audit committee

collocation in English

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audit
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.dɪt/us
/ˈɑː.dɪt/
an official examination of the accounts of ...
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committee
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/kəˈmɪt.i/us
/kəˈmɪt̬.i/
a small group of people chosen to represent a larger organization and either make decisions or collect information ...
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(Definition ofauditandcommitteefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We are supervised indirectly, for example, by people with experience in banking supervision who we involve in ourauditcommittee.
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He believed that they should be there as a form ofauditcommittee.
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The board's safetyauditcommitteemonitors the safety of operations across all the subsidiary companies.
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I suggest that one of the items that would have to be considered would be the appointment or re-appointment of anauditcommittee.
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That is what some of us sought earlier when we emphasised the possibility of an environmentalauditcommittee.
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We have to consider a series of choices about the way in which anauditcommitteewould be constituted.
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The public will not know what anauditcommitteeactually intends to do and what safeguards it provides.
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Occasionally the chairman of the board, or the board itself, will give theauditcommitteespecific tasks.
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While the provision of interpreters for the immigration service is generally satisfactory, the recommendations of the complaintsauditcommitteeare under consideration.
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We are suggesting auditor rotation and a role for theauditcommittee.
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Fourthly, anauditcommitteewould strengthen the independence of the audit function, and not merely the external audit function, but the internal one as well.
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The third advantage of anauditcommitteeis that it strengthens the objectivity and credibility of financial reporting.
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The point about anauditcommitteeis that it can be properly and fully informed about matters on which non-executive directors are often not informed.
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It is necessary to say something about what we mean by this concept of theauditcommittee.
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Is theauditcommitteesuitable for a public sector com pany?
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How can theauditcommitteementioned in the new clause perform its functions unless it sees accounts?
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The auditors should be responsible direct to anauditcommitteeof the board.
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We intend to appoint a complaintsauditcommittee, comprising three members.
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I therefore endorse the committee's suggestion that banks should appoint anauditcommitteeand finance director where they do not already have them.
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I am deputy chairman of an international bank and chairman of itsauditcommittee.
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The key point of the clause is that the directors of a company will be expressly excluded from membership of the specialauditcommittee.
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