Dan's Internal Audit Corner
Is Governance Effective Within Your Organization?
By Dan Swanson
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What dialogue is occurring within your organization regarding organizational governance? Is everyone on the same page re what organizational governance is and what we are trying to accomplish?
I believe its time for all stakeholders to discuss and agree to the many roles and responsibilities that are involved with organizational governance.
See below for some leading resources to assist in your discussion.
Have another great month.
Regards.
Dan
Internal Audit
The IIA's position statement regarding Organizational Governance.
In my view this is one of the most important papers that the IIA has issued in the past six to seven years.
The Role of Auditing in Public Sector Governance.
Corporate Governance
Frequently Asked Questions in Corporate Governance (FAQs)
As directors, officers, and advisors work to safeguard and build the value of corporations, they often encounter new corporate governance issues and turn to NACD for answers. Below are some of the questions that our members and others have asked us in recent times, along with some brief answers and links to our current resources.
Tottel’s Corporate Governance Handbook, Third Edition
Tottel’s Corporate
Governance Handbook provides invaluable, practical guidance to help
you ensure your company functions legally and ethically. Corporate
governance is playing an increasing part, not just in how companies
are run, but also how they appear to be run from the outside. The
new edition of Tottel’s Corporate Governance Handbook has been
brought right up-to-date to provide practical and readable advice on
how to ensure your company meets the required standards.
The NEW, fully updated edition includes:
- Checklist for implementing the 2003 Combined Code
- Assessing board and director performance
- The on-going review of the Turnbull Report by the Flint Committee
- HM Treasury policy on audit committees and governance of pension schemes
- European corporate governance developments and NYSE corporate governance rules
- And much more.
NACD
Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) reports.
www.nacdonline.org
1. The NACD BRC on Board Evaluation - 2005 Edition
2. The NACD BRC on Board Leadership
3. The NACD BRC on Director Compensation
4. The NACD BRC on Audit Committees
5. The NACD BRC on Director Professionalism
6. The NACD BRC on Role of the Board in Corporate Strategy
7. The NACD BRC on Risk Oversight
Board Governance – Deloitte’s Governance Repository
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