Oversight may refer to:

Governance

Regulation Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...

– rulemaking *

Separation of powers The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state (polity), state power (usually Legislature#Legislation, law-making, adjudication, and Executive (government)#Function, execution) and requires these operat ...

in state governance (checks and balances) - the concept of separate branches of government or agencies exercising authority over one another *Checks and controls over a particular body or institution: :* Congressional oversight over U.S. federal agencies and other institutions, exercised by the United States Congress :*The ministry of episcopal oversight within Christian churches :*Oversight over the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), see Public Interest Oversight Board :*Oversight (registration, inspection, standard setting and enforcement) over auditors, see

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee the audits of US-listed public companies. The PCAOB also oversees the audits of broker-dealers, including co ...

:*Internal oversight over United Nations operations, see

United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) is an independent office in the United Nations Secretariat whose mandate is to "assist the Secretary-General in fulfilling his internal oversight responsibilities in respect of the r ...

*An element of organizational governance, see Fair governance

Sports

Oversight (horse) Oversight (foaled 1906 in Calvados (department), Calvados Lower Normandy) was a French Thoroughbred Horse racing, racehorse. Bred by United States, American sportsman William Kissam Vanderbilt at his Haras du Quesnay stud farm, he was out of the ...

, a French Thoroughbred racehorse {{disambiguation