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A Practical Guide to Corporate Governance [Hardback]

by Richard Smerdon
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Description of A Practical Guide to Corporate Governance

The second edition of this popular work provides practitioners with a practical guide to corporate governance at a time when regulations and codes of practice have undergone significant change.

Incorporating all recent proposals into its coverage - including the Higgs Review, Smith Report and Turnbull Report - it presents the most up-to-date analysis of all areas of corporate governance.

- Up-to-date guidance on a rapidly changing area

- Practical approach including precedents and working documents

- Includes new chapters on charity and pension fund governance not covered in other publications

- Examines Continential European and US governance - and their implications for the UK

Title Information

ISBN:
9780421853003
Format:
Hardback
Product Code:
21083
Publisher:
Sweet & Maxwell
Published:
01/04/2004
Edition:
2nd Edition

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Contents of A Practical Guide to Corporate Governance

Definition and background

The regulatory regime

The ideal board structure

Directors - part 1: General principles

Directors - part 2: The non-executive director

Directors liability insurance

The role of the company secretary

Board meetings

The annual meeting

The chairman

The governance sections of the annual report

Directors' pay and the remuneration committee

Financial reporting and internal control

The audit committee and the auditor

Governance in the charity sector

Governance and central government

Pension fund governance

Ethics and social responsibility

The communication of information

Insitutional shareholder activism with a Hermes case study

The EU: An overview of continental governance. The USA: An overview of US governance

Appendices: Including Combined Code and Higgs Review, Smith Guidance for audit committees and Turnbull Report


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