Year-end toolkit: Strengthening audit committee collaboration

We continue our year-end toolkit series with insights on key areas of the year-end accounting and reporting process. Today’s episode focuses on the finance team’s engagement with the audit committee, which faces a packed agenda and expanding oversight responsibilities. We explore how management can strengthen collaboration with those charged with governance, streamline reporting, and address emerging issues such as AI, enterprise risk management, and transformation initiatives. In this episode, we discuss: 1:18 – Strengthening management/audit committee communication and collaboration 10:10 – Key year-end issues finance teams should be prepared to address 15:02 – Oversight of AI: risks, opportunities, and controls 21:33 – Enhancing enterprise risk oversight 27:35 – Navigating the evolving cyber risk landscape in the age of AI 36:05 – Elevating proxy disclosures For more, watch the replay of our Year-end audit committee webcast and read our publication, Your year-end audit committee guide . In case you missed it, check out the previous episode in this year-end miniseries: Year-end toolkit: Accounting and reporting reminders for 2026 Year-end toolkit: Materiality assessments Year-end toolkit: Cash flow classification Be sure to follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app and

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This episode is 44:31 long.

This episode was published on Jan 27, 2026.

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