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1. Please indicate your age by selecting the relevant option: |
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2. Please indicate where you are employed or render your services to? Please select the relevant option: |
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| 3. Please indicate at which department you are employed or render services to: | | |
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4. Which professional qualifications do you hold currently? |
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5. Has your department established a formal audit committee? |
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6. Does your audit committee have an approved audit committee charter in place? |
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7. Is your audit committee charter reviewed annually and revised accordingly? |
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8. How many audit committee members are serving currently on your audit committee? |
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| 9. How many audit committee members come from within the department? Please specify the number: | | |
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| 10. How many audit committee members come from outside the public sector? Please specify the number: | | |
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11. Please specify the number of audit committee members who are executive members, non-executive members, and the number of Audit Committee Financial Experts:
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12. How many times per year does your audit committee meet formally?
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13. Did the quorum of audit committee members attend all the meetings during the year? |
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14. Do your audit committee members and yourself receive the material 5 or more working days before the next audit committee meeting to allow for adequate preparation time? Please select the relevant option: |
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15. In your opinion, is your audit committee collectively adequately skilled to discharge their responsibilities? |
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16. How would you rate the knowledge level of each of your audit committee members with regards to the following areas? Please indicate by specifying EXCELLENT(1), GOOD(2), AVERAGE(3) or POOR(4) in the option area. Where not relevant, please mark N/A.
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17. Do your audit committee members display any of the following attributes listed? Please specify by completing the available block as either YES (Y) or NO (N). Where not relevant, please mark N/A.
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18. Please indicate which 5 attributes do you consider most important by selecting your 5 top attributes: |
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19. Which of the following are appointment criteria for new audit committee members? Please select relevant option(s): |
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20. Is there an induction process in place for new audit committee members i.e. induction pack and/ or induction meeting? Please select the relevant option: |
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21. Please indicate which of the following is part of the induction criteria: Please select the relevant option(s): |
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22. Do you consider an induction process for new audit committee members a necessity? Please select the relevant option: |
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23. Is self monitoring/ assessment performed on the effectiveness of the audit committee? Please select the relevant option: |
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24. Which of the following factors forms part of self monitoring/ assessment performed on the effectiveness of the audit committee? Please select the relevant option(s): |
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25. Are individual audit committee members’ performance evaluations completed on a regular basis? Please select the relevant option: |
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26. How often are the individual performance evaluations performed? Please select the relevant option: |
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27. By whom are the individual performance evaluations performed? Please select the relevant option(s): |
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28. What type of individual performance evaluation is performed? Please select the relevant option(s): |
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29. Is there a continued professional development process in place, to ensure understanding of the financial, accounting and auditing principles? Please select the relevant option: |
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30. How often is training provided/ presented? Please select the relevant option: |
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31. In what form is the training presented/ provided? Please select the relevant option(s): |
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On which of the following areas have your audit committee members received training in the form of internally, externally, web based or other ? Please select relevant option(s):
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33. On which of the following areas do you feel is training required for the skills of your audit committee members to be adequate collectively? Please select the relevant option(s): |
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34. How important do you consider ongoing education for audit committee members? |
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