IHTM29150 - Governance: Summary

Governance is a term that refers broadly to the rules, processes, or laws by which organisations are operated, regulated, and controlled.

A well-defined and enforced governance policy provides a structure that works for the benefit of everyone concerned by ensuring that the organisation works to accepted quality standards and best practice as well as to the law.

• In IHT we need to make sure that our security, checking and authorisation procedures are robust and handled consistently
• We need to monitor and check the quality of the work we do to make sure that this happens.
• We need to have clearly defined roles and responsibilities

The guidance that follows is a summary of the governance issues that apply to the enquiry work done in IHT Compliance Group and Litigation and the account amendment work done in PC&S.