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How are boards managing an increasing varied set of risks?
- Oct 2025
- ICAEW Insights
Risk management cannot focus on financial resilience alone. For organisations to remain competitive, their board members must take a holistic view. Find out how.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Breakout 1: Internal controls and risk management frameworks - getting ready for January 2026
- Jun 2025
- ICAEW
This article, summarising the session at the 2025 ICAEW Corporate Governance conference, looks at key challenges in preparing for Provision 29 of the 2024 Corporate Governance Code, effective from January 2026.
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DATA ANALYTICS COMMUNITY
Comparing the CDO and CFO in the modern enterprise
- Apr 2025
- Craig Stirk
In an era where data can rival capital as the most valuable corporate asset, two C-suite roles have emerged as strategic cornerstones of enterprise decision-making – the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the Chief Data Officer (CDO). As organisations grapple with digital transformation, regulatory pressures and the latest AI hype cycle, understanding the distinction and interplay between these roles is more critical than ever.
How to reap the benefits of a shadow board
- May 2024
- ICAEW Insights
A turbulent business environment is galvanising support for the concept of the shadow board. A new ICAEW guide explains how they work, how your organisation might benefit and the main considerations for setting one up.
Boards must seek assurance on supply chain security
- Jan 2024
- ICAEW Insights
A new report paints a stark picture of the potential fallout for businesses and consumers from supply chain disruption, including empty shelves, damaged reputations and business losses.
Boards must be more cyber savvy, says report
- Sep 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Low levels of cyber expertise among board members and an overt deference towards jargon-focused CISOs cited as key vulnerabilities in corporate governance.
Cyber risk management – a board level responsibility
- Sep 2023
- Mitigo
Mitigo highlight why senior leaders must take responsibility for their cyber risk management to counter a growing threat.
The role of boards in managing risk
- Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
The raft of risks facing a business are more complex, interrelated, and fast-moving than ever before. Good risk management, therefore, is key to helping organisations thrive – not just survive. We examine how boards can help their organisations manage risk more effectively and foster resilience in such uncertain times.
How businesses approach fraud risk: the audit committee view
- Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
What are the key factors behind the emergence of fraud risks and how should organisations ensure their controls are fit for purpose? Two experienced audit committee chairs provide their thoughts.
A scenario planning guide for boards
- Oct 2022
- ICAEW Insights
To conduct rich and engaging strategic conversations with the executive team in a world of deep uncertainties and surprises, boards are helped by using scenario planning.
How scenarios help navigate an uncertain world
- Oct 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Running the Shell Scenarios team from 2006 to 2022, Jeremy Bentham played a key role in identifying the risks and opportunities facing the energy giant.
Talk of progress on ethnic board representation ‘premature’
- Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Targets set out by Parker Review for ethnic minority representation on boards risk being a tick-box exercise, experts warn.
VOLUNTEERING COMMUNITY
What to include in your charity’s investment policy?
- May 2022
- Heather Lamont
- Volunteering Community Newsletter
Why it’s important to get clear about your income and capital growth expectations, express your board’s risk appetite with a quantified risk budget and to communicate your priorities clearly to asset managers.
Boards, strategic risk and dealing with uncertainty: looking at scenario planning
- Mar 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Now more than ever boards need to prepare for strategic risks and look beyond short-term forecasts by using long-term scenario planning and risk modelling.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
How should boards harness risk management to ensure future resilience?
- Sep 2021
- Sarah Gordon
The ability to not only survive but thrive in uncertain conditions is increasingly the understanding of what is meant by organisational resilience.
Thinking in numbers: at the heart of national infrastructure
- Feb 2021
- ICAEW Insight
16 February 2021: Kathryn Cearns OBE, amongst her many other appointments, is a Non-executive
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
Five questions director should ask about climate risk
- Dec 2019
- Julia Root-Gutteridge
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
Climate change and sustainability has been placed firmly in the spotlight of media and society’s attention. Focus is now turning even more to the business world to play its part.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
How do you know if your audit committee is effective
- Jul 2019
- Tom Quincey, David Alexander
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
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.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
9 Traits of an effective Audit Committee
- Sep 2018
- Corporate Governance Community
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
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.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY
Resilience – more than a buzz word?
- Aug 2016
- Mark Stock
PwC’s Mark Stock highlights how internal auditors are in a unique position to review how effectively an organisation can respond to change.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY
How can internal audit assess business continuity and crisis management plans?
- Aug 2016
- Mark Stock
PwC’s Mark Stock looks at the important role that internal audit can play in helping businesses to prepare for the unexpected.
ICAEW Technical Release 01/13CFF
- Mar 2013
- PDF (406kb)
Guidance on financial position and prospects procedures
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
Part 2 - internal audit for directors
- Sep 2012
- Mark Stock
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
In the second part of this series, Mark Stock now considers some questions that boards and audit committees might ask about their internal audit and compliance functions.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
Part 1 – internal audit for directors
- Sep 2012
- Mark Stock
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
In this first of two articles, which considers questions that a board director might ask of their organisation’s compliance and internal audit functions, Mark Stock starts with a reminder of the three lines of defence (3LD) model.
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