2.1 Independence of the audit committee
It is stressed within the FRC’s (2012, p. 3) Guidance on Audit Committees that it is important to create an independent audit committee. In this respect, the Guidance states that:
[…] the board should establish an audit committee of at least three, or in the case of smaller
companies two, independent nonexecutive directors. In smaller companies the company
chairman may be a member of, but not chair, the committee in addition to the independent non-
executive directors, provided he or she was considered independent on appointment as
chairman.