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Audit committees: 150 best practices

Singapore Illustrative Financial Statements 2021
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Audit Committee Questions
- Reviewing and assessing financial statements
- Accounting policies judgements and estimates
- Narrative reporting and non-GAAP measures
- Oversight of risk
- Assessing internal control systems
- Fraud and whistle-blowing
- External audit scope
- Assessing external audit effectiveness
- Private sessions with the external auditor
- Internal audit scope
- Assessing internal audit effectiveness
- Private sessions with the internal auditor
- Self-evaluation
- Chairing the audit committee
- Getting the right information
- Effective audit committee conversations
- Audit Committee induction and onboarding

Reviewing and assessing financial statements
Questions audit committees might ask when reviewing and assessing financial statements

Accounting policies judgements and estimates
Questions audit committees might ask when considering accounting policies, judgments and estimates

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Questions audit committees might ask when considering narrative reporting and non-GAAP measures


Assessing internal control systems
Questions audit committees might ask when exercising oversight of internal control systems

Fraud and whistle-blowing
Questions audit committees might ask when considering fraud risk and whistle-blowing processes

External audit scope
Questions audit committees might ask when considering the scope of the external audit

Assessing external audit effectiveness
Questions audit committees might ask when assessing external audit effectiveness

Private sessions with the external auditor
Questions audit committees might ask when planning and executing their private sessions with the external auditor

Internal audit scope
Questions audit committees might ask when considering the scope of the internal audit

Assessing internal audit effectiveness
Questions audit committees might ask when assessing internal audit effectiveness

Private sessions with the internal auditor
Questions audit committees might ask when planning and executing their private sessions with the head of internal audit

Self-evaluation
Questions audit committees might ask when considering the effectiveness of the committee's performance


Getting the right information
Questions audit committees might ask when considering the propriety of information flows and whether they have access to the right information

Effective audit committee conversations
Questions audit committees might ask when considering the effectiveness of their audit committee conversations

Audit Committee induction and onboarding
Questions to ask when considering the induction and onboarding of new audit committee members
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