30 November, 2007
10am - 3pm
Genesis Housing Group, Capital House, 25 Chapel Street, London, NW1 5DT
The next free seminar will include a session on the new Assurance Circular 07/07. It will be lead by Jonathan Pryor (a member of the HC 25/01 review group) of Smith and Williamson and is kindly being hosted by Pat Davies at Genesis Housing Group in Central London. Attendance is free for up to three staff from member organisations.
The timetable for the day is:
10.00 Coffee on arrival
10.30 Forum Business
10.45 Housing Corporation Circular 07/07 Internal Controls Assurance - Jonathan Pryor FCA, AMCT, Smith & Williamson
Jonathan is Director of Assurance and Business Services at Smith & Williamson and leads on services to RSLs, having specialised in the sector for over 20 years; firstly with Deloitte & Touche and since 1993 with Smith & Williamson. He was a member of the Housing Corporation’s Circular 25/01 review group and has presented seminars on RSL issues on numerous occasions.
Jonathan will discuss the key differences between Circulars 25/01 and 07/07, what they mean, and how they came about.
11.30 Coffee and biscuits
11.45 Internal Controls Assurance - what we get and what we need! - Philip Winter, The Housing Corporation
As Senior Advisor (Financial Regulation) Philip is a manager within the Housing Corporation's Financial Regulation Team. He has responsibility for those areas of regulation policy that include accounting and audit and led the team that revised Circular 25/01, resulting in the publication of 07/07.
He will explain how the Corporation uses Statements of Internal Control, and then talk about what the Corporation has done/ is doing in producing a Good Practice Note to accompany the new Circular.
12.30 Internal audit: The view from the Audit Committee – Professor Sir Andrew Likierman, London Business School
Sir Andrew Likierman is Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School. He is a member of 4 Audit Committees, 2 in the public and 2 in the private sector. He works on the measurement of performance and he has written about Internal Audit, the Head of Internal Audit and the Audit Committee.
His previous roles have included Head of the Government Accountancy Service, HM Treasury. He has recently been serving on the United Nations Governance Review Committee, and was a member of the Cadbury Committee on Corporate Governance that set up much of the framework for corporate governance in the UK.
Sir Andrew has kindly agreed to share his thoughts with us on what assurance audit committees might, or should, want or expect.
1.15 Lunch
2.00 Delivering with Assurance – David Jordan, Speakeasy
David’s interest in presentation skills began in the late 1970s when he was responsible for presenting high value office machinery to ‘blue chip’ companies in London and the South East for Office International.
Later he moved into Press Relations and Copywriting and is currently a director of The Words Workshop Ltd in Milton Keynes. He joined forces with his brother Steve in 2002 to create and provide presentation skills courses with their company Speakeasy.gb.com
Most of us need to talk and maybe present to our senior management teams, audit committees and boards, and this session should help us to do it better and enjoy the experience.
3.00 Close
Telephone Nicola Fitzharris
Email nicola_fitzharris@riverside.org.uk
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Presentation - Internal Controls Assurance [Philip Winter]
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Presentation - Internal Controls Assurance [Jonathan Pryor]
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