Governance and risk management
The Treasury works to improve government's capability to handle risk and uncertainty by providing guidance on governance, risk management, internal audit and fraud.
Governance
- Accounting Officers and the Treasury´s role
- Corporate governance in Central Government departments: code of good practice
- Dear Accounting Officer letters
- Guide to scrutiny of public expenditure
- Managing public money
- Regularity, propriety and value for money
- The Government´s commitments in response to the Sharman Review, including the Audit Liaison Group
- Audit Committee Handbook
Internal Audit
- Government Internal Audit Standards and good practice guidance
- Head of Internal Audit letters index
- Internal audit training and development handbook
- Internal Audit Quality Assessment Framework
Fraud
Risk
- Risk Programme:
- Treasury Guidance on risk
- Risk Improvement Managers (RIM) network
- Risk Management: Definitions
- Risk Management: Useful links
- Thinking about risk
- Good practice guide
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Media links
External links
- Institute of Internal Audit
- Institute of Risk management
- ALARM - The National Forum for Risk Management in the Public Sector

