Spotting internal audit risk areas

ICAEW January 2020

ICAEW’s Internal Audit Panel has identified eight risk areas where boards and audit committees should be asking themselves whether they are receiving the objective assurance they need amid increased public scrutiny.

How do you know if your audit committee is effective

Audit Committees are playing an increasingly critical corporate governance role in terms of their leadership on financial reporting, internal controls, risk management and the internal and external audit functions.

Smaller Listed and AIM Quoted Companies

Designed to give investors, and other users, the ability to assess the financial integrity of a company, financial reporting and compliance with relevant reporting frameworks is an essential tool for holding management to account. More than this, high quality financial reporting can contribute to a strong and efficient economy by improving transparency and liquidity and thereby lowering the cost of capital.

Bid to improve smaller company financial reporting

June 2019

A new guide designed to help audit committees of smaller listed and AIM quoted companies improve their financial reporting has been published by ICAEW and the FRC.

9 Traits of an effective Audit Committee

Corporate Governance Community September 2018

Having an effective Audit Committee is essential for good corporate governance as it leads on financial reporting, internal controls, risk management and external audit functions.

Whistleblowing and the Audit Committee

Having a trustworthy whistleblowing process in place has become increasingly important as more and more high profile whistleblowers come to prominence in the media.

Internal audit - Members opinions

Martyn Scrivens | Mary Hardy May 2015

In the February issue of Finance & Management, we published an article by Robin Pritchard, focusing on the need for audit committees to demand more of their internal audit function, and for internal audit to take a more proactive role in the business. Here two veterans of internal audit give their responses.

Lines of defence

Robin Pritchard February 2015

Professor Robin Pritchard considers the critical role that audit committees and internal audit must play in the governance of a successful organisation.

Audit tendering

Audit Review has published a Technical Note about the requirements of the revised UK Corporate Governance Code and Guidance on Audit Committees.

Not so fast, Mr Thorpe

In issue 62 of FS Focus, the FSA's Richard Thorpe expressed serious doubts about whether financial services firms' internal audit functions were fit for purpose.