Despite Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, audit committee influence over hiring the outside auditor and setting the audit fees remains more of a hope than a reality, according to a new study. The study, by ...

The Center for Audit Quality has released its 2024 “Audit Committee Practices Report: Common Threads Across Audit Committees.” The report highlights the top five audit committee priorities identified ...

The issues competing for time on the audit committee’s agenda — including cybersecurity and IT risks, supply chain and other operational risks, legal and regulatory compliance, climate disclosures and ...

The committee will be made of seven community members with experience in finances and public accounting to help the school board understand the external audit process.

The role played by public company audit committees in cybersecurity risk oversight continues to increase, while some audit committees are beginning to take on ESG oversight, according to the 2022 ...

The post-Enron world of corporate governance was apparent at a recent meeting of the six directors on toolmaker Cooper Industries' audit committee. The meeting took four hours, twice as long as usual, ...

Despite pandemic-related concerns about the ability of auditors to work effectively, 98% of audit committee members said in a new survey that audit quality either increased (32%) or stayed the same ...

City Council will form a committee to review the annual audit of City Hall. City officials had recommended that council stick to its current practice of reviewing the audit publicly as full body, ...

The boards will appoint a total of seven community members to serve in one or two-year terms that follow the fiscal calendar. Committee members will serve as liaisons between the school board and ...

The National Vaccine Institute (NVI) has marked a significant milestone with the inauguration of its first Audit Committee, aimed at strengthening institutional capacity.