'Improving the Effectiveness of your Audit Committee'

This workshop, specifically designed for chairs of audit committees and other more experienced audit committee members was led by Chris Swinson OBE, the Comptroller & Auditor General of the States of Jersey who also serves on a number of public sector boards and audit committees. He is a former chair of HM Treasury's Audit Committee.

An opportunity for members of audit committees to air issues they have and discuss solutions in a peer and supportive environment, the session was structured around the issues of topical interest to audit committee members representing a cross section of public authorities here.

The programme covered:

• Membership of committees
• Skills, knowledge, commitment, behaviours
• Relationships with accounting officers, the executive, internal and external auditors, and the Northern Ireland Audit Office
• What success looks like (openness, risk, confidence)
• Things that often go wrong
• Remedies

Chris Swinson trained as a chartered accountant after reading philosophy, politics and economics at Wadham College, Oxford. He was a senior partner of BDO Stoy Hayward. He was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales serving on many professional committees including the Auditing Practices Committee and the Accounting Standards Committee.

For more information contact Kim McKnight, (T) 02890 347400