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Chris Wright, Protiviti Managing Director and a leader with the firm's Financial Reporting Remediation & Compliance practice, talks about the effects of the new revenue recognition standard on SOX compliance activities.

Ana Amato and Jeff Tecau, managing directors with Protiviti and leaders in the firm's Internal Audit and Financial Advisory practice, review some of the detailed results from Protiviti's latest SOX Compliance Survey, including costs and hours, control counts, cybersecurity and more.

Brian Christensen, Executive Vice President – Global Internal Audit for Protiviti, discusses some of the key findings from Protiviti's 2017 Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey.

Chris Monk, Protiviti managing director and a leader with the firm's Business Performance Improvement and Supply Chain practice, and Brian Kostek, an Associate Director with Protiviti's Risk & Compliance practice, discuss third-party risk management programs in financial services organizations, including different vendor management roles, failure points and best practices.

Much as their baby boomer parents and grandparents did before them, millennials will soon be dominating the workforce and already are a key employee demographic for employers. In this podcast, we discuss the different set of learning and communication preferences millennials have compared with previous generations. Offering their comments and insights are Paul McDonald, senior executive director at Robert Half; Kelly Lovell, an acclaimed youth mobilizer and consultant; and Liz Dietrich, communications director with the internal communications and training group of Protiviti.

The Shared Assessments Program and Protiviti recently released the results of their third annual Vendor Risk Management Benchmark Study. In this podcast, Gary Roboff, Senior Advisor to Santa Fe Group and Shared Assessments Program, and Cal Slemp, Protiviti Managing Director and leader of the firm's Security Program and Strategy Services practice, discuss some of the key findings.

Mark Beasley and Jim DeLoach discuss key findings and takeaways from the Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2017 study conducted by North Carolina State University's ERM Initiative and Protiviti. Mark is the Deloitte Professor of Enterprise Risk Management at North Carolina State University and Director of the school's ERM Initiative. Jim is a Managing Director with Protiviti and a member of the firm's Solution Leadership team.

In this podcast, Protiviti managing directors Danny Rudloff (global leader for Protiviti's energy practice) and Charles Goldstein (global leader for Protiviti's restructuring and litigation practice) discuss how oil and gas companies can manage their operations and cash flow at a time when oil prices have dropped dramatically. They also discuss other strategies these companies can utilize to keep their companies afloat.

Brian Christensen, Executive Vice President, Global Internal Audit for Protiviti, discusses some of the key findings from the firm's latest SOX Compliance Survey.

Protiviti Managing Director Steve Hobbs, leader of the firm's Public Company Transformation practice, and Andrea Spinelli, a Director with Protiviti's Business Performance Improvement solution, discuss the challenges newly public companies face in the weeks and months following their IPO, and how they can tackle them effectively.