With heightened awareness of the need for corporate governance, American boardrooms are immersed in increasingly intense discussions about the issues of risk and compliance. With these new concerns, directors of public companies are under the microscope more so than ever before. While financial risk remains paramount, all systemic risks lead to financial risk in one way or another.
This survey explores not only financial risk, but the other important areas of risk being discussed in boardrooms, such as regulatory compliance and reputational risk, as well as how boards gain insight on new topics of interest to their companies. The survey results along with our analysis are presented in this report. These insights could impact your thinking and, we hope, spur important discussions.
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The executive summary outlines our results, but we invite you to read on to understand more about what we are hearing from board members. Risk and compliance are always hot topics. However with regulatory changes, the effect of the recessions and an uncertain recovery still very much top of mind; these topics are commanding the agendas of boardrooms.
We hope you find this report useful and that you’ll share your thoughts and ideas with us.
Click below to read and download the report from Directorship and Eisner LLP.