The past decade has seen outsourcing continue to grow, transforming the business models of many companies. Outsourcing brings a wide variety of benefits. For many, it gives flexibility of service allowing you to scale up or scale down quickly. For others it allows access to best practices or technology. And of course it can reduce…
As you do on a Friday, we have been having another read of the “Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies”, published in December 2018 and which will apply to company reporting for financial years starting on or after 1 January 2019. We should start seeing their impact in Annual Reports being published during…
The three lines of defence model is a ubiquitous concept to anyone involved in audit, internal control or compliance. In a nutshell, it can be summarised as: – 1st line of Defence – functions that have ownership, responsibility and accountability for directly assessing, controlling and mitigating risks, i.e. operational management 2nd line of Defence –…
5th Annual New Generation Operational Risk: Europe 12th & 13th March 2019 – London ICE will be exhibiting at The Center for Financial Professionals highly anticipated New Generation Operational Risk: Europe conference taking place in London, 12 – 13 March. This event is a chance to meet with 100+ industry experts at this leading 2019 operational risk Conference…
