Governance

Robust, scalable and sustainable governance frameworks are essential to support the appropriate people within an entity make the right decisions wherever required.

Effective governance frameworks comprise interconnected activities including structures such as Boards, Committees and Executives Teams. It also includes decision-making authority cascaded throughout the entity that is aligned to risk appetite and supports single-point accountability and transparent, accurate, complete and timely reporting.

Grant Thornton works with you to assess, design or improve your governance framework or its component parts. This extends from Board effectiveness reviews through to consideration of how decision-making authorities and performance goals are cascaded throughout the organisation to the bottom-up design and delivery of reporting to the Board and Executive.  

Other service offerings include:

Corporate governance design

• Governance framework assessments
• Development of governance frameworks
• Governance training

Board effectiveness reviews

• Designing appropriate board structures
• Assessing board and director performance
• Board succession planning