Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Key Terms -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART I: INTRODUCTION - THE CASE FOR INTEGRATED ASSURANCE -- 1 Corporate Governance on Trial -- Corporate Governance - The Dog that didn't Bark? -- Defective Information, Intelligence and the 'One Truth' -- Modernising Corporate Governance in the New Order -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 2 Risk Taking and Oversight -- Nature of Excessive and Blind Risk Taking -- Putting Risk Governance at the Heart of Corporate Governance -- Challenges in Risk Oversight Widen Cracks in Governance -- Being Alert to Limitations in Risk Information -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 3 Assurance against Excessive Risk Taking -- Intrinsic Link between Attitude to Risk Taking and Decision Making -- Managing Risks within the Board's Appetite -- Risk Oversight: Compliance with the Board's Risk Appetite -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 4 Openness and Transparency -- Transparency beyond Regulatory Compulsion -- Malfunctioning Risk Compass Obscures Board Oversight -- Avoiding Blind Trust and being Blindsided -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 5 Accountability -- Personal Accountability - Doing the Right Things versus Doing Things Right -- Corporate Accountability -- The Link between Assurance and Accountability -- Regulatory Spotlight on Personal and Corporate Accountability -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 6 Rethinking Assurance -- Assurance - Fact or Emotion -- Aligning Assurance with Expectations -- Maintaining Confidence in the Assurance Transaction -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes.

PART II: RISK ASSURANCE BEYOND BOUNDARIES -- 7 Seeking the Holistic Risk and Assurance Picture -- A Plan to Inspire Confidence across the Assurance Food Chain -- The Need for a Joined Up and Holistic Risk Picture -- Seeking Risk Intelligence - When More is Less -- Working Beyond Functional Boundaries to Gain Collective Intelligence -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 8 Assurance in a Three Lines of Defence Model -- Key Principles of the Three Lines of Defence Model -- Interpreting the Three Lines of Defence Model -- Common Debates in Applying the Three Lines of Defence Model -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 9 The Current Faces of Integrated Assurance -- Different Interpretations of Integrated Assurance -- Integrated Assurance for a Particular Portfolio of Risk -- Integrated Assurance for Risks across the Enterprise -- Integrated Assurance from the Perspective of an Assurance Provider -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 10 Defining a Framework for Integrated Assurance -- What Good Looks Like from the Lens of the Board -- Defining the Integrated Assurance Framework -- Applying Integrated Assurance at Three Levels -- Key Components of an Integrated Assurance Framework -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- PART III: IMPLEMENTING INTEGRATED ASSURANCE -- 11 Integrated Risk Assurance Mapping -- Introduction -- Key Steps to Mapping Risk Assurance -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- 12 Integrated Assurance at Level 1 -- Introduction -- Defining the Assessment Criteria at Level 1 Application -- Assurance Mapping at Level 1 -- Analysis and Reporting at Level 1 -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- 13 Integrated Assurance at Level 2.

Introduction -- Characterising Quality of Risk Assurance Activity -- Defining the Assessment Criteria at Level 2 Application -- Evaluation and Practical Application of Level 2 Assurance Map -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- 14 Integrated Assurance at Level 3 -- Introduction -- Stage One - Assessing Confidence in Risk Assurance -- Stage Two - Promoting Shared Risk Intelligence -- Other Practical Applications at Level 3 -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 15 Getting Started -- Introduction -- Key Question #1 - What is the Nature of the Problem? -- Key Question #2 - How Mature is Risk Management? -- Key Question #3 - What is the Mindset of the Organisation? -- Key Question #4 - What Resources and Expertise are Required? -- Key Question #5 - What is the Scope of the Implementation? -- Specifying the Benefits -- Defining the Success Criteria -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- 16 Key Implementation Challenges -- Introduction -- Challenge #1 - Absence of a Universally Defined Framework -- Challenge #2 - Maturity of Risk Management -- Challenge #3 - Ownership -- Challenge #4 - Availability of Appropriate Resources and Skills -- Challenge #5 - Champion at the Top -- Challenge #6 - Coordination and Collaboration -- To Conclude this Chapter … -- Key Points from this Chapter -- Endnotes -- PART IV: CASE STUDIES -- Case Studies: Introduction -- Case Study 1 Audit Committee Approval of Audit Plans -- Case Study 2 Reviewing the Need for an Internal Audit Function -- Case Study 3 Optimising Risk Assurance in a Fast Growing Entity -- Case Study 4 Enhancing Risk Governance to Match Growth Ambitions -- Case Study 5 Optimising Risk Assurance in Line with Strategic Change -- Case Study 6 Sharpening and Simplifying Risk Governance and Assurance.

Case Study 7 A Deep Dive Risk Oversight for a Subsidiary -- Case Study 8 Spotlighting a Risk for Oversight and Assurance -- Case Study 9 Promoting Collective Risk Intelligence -- Bibliography -- Index.