Corporate Governance: A Practical Guide to the Legal Frameworks and International Codes of Practice

✍ Scribed by Alan Calder

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Studies have shown that a company's share price is often linked to how well governed the company is, providing board members with a strong financial incentive to maintain good corporate governance practices. Yet what may constitute good governance will vary across different countries and companies. There is no "one size fits all" model of corporate governance. Corporate Governance will help readers become familiar with the principles and practice of good governance appropriate to their companies, enabling them to uphold those standards that will improve their corporate reputation while providing reassurance to market regulators. Written for directors of companies large and small, it answers every question about what good corporate governance means for a company's reputation and its share price.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
ISBN 978-0-7494-4817-2......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 8
Corporate governance – the historical background......Page 13
Corporate governance in the United States......Page 23
Corporate governance in the European Union......Page 30
Corporate governance in the United Kingdom – the statutory framework......Page 38
Corporate governance in the United Kingdom – the non-statutory framework......Page 46
The Listing Rules and the Combined Code on Corporate Governance......Page 54
Duties of directors......Page 63
The board......Page 74
The company secretary......Page 82
Directors’ remuneration......Page 86
The Combined Code and .nancial reporting......Page 96
Risk management......Page 102
Internal control and the Turnbull Guidance......Page 114
The audit and auditors......Page 122
The audit committee......Page 141
Relations with shareholders......Page 145
Corporate governance in the UK public sector......Page 129
IT governance......Page 155
Corporate social responsibility......Page 170
Table of contents: the Companies Act 2006......Page 175
The Combined Code on Corporate Governance......Page 243
Corporate Governance Guidelines for AIM Companies......Page 244
Summary of the Nolan Committee’s First Report on Standards in Public Life......Page 248
Model terms of reference......Page 253
Directors’ Remuneration Report Regulations 2002, Schedule 7A......Page 272
Useful websites......Page 283
Further reading......Page 284
Index......Page 286