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An Operational Perspective to Risk Assessment
Making Your Risk Assessments Count: An Operational Perspective to Risk AssessmentOperational assessment is often directed to assessing performance against quality...
Important Factors of Data Analytics You Need to Know
Auditors can use data analytics to avoid the massive waste spending that often goes hand-in-hand with hiring outside vendors and contractors. This technique doesn...
Guide to the State of Data Analytics
What is Data Analytics?Data analytics is the practice of embedding insight into operations to drive business strategy and performance.What Does this Mean?With the...
Developing Budgets: What You Need to Know
In a previous blog on Managing Mergers and Acquisitions KPIs, we discussed what exactly key performance indicators are:“KPIs are generally defined as quantifiable...
Are You Properly Managing Cash Flow Risks?
Cash flow management is the mobilization of company funds, the investment of these funds to produce income and compensation of the banks that support the process....
Five Essential Lines of Defense You Need to Know for Managing Risk
Organizations have learned many lessons over the years from specific financial crises. For example, if a chief executive ignores the warning signs posed by ...
A Guide to Self-Assessment Value Proposition
Self-assessment is a process through which an organization utilizes its internal knowledge to identify and assess uncertainties and the extent to which current pr...
Intellectual Property: Risks You Need to Know
Copyright pirates, brand impersonators, patent flouters and trade secret thieves are a major threat to businesses, given their increased aggressiveness toward int...
Close-the-Books Guide: Reduce Financial Close Risk
A fast, close-the-books process provides multiple benefits for the finance function and for the company. First, a fast close process creates more time for finance...
What You Need to Know About Robotic Process Automation
Are You Familiar With Robotic Process Automation?Robotic process automation (RPA) has been gaining traction as an efficient way to automate labor-intensive and re...
