This collection of papers is also suggestive of how wider societal and regulatory discourses of risk and its management are reflected in the world of auditing. As part of a broader alignment of neoliberal control philosophy with business values, the development of BRA has much in common with shifts in regulatory strategy and popular management ideas more generally. For these reasons, we should expect the broad conception of BRA to remain durable because of its resonance in a wider institutional field. Where particular manifestations of BRA may have suffered in the immediate post Enron period, criticisms of the implementation of section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, and of related audit guidance, suggest that risk assessment is now regarded as part of the common sense of both auditing and regulating. BRA is in this sense both a symptom of the times and also implicated in defining these times. This suggests that a history of auditing’s present must locate it in a dynamic web of routines and ideas. This web is permeated by, and permeates, a wider field of managerial and regulatory knowledge which is itself constantly changing, where flows and spillovers in ideas and technique are the norm, and whose analysis has defined a large part of the agenda of Accounting, Organizations and Society.