Effective Audit Committees Masterclass
What an effective audit committee actually does — expertise, information flows, challenge of executives and auditors, and measuring the committee’s own performance.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
Upcoming sessions
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An audit committee that cannot challenge its executives and auditors is decoration — and in a highly regulated financial services world, decoration is a governance risk. Audit committees carry a critical role in building trust in corporate reporting, which demands members with real expertise and knowledge of the industry and the company, above all in the chair. Led by a governance and audit expert with decades of experience attending and presenting at audit committees, this masterclass works through the committee’s role and the essential qualities of its members, its relationships with the board risk committee, external audit, internal audit and finance, the information flows and decision-making processes that make it effective — and how to measure that effectiveness.
What you will do
Who attends
- Audit committee members and chairs
- Board members and directors working with audit committees
- Heads of internal audit, external audit and finance leaders who report to the committee
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The committee’s mandate
- The audit committee’s role in governance and trust in corporate reporting
- Expertise and essential qualities of members
- The particular role of the audit committee chairperson
II.Relationships and challenge
- The relationship with the board risk committee
- Working with external audit, internal audit and finance
- Challenging executives and auditors on their reports
III.Information and effectiveness
- Managing information flows and decision-making
- Dealing with regulators and other stakeholders
- Measuring committee effectiveness — case studies and role plays
Frequently asked
Will these programmes prepare our team for supervisory review?
That is what they are built for. Casework is structured around the evidence supervisors request — risk-appetite articulation, documentation, attestation — and participants leave able to assemble the evidence trail before it is asked for and defend the framework in examination. Faculty include practitioners who have sat on the supervisor’s side of the table.
Which risk frameworks does the curriculum cover?
The risk and compliance curriculum spans enterprise risk management on the COSO framework, credit, market, liquidity and operational risk, IFRS 9 provisioning, stress testing, and financial-crime disciplines including fraud detection and AML/CFT. Each programme page states the frames it works in and what participants will build with them.
Can we attend in French?
Yes. BIZENIUS delivers in English and French, in classroom, live virtual and hybrid formats. French-language cohorts serve institutions across BCEAO jurisdictions and other francophone markets.
What happens after we enquire about a programme?
A senior practitioner replies within one business day with the brochure attached. The conversation then covers dates, format, any tailoring your institution needs, and the fee — BIZENIUS shares fees in that proposal, not on a public price list.
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One request — the full agenda, the faculty and the next cohort dates, sent personally by the admissions team.