Drawing on insights from our survey work and interactions with audit committees and business leaders, we’ve highlighted eight items that audit committees should keep in mind as they consider and carry out their 2017 agendas.
Financial reporting, compliance, and the risk and internal control environment will continue to be put to the test in 2017 by slow growth and economic uncertainty, technology advances and business model disruption, cyber risk, greater regulatory scrutiny, and investor demands for transparency, as well as dramatic political swings and policy changes in the U.S., UK, and elsewhere. Focused, yet flexible agendas—exercising judgment about what does and does not belong on the committee’s agenda and when to take deep dives—will be critical. Drawing on insights from our recent survey work and interactions with audit committees and business leaders over the past 12 months, we’ve highlighted eight items that audit committees should keep in mind as they consider and carry out their 2017 agendas.
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