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249: The Private-to-Public Journey

249: The Private-to-Public Journey

Exclusive case study: A little over a year ago, when publicly held Perion advanced with a deal to acquire digital agency Undertone, Michael Waxman-Lenz began preparing to exit his post as Perion’s chief strategy officer to spearhead Undertone’s private-to-public journey as its CFO.

Now, for the first time, CFO Waxman-Lenz charts the action steps and milestones that allowed his team to rapidly transform Undertone’s internal controls, allowing it to achieve initial and ongoing compliance. Plus Expert Insight: Steve Hobbs, managing director of Protiviti’s public transformation practice, joins us to reveal how firms can best develop a structured plan to meet key compliance and internal control objectives along the private-to-public journey. Finally, Susan Parcells, Senior Director of Finance Transformation, BlackLine, completes the panel as she reveals how new advances in automation are once and for all putting an end to the controls laggard mind-set inside both public and private firms.

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