Audit committees’ oversight responsibilities are growing well beyond their core role, thanks to global uncertainty and changing regulation.

Crisis management; auditco comms; management and risk-taking; ‘overly operational’ boards; governance standards.

Confronting fraud with ‘common sense’; what to ask the audit committee; how corporate governance enhances credibility.

Audit committees are worried that boards have failed to grasp the risk nettle. Diversity of thought, and agility to react to change, should be central to good governance.