Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Corporate Governance Statement for the year ended 31 March 2022
Regulatory Board (continued)The remit of the Regulatory Board is to provide independent oversight of ACCA’s regulatory arrangements
for complaints and discipline, education and learning, examinations, licensing and practice monitoring, and to report to ACCA’s Council on the fairness and impartiality of these activities. Placing oversight of ACCA’s regulatory arrangements at arms length from the governance of its other activities helps to demonstrate to stakeholders that ACCA’s arrangements
are operated impartially, with integrity and in the public interest. The Regulatory Board comprises two members of ACCA’s Council and six independent lay appointees - non-accountants - one of whom is Lay Chair. The Regulatory Board is supported in its oversight activities by its three sub-boards:
• Appointments Board – is responsible for the appointment, assessment and removal of panel members including chairs, disciplinary assessors, regulatory assessors and legal advisers that are required fora robust disciplinary and regulatory process.
The Board has four members, including a Regulatory
Board-appointed lay chair, and is entirely composed of lay members to ensure that the appointment of disciplinary and regulatory chairs,
committee members, assessors and legal advisers remains at furthest possible arm’s length from Council.
• Qualifications Board – is responsible for general oversight of ACCA’s education and learning framework and examination arrangements. This includes ratification of the examination results and other matters relating to the integrity of the qualifications process. The Board has six members and comprises a Regulatory
Board-appointed chair, three lay members and two Council members Standards Board – is responsible for ensuring ACCA’s Rulebook is compliant with ACCA’s statutory obligations, Privy Council requirements and rule change decisions by Council, by providing the detailed scrutiny and due diligence to the proposed changes to ACCA’s rules, regulations and the code of ethics and conduct. The Board has four members and comprises a Regulatory Board-appointed chair, two lay members and a Council member.
The members of the Regulatory Board during the year and their attendance at Board meetings were:
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