Guidance for Audit Committees.

• Author: Heffes, Ellen M.
• Position: Brief Article

A newly published reference book aims to help corporate directors, executives and their advisers better understand and comply with new SEC financial reporting regulations, as well as the extensive new listing requirements being enacted by the major stock exchanges. Specifically, Audit Committees: Regulation and Practice addresses detailed legal and regulatory considerations for audit committees.

Subjects include: creating, maintaining and advising audit committees; identifying issues of committee composition; ongoing considerations of required disclosure; changing audit committee membership; understanding potential liabilities...