internal Controls
This article discusses key accounting and audit impacts and practices finance leaders should consider as they respond to...
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Articles
Working Together: Bank Regulators Encourage Flexibility and Offer the Same During COVID-19 Pandemic
This article explains what a joint statement recently issued by the regulatory agencies means for financial institutions...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
SWOT Analysis Questionnaire
This tool contains two sample documents that provide questions organizations should consider when analyzing their streng...
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Memos
Data Governance Audit Scoping Memo
This sample memo serves as a report of an internal audit function’s high-level assessment of the company’s data governan...
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Articles
Decade of Data: Trends in Audit Fees Across Europe
In this article, Audit Analytics examines 10 years of annual audit and non-audit fee trends of companies listed on regul...
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Articles
Section 1135 Waivers: “Patients Over Paperwork” Does Not Mean NO Paperwork
This article summarizes the "Patients Over Paperwork" initiative and identifies six key actions that can be taken to hel...
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Articles
The 2020 Audit Committee Agenda: Asking the Right Questions
This article discusses seven key questions audit committees should consider for enhancing the context of their risk over...
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Articles
After the Virus: Reassessing and Future-Proofing Your Business From a Customer Experience Perspective
This article describes a plan for enhancing customer-focused strategies and identifies six key actions companies can tak...
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Audit Programs
IT General Controls Audit Work Program
This tool contains three sample work programs that provide general steps an organization should consider when evaluating...
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Articles
SOX Risk Assessment in the Time of COVID-19
This article discusses six key considerations a company should take when performing its Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) risk assess...
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Policies & Procedures
Contingent Liabilities Policy
This document contains two sample policies that provide guidelines and procedures for recognizing and disclosing an orga...
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Guides
Data Governance Guide
This tool can be used as a guide for understanding and reviewing the essential components of an organization’s data gove...
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Audit Programs
IT Vendor Management Audit Work Program
This vendor management audit program provides general steps organizations should take when conducting an IT vendor manag...
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Audit Programs
Remote Site Visit Audit Work Program
This sample contains two work programs that provide general steps organizations can use during a remote site audit.
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Articles
SOC Reports: Anticipating Challenges Can Help Minimize Disruption of SOX Compliance Programs
This article outlines a list of practical steps that companies can take to get ahead of the delay in SOC reports from se...
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Policies & Procedures
Acquisition Policy
This tool contains two sample policies that detail the acquisitions/new business developments process for an organizatio...
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Audit Programs
Application Controls Audit Work Program
This tool contains two sample work programs that provide general steps organizations should take when auditing financial...
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Articles
Audit Fees of the S&P 500
In this article, Audit Analytics takes a closer look at what audit fees look like across different industries within 500...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Executive Sponsorship Change Management Questionnaire
This tool outlines questions to consider for effectively managing all essential elements of organizational change in an ...
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Policies & Procedures
Accrued Liabilities Policy
This tool contains two sample policies that establish processes where the accrual processes ensure that all expenses rel...
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Policies & Procedures
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Policy
This tool contains two sample policies that establish processes organizations can use for ensuring that uniform accounti...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Business Process Re-Engineering Questionnaire
This tool outlines questions to consider for measuring and restructuring organizations’ business processes.
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Integration Strategy Questionnaire
This tool provides questions organizations should consider when implementing an enterprise risk management (ERM) strateg...
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Audit Programs
Returned Checks Audit Work Program
This sample audit program provides general steps organizations should follow when reviewing returned checks.
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Policies & Procedures
Accounts Receivable Policy
This tool contains two accounts receivable policies that establish procedures organizations should take for ensuring con...
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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...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Outsourcing, Alliances and Joint Ventures Risk Questionnaire
This tool highlights questions to consider for understanding and assessing an organization’s outsourcing, alliances and ...
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Policies & Procedures
Acceptable Use Policy
This tool contains two sample policies that establish standards and procedures organizations should follow for governing...
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Articles
BlackRock’s Larry Fink Draws Another Line in the Sand — The Message Is Getting Clearer
This article covers important points from Protiviti’s recent Flash Report on BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink's mos...
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Articles
RPA Deployments Remain Untapped Opportunities for Oil and Gas Companies
This article provides some insight on why it’s time for energy and utilities firms to consider kicking their robotic pro...
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Newsletters
Operational Resiliency and the Role of the Board
This issue of Board Perspectives covers some of the important points and key takeaways discussed during Protiviti’s meet...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Change Recognition Process Questionnaire
This tool outlines questions organizations should consider when implementing a robust change recognition process.
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Audit Programs
Inventory Audit Work Program
This document outlines three sample work programs that provide general steps organizations can use during an inventory a...
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Guides
Capital Project Management Risks Guide
This document can be used as a guide to mitigating risks common to an organization’s capital project management process.
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Policies & Procedures
Inventory Policy
This inventory policy contains two samples that outline guidelines and accounting policies associated with an organizati...
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Methodologies & Models
Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
The capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s improved performance and to assis...
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Methodologies & Models
Project Management Methodology
This sample document can be used as a guide for understanding and reviewing an organization’s project management process...
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Methodologies & Models
Business Continuity Management Methodology
This tool highlights seven phases of the business continuity management methodology, describing its benefits and the Pro...
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Purchase Materials and Supplies: Monitor Contract Spend RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to monitoring contract spend during the “purchase materials and supplie...
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Manage Service Contracts: Monitoring Existing Contracts RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the “monitoring existing contracts” aspect of the “manage service co...
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Manage Service Contracts: Entering Contracts into the System RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the monitoring of existing contracts aspect of the “manage service c...
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Guides
PMO Interim Status Reporting Guide
This guide outlines the interim status reporting process set up by a project management office (PMO).
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Guides
Inventory Management Training Guide
This guide focuses on the inventory management process, including quick facts on inventory, policies and procedures for ...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
IT Application Security Questionnaire
This sample questionnaire is designed to monitor and enhance an organization's IT application security process.
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Supply Chain Risk Questionnaire
This sample questionnaire document offers several questions to consider when evaluating supply chain risk.
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Methodologies & Models
Vendor Management Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s vendor management process and to...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
PMO Change Control Form
This change control form can be used to document the process of submitting system development requests to a project mana...
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Select and Manage Suppliers RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the “select and manage suppliers” process in a risk control matrix (...
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Manage Inventories RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the “manage inventories” process in a risk control matrix format.
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Purchase Materials and Supplies: Purchase Orders RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the purchase order (PO) aspect of the “purchase materials and suppli...
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Purchase Materials and Supplies RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the “purchasing of materials and supplies” process in a risk control...
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Audit Reports
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Program Assessment Report
This audit report sample focuses on whether an appropriate enterprise-wide governance structure is in place to manage th...
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Audit Programs
Vendor Review Audit Work Program
This sample provides steps for reviewing a company’s vendor management process.
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Working Capital Management Questionnaire
There are three fundamental building blocks of effective cash management: working capital optimization, cash flow foreca...
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Audit Reports
Business Continuity Software Research Report
This report assesses various business continuity software solution providers in the global market with the purpose of en...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
IT Disaster Recovery Plan Assessment Checklist
Eye-opening disaster recovery plan checklist items and questions for you to consider.
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Policies & Procedures
Vendor Contract Library Management Policy
This sample policy establishes guidelines and procedures that must be followed with respect to retention, administration...
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Policies & Procedures
Emergency Policies and Procedures Manual
This is a sample of emergency policies and procedures for a business office. It includes procedures for safety teams, fi...
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Policies & Procedures
Information Security Development Policy
This document provides an outline and framework for creating a set of policies and procedures focused on the organizatio...
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Policies & Procedures
Data Management: Data Backup and Storage Policy
This sample policy specifies the procedures for backing up data and facilitating the recovery of important data in the e...
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Policies & Procedures
Vendor Selection Policy
This sample policy defines requisition responsibilities and establishes vendor bidding guidelines.
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Sourcing Strategy Questionnaire
This sample questionnaire includes templates for a bid sheet and a bid package checklist as guidance for a sourcing stra...
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Manage Service Contracts RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the “manage service contracts” process in a risk control matrix (RCM...
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Policies & Procedures
Vendor Database Management Policy
This sample policy explains the procedures for coordinating the proper registration and maintenance of vendor informatio...
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Policies & Procedures
Order Management Policy
This sample policy outlines procedures to be followed by the customer service team when processing orders.
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Audit Programs
Export Compliance Audit Work Program
This program focuses internal auditors on the necessary controls that should be in place to ensure a compliant export ma...
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Policies & Procedures
Business Impact Analysis Policy
This sample policy outlines procedures to identify a company’s most critical business processes and support functions an...
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Policies & Procedures
Crisis Management and Emergency Operations Policy
This sample policy provides an overview of procedures organizations should take during the crisis management and emergen...
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Checklists & Questionnaires
Risk Oversight and Risk Management Questionnaire
The purpose of this risk management questionnaire is to help boards and management think about how they can develop a de...
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Manage Cash Flow/Treasury RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the "manage cash flow/treasury" process in an RCM format.
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Manage Delivery Process RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the "manage delivery" process in a risk control matrix (RCM) format.
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Audit Programs
Freight Management Audit Work Program
The purpose of this audit work program is to understand and evaluate the freight management process.
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Risk & Control Matrices - RCMs
Business Continuity Management RCM
This document outlines risks and controls common to the "business continuity management" process in a risk control matri...
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Audit Programs
Order Management Process Audit Work Program
This work program provides key steps for a review of the order management process, including identification of performan...
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Audit Programs
Supply Chain Audit Work Program
This audit program focuses on the supply chain management process, including: policies, organizational risks, process ri...
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Policies & Procedures
Vendor Contracting Policy
This policy establishes procedures to follow prior to signing vendor contracts on behalf of a company, including obtaini...
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Policies & Procedures
Freight Claims Policy
This policy focuses on processing freight claims for shipments where the carrier lost and/or damaged goods during shipme...
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Policies & Procedures
Inventory Valuation Policy
This sample outlines a set of policies and procedures for inventory valuation.
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Blog
Building and Maintaining a Robust Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Platform
The many ongoing risks that businesses face daily extend well beyond organizational risk and market risk to...
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Business Intelligence Competency Centers Overview and Guide
The objectives of a business intelligence competency center (BICC) are to provide the organization with bet...
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How to Successfully Optimize Your BCM Program
Business continuity management (BCM) is the development of strategies, plans and actions that provide prote...
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Where to Look for Digital Risk
Many auditors are asking themselves the same legitimate question: With so much happening, where do we start...