Integrated Assurance : Risk Governance Beyond Boundaries (Paperback)

Contents: Foreword; Preface. Part I Introduction - the Case for Integrated Assurance: Governance in the New Order: Corporate governance on trial; Risk taking and oversight; Assurance against excessive risk taking; Openness and transparency; Accountability; Rethinking assurance. Part II Risk Assurance beyond Boundaries: Seeking the holistic risk and assurance picture; Assurance in a three lines of defence model; The current faces of integrated assurance; Defining a framework for integrated assurance. Part III Implementing Integrated Assurance: Integrated risk assurance mapping; Integrated assurance at Level 1; Integrated assurance at Level 2; Integrated assurance at Level 3; Getting started; Key implementation challenges. Part IV Case Studies: Introduction; Audit committee approval of audit plans; Reviewing the need for an internal audit function; Optimising risk assurance in a fast growing entity; Enhancing risk governance to match growth ambitions; Optimising risk assurance in line with strategic change; Sharpening and simplifying risk governance and assurance; A deep dive risk oversight for a subsidiary; Spotlighting a risk for oversight and assurance; Promoting collective risk intelligence. Bibliography; Index.