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Risk and corporate governance

The Risk and Corporate Governance team at Baker Tilly draws upon a range of complementary services in order to ensure that businesses not only comply with their regulatory requirements but also that they improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes.
 
Baker Tilly's experts provide more than a simple assessment of financial controls. Our multi-disciplinary team can help you in:
  • identifying improvements to business processes
  • examining and assessing corporate governance procedures
  • providing full or complementary internal audits
  • reviewing and refining enterprise risk management
  • facilitating Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory compliance.
In every case, the starting point is usually the same: to fully understand the requirements of the client and to gain a detailed understanding of the business processes being reviewed and their impact upon the business as a whole.
Only by identifying the weaknesses, as well the strengths, of your current processes can we help you to improve the effectiveness (controls) and efficiency of the processes under review.
 
One of the first questions we will always ask ourselves is: do we believe we can really help?
 
At Baker Tilly we will never take an engagement on unless we are absolutely sure we can improve the current processes and therefore add value to a client's business.
 
A service aimed at directors and company boards, Baker Tilly's risk and corporate governance team works with established clients within the FTSE 250 index.

Our services

Business process improvement

Baker Tilly's experts can help you evaluate and improve your business and back office processes. We can help you analyse where you might be losing profitability or productivity due to weaknesses within your business processes.

Enterprise risk management

Using our risk navigator tool we can easily identify the key risks facing a business and what management has in place to mitigate against the risks, furthermore we can test managements controls to identify if in fact they are working as management expect.

Internal audit

Our expert auditors take a risk-based approach, identifying the areas that are of most risk to an organisation's operational effectiveness.

Sarbanes - Oxley / JSOx / regulatory compliance

Baker Tilly's experts will work with management in order to ensure that a risk based approach to compliance is adopted, this will help to ensure that the cost of compliance is minimised where appropriate.

Recent publications

UK Corporate Governance Code - Embracing the change

The new UK Corporate Governance Code introduced in April 2010 applies to all companies with a Premium Listing of equity shares.

Internal audit, internal controls and risk management – are you properly assured?

Are you sure that risks continue to be regularly reviewed and updated, appropriate internal controls have been put into place and the controls implemented are working efficiently, effectively and reliably?

Related links

ICSA awards raising standards

The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) has launched a national awards scheme to reward best practice in corporate governance reporting.
 
The awards will promote better quality reporting and greater transparency and aim to encourage companies to consider how their governance arrangements can function better to protect and enhance shareholder value. The awards seek to ensure that accurate disclosure on best practice governance becomes the norm in UK companies.