Number Crunching: The Key Questions That Board Members Should Be Asking Their Auditors

December 11, 2009 1:45 PM 2:15 PM

Speaker: Cynthia M. Fornelli, Executive Director for the Center for Audit Quality
Robert Kueppers, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte
Cynthia Glassman, Former SEC Commissioner
Jeff Wilks, Associate Professor of Accounting, Brigham Young University


Board members have many responsibilities. One of the most crucial is digging into the financial numbers that companies are reporting. Understanding the reports can be crucial to understanding what the company should and should not be doing. Thus it is imperative that board members, especially those on the audit committees, are understanding the changing financial regulatory environment and the issues that are generating the most concern. In this special panel, our auditing experts give their view on what board members should be focused on financially and the questions that they should be asking of their CFOs and the auditors.

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