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Quarterly update for audit committees

Find out how audit committees can prepare for 2024 Q2 reporting


This quarterly update for audit committees provides a summary of key developments related to risk, financial reporting, and regulatory matters. For Q2 2024, audit committees are focused on shifting macroeconomic trends, possible supply chain disruptions and reconfigurations, the political environment (including elections in the US, the UK and elsewhere) and its impact on policy matters, and generative AI (GenAI) implications. 

We expect audit committees will spend time discussing potential business implications arising from the November 5 US presidential election, including possible tax and regulatory policy impacts. Additionally, as organizations evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) use cases as the means to boost productivity and growth, there may be discussions around how organizations are building out their technology capabilities to capitalize on still-nascent use cases for GenAI.

 

Meanwhile, audit committees are also closely monitoring SEC-related activity. While the SEC issued an order staying its climate-related disclosure rules, audit committees are still keeping an eye on those proceedings as well as how companies will eventually comply with other new and emerging reporting requirements (e.g., California’s climate laws and the European Commission’s European Sustainability Reporting Standards). 


Reports from previous quarters

2024 Q1 reporting update for audit committees

What audit committees should prioritize in 2024

2023 Q3 reporting update for audit committees


Summary

As Q2 2024 comes to a close, audit committees are keeping an eye on shifting macroeconomic trends, possible supply chain disruptions and reconfigurations, the political environment and its impact on policy matters, and generative AI (GenAI) implications.

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