White Paper - The Obligations Register – Structure and Content

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Author

Nigel Dalton-Brown

FGIA, GAICD, AMIIA, MBA

Date

2025

Topics Explored

Compliance

Format

White Paper

Extract/Description

An effective obligations register is a vital tool in the administration of governance, obligations awareness, risk management and compliance. This white paper proposes both the structure of a comprehensive obligations register and a strategy for populating it.

Key Points

A comprehensive obligations register is an organisation-wide single source of truth for all mandatory and voluntary obligations, capturing all relevant information in a simple and logical way.

Obligations are a complex cascade of interdependencies.

Relevant Industries

All

Level of Assumed Knowledge

Intermediate

Aligned to Global Internal Audit Standards

Not Applicable