A practical guide to corporate governance / Richard Smerdon.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2004.Edition: 2nd. EditionDescription: xlix, 770 p. ; illContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780421853003
- 658.422 SME
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Previous ed.: 1998.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 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