In this study, we have explored the existing implicit conceptual framework
for internal control, risk management, and risk disclosure, as well as the
emerging explicit conceptual framework. Our investigation has involved
reviewing theory and practice as well as investigating the attitudes of
UK institutional investors towards risk disclosure by UK companies. We
have focused on the disclosure aspect of an emerging explicit conceptual
framework for internal control, which we have developed from Turnbull.
From this framework we have developed a conceptual framework for
corporate risk disclosure detailing a variety of different elements which
interrelate to create an ‘ideal’ risk disclosure framework. The ‘ideal’
framework was used to assess the views of a representative sample of
institutional investors. For example, our results indicate that almost a third
of the institutional investors agree that increased corporate risk disclosure
would help their portfolio investment decision-making. There is also a
strong indication from our findings that risk disclosure is an important and
relevant issue within the agenda for CG reform, as certain significant links
were established between the perceptions of CG and attitudes towards risk
disclosure although such links tended to be moderate