What audit committees need to know for 2025

This webcast will prepare audit committees and management teams for year-end meetings and explore top issues for audit committees heading into 2025.

Join the EY Center for Board Matters on December 19 at 3:00 p.m. ET for another episode in our webcast series, Better Questions for Boards, designed to provide directors with insights and questions to consider as they engage with management on a variety of complex boardroom issues.

This 60-minute webcast will prepare audit committees and management teams for upcoming year-end meetings and explore top-of-mind issues for audit committees heading into 2025. Planned discussion topics include:

• The macroeconomic outlook. Find out what’s expected at a global macroeconomic level, including interest rate expectations and related effects, how the labor markets are shifting and what these key economic variables will mean for businesses broadly.
  
• A view from Washington, DC. Hear insights about the possible immediate and longer-term effects of the US election results, including related implications to businesses.
• Tax policy developments. Learn about the impacts and opportunities presented by recent tax policy developments.
• Financial reporting. Stay current on emerging financial reporting and regulatory developments, including key takeaways from the 2024 AICPA conference related to SEC and PCAOB matters and other important year-end reminders and considerations.

The discussion will be moderated by Patrick Niemann, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP, and Americas Leader of the EY Audit Committee Forum. Panelists will include:

• Lauren Alexander, Partner, National Professional Practice, Ernst & Young LLP
• Karen Dynan, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Angela Evans, EY Americas Co-director of Tax Accounting and Risk Advisory Services
• Kristi Kennedy, Director, Office of Public Policy, Ernst & Young LLP