Board

Board evaluation

Life in the boardroom is complex.  A board review needs to look at behaviours not just processes.  At the picture the directors are given to help them question and form a view.  At the relationships with management and within the board.  At the linkages across the governance framework.  Our board evaluation will look at this and more – in a practical, sensitive way.

Find out more about our approach to board evaluation.

Board Committees

Board Committees

Boards increasingly depend on the work of the board committees.  So a board evaluation needs to look at committee effectiveness.  At the dynamics, the information, the relationships, the rigour.  Our specialist expertise in audit, risk and remuneration means we can look in depth at committee effectiveness as a specific review – or with a light touch as part of the board review.

Find out more about our approach to board committee evaluation.

Risk Governance

Risk governance

Risk is now much higher on board agendas.  How much risk is being taken – and how much risk appetite there is.  And how well they’re assessing risk and their ability to manage it.  Boards get a lot of comfort from an independent, specialist look at risk governance and the risk management framework – and management get fresh thinking on how it can be strengthened to help the business.  Look at is as part of your board evaluation or stand-alone.

Find out more about our approach to a risk governance review.

Internal Audit Review

Internal audit review

Internal audit effectiveness reviews are firmly on the management and audit committee agenda.  Good governance and international standards require a rigorous review.  And the business benefits too.  Our senior expertise brings you a different and valuable insight – a strategic perspective as well as a process review.

 

Find out more about our approach to internal audit review.

External Audit Review

External Audit Review

We help companies get to the root of external audit effectiveness – looking not just at technical excellence, but also relationships, risk assessment, planning, co-ordination and value.

We also help companies organise audit tenders and evaluate the bids.

Find out more about our approach to external audit effectiveness.

Thinking Board

Thinking Board: our web-based tool kit

Thinking Board helps you tackle the underlying issues that really matter for continuous improvement.  A time-saving, easy-to-use solution, it provides new ideas, fresh angles and different ways of asking questions across board evaluation, the committees and individual directors, risk governance and audit effectiveness.  And if you want an externally-facilitated review, we add Independent Audit’s analysis of the results, recommendations and the draft board paper.

Find out more about Thinking Board and see a demo.

Board Evaluation & Governance Reviews

Independent Audit are specialists in corporate governance.

We have exceptional credentials in board review.  We also help boards assess the effectiveness of any aspect of their governance framework and risk oversight.

We give them assurance that risk governance is sound.  We help audit committees assess external audit and internal audit effectiveness.  We help boards obtain comfort that corporate behaviour is what they intend it to be.

So what makes Independent Audit different?  We’re not just about board evaluation.  We also provide a single source of expertise in many of the different aspects of governance and board responsibility across risk, assurance and behaviour.  That’s one thing.  But you’ll also get practical recommendations in succinct reports designed for board-level use and written in our distinct style.  You’ll get senior people who operate at board level.  And the real issues at the heart of board effectiveness are considered – in a sensitive, client-specific way.

It’s all based around our core thinking.  Governance works well if it helps the business perform.  It’s not about compliance.  It’s about the way people behave, talk, report, challenge.  About how management helps the Board do its job.  And how governance helps management in providing strategic focus, showing leadership and taking risk in a controlled way.

So an Independent Audit board evaluation isn’t about giving a score.  And our governance and audit reviews aren’t about checklists and process.  We’re about providing insight and recommendations so you have a solid basis for continuous improvement.

We’ll share with you our experience of board governance and assurance across organisations of all shapes and sizes ranging from the largest global companies to small not-for-profits.  And if you’re not looking for a full external review we can support your self-assessment through our web-based tool Thinking Board.

 

Thinking Board is our web-based governance self-assessment service
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