Audit Committee

Results and takeaways from our latest survey of audit committee members and chairs

Takeaways from the latest KPMG survey of audit committee members

A joint report of the KPMG Board Leadership Center and NACD

A quarterly update for audit committees on accounting and financial reporting developments, including SEC matters and an ESG reporting update.

AI governance and oversight; preparing for quantum computing; diversity and driving innovation and African American board representation

Aaron Kemp, a director with KPMG Advisory Technology Risk, discusses the risks and opportunities posed by quantum computing.

Seven issues for not-for-profit audit committees to keep in mind as they consider and carry out their 2023 agendas.

Seven issues for higher education audit committees to keep in mind as they consider and carry out their 2023 agendas.

Priorities for board and audit committee agendas, our chief economist on measuring what matters, and a financial reporting and auditing update.

Eight priorities for audit committees to focus on

Eight issues for audit committees to keep in mind as they carry out their 2023 agendas.

Nine issues for boards to keep in mind as they carry out their 2023 agendas.

Five issues for compensation committees to keep in mind as they consider and carry out their 2023 agendas.

Audit committee oversight of critical alignments—of strategy, risks, incentives, performance metrics, internal controls, and more.

ESG and management’s disclosure committee, evolving expectations of chief audit executives, and conversations on geopolitics, civil rights audits, and the metaverse.

Amid demand for higher quality ESG disclosures, clarifying the role and responsibilities of management’s disclosure committee should be front and center.

Stephen Brown of the KPMG Board Leadership Center offers five ways for CAEs to better anticipate the needs of today’s audit committee.

Midyear observations shaping board agendas, financial reporting developments, getting better at assessing talent, what workers want, and proxy season takeaways.

As boards and their committees continue to calibrate their agendas in response to ongoing disruption and uncertainty, we offer midyear observations to On the 2022 board agenda.

Boards may need to reassess whether their delegation of risk oversight responsibilities is clear, properly aligned, and coordinated.

A library of topical briefings covering a range of challenges and priorities shaping the board, audit committee, and private company governance agendas, including cybersecurity, auditing and accounting, tax issues, sustainability and more.

Eight issues for audit committees to keep in mind as they consider and carry out their 2022 agendas.