A practical guide to corporate governance / Richard Smerdon.

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.

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