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Description of Due Diligence and Corporate Governance

Due Diligence and Corporate Governance is a general guide to a subject of growing importance. This handbook shows you how due diligence is used to assess the risk of any transaction, customer or investor for all businesses regardless of size or location.

There are three main reasons for the rise in the profile and uses of due diligence:

• Companies are now doing deals all over the world and must be increasingly vigilant about the individuals and companies they are dealing with
• Investors, consumers and the media are putting pressure on companies to avoid dealing with ethically, environmentally or socially irresponsible organisations
• Internal controls must address the increasing regulatory requirements introduced in response to corporate scandals and the terrorist threat

Due diligence allows companies to profile the companies and individuals they are thinking of dealing with before any commitment is made, providing an effective safeguard against criminal activity, reputational damage, or breaches of legislation. With its diverse coverage and focus on the practical uses of due diligence, combined with explanations and illustrations of best practice by case studies, diagrams and checklists, this handbook is the essential guide for all those involved in corporate transactions and risk management. The handbook:
• Provides a broad introductory guide to due diligence
• Examines due diligence in the context of risk management and corporate governance
• Is straightforward, comprehensive and practical
• Uses case studies to illustrate business users
• Includes checklists to monitor risk management
• Provides insights into comparative corporate governance framework

Title Information

ISBN:

9780754526223

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

21846

Publisher:

Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd

Published:

07/03/2005

Edition:

1st Edition

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Contents of Due Diligence and Corporate Governance

1. Introduction and traditional due diligence

2. Due diligence in corporate finance

3. Money laundering

4. Drivers for due diligence and corporate governance

5. Key due diligence and corporate governance organisational areas

6. Commercial due diligence case studies

7. Reputation risk management

8. Cultural due diligence

9. Information technology and e-commerce: Issues of due diligence, risk management and corporate governance

10. Corporate governance issues

11. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

12. International dimensions and corporate governance: the Indian perspective

13. International dimensions: Corporate governance in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the People’s Republic of China

14. International dimensions: Corporate governance in Australia

15. Corporate governance in Japan