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PCAOB Shares Insights From Its Discussions With Audit Committee Chairs

This Flash Report highlights key points in a recent Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) publication as well as Protiviti’s commentary.

Featured Event

Recorded Webinar: Setting the 2020 Audit Committee Agenda

View this webinar recording to hear Protiviti Managing Directors Jim DeLoach, Paul Sachs and Chris Wright discuss the significant issues that we believe warrant the attention of audit committees at most companies and organizations.

Questionnaires

Assessment Questions for Audit Committees to Consider

This tool outlines questions for audit committees to consider during an organization’s self-assessment process.

Project Management Office (PMO) Questionnaire

This tool provides questions to consider when evaluating an organization’s project management office (PMO) functionality and processes.

Model

Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting Compliance Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s compliance with internal controls over financial reporting and to assist its progress from the initial/ad-hoc state toward the optimized state.

Updated Methodology

Six Elements of Infrastructure for Public Company Readiness

This document includes the six elements of infrastructure focused on an organization’s public company readiness process.

Updated Policy

Intercompany Accounting Policy

This tool contains two sample policies that outline guidelines and procedures related to an organization’s intercompany transactions process.

Benchmarking Report

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 the results from Protiviti’s Executive Perspectives on Top Risks in 2020 Survey.

Hot Issue Articles

Public Company Transformation: Critical Audit Matters Should Matter for Soon-to-Be-Public Companies

This article shares some insight on critical audit matters (CAMs) and what they mean for private companies as part of their public company transformation process.

SOX Compliance: Faster Automation, Fewer Controls and How to Get There

This article reviews what parts of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance can benefit from automation and provides credible recommendations for companies to rationalize/reduce their total number of controls.

Featured Links

Final Reflections on Internal Audit's Decade of Progress

In the past 10 years, many significant events have occurred that have dramatically altered the risk landscape that internal auditors must navigate. This article describes how the decade has reshaped the work of internal audit. Source: theiia.org

Cybersecurity 2020: Welcome to the Digital Cold War

The race to develop strategically important next-generation technology will drive an increase in nation-state-backed attacks. Source: cfo.com

Featured Premium Content

Security Governance Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

This capability maturity model can be used to measure the maturity of an organization’s security governance process and to assist its progress from the initial/ad-hoc state toward the optimized state.

Featured KLplus CPE Training Course

Classifying and Collecting Data

This course covers data types, measurement scales, and data collection methods. This course is aligned to the ASQ Body of Knowledge and is designed to assist Yellow Belt candidates toward achieving their certification. The completed course is worth 2 CPE credits.