As Oversight Expectations Increase: How Audit Committees Stay Focused & Effective
1 CPE credit
in the field of Business Management and Organization
Audit committees are operating under unprecedented pressure. Expanding oversight expectations, heightened audit quality scrutiny, accelerating technology change, and increasingly complex risk environments are stretching agendas, information flows, and committee capacity. At the same time, audit committees must continue to deliver disciplined, independent oversight without crossing into management’s role.
Join BDO governance specialists and sitting audit committee members for a candid discussion on how high performing audit committees are recalibrating their approach to oversight. This session will go beyond emerging issues to focus on how audit committees are structuring agendas, sharpening information flow, and reinforcing accountability to sustain audit quality and effective oversight in a rapidly evolving environment. Panelists will share practical insights on where audit committees are focusing time and attention, how responsibilities are being clarified and coordinated, and what separates effective audit committee oversight from compliance driven activity.
After this session, participants should be able to:
- Identify emerging risks and oversight challenges that are currently reshaping audit committee agendas, including the impact of technology, data, and evolving regulatory and stakeholder expectations.
- Evaluate leading practices boards are using to allocate oversight responsibilities to audit committees, and how audit committees are coordinating with other board committees and maintaining appropriate boundaries between oversight and management execution.
- Recognize key questions and performance indicators audit committees should prioritize to strengthen oversight discipline and focus committee time on the most decision critical matters.
- Describe effective approaches to audit committee communications, collaboration, and reporting, including interactions with management, internal and external auditors, and regulators that support transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making.
Program Level: Basic
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