Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook

7th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-78451-444-0
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY PROFESSIONAL

Buch, Englisch, 1176 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 1328 g

Reihe: Directors' Handbook

Many firms have implemented corporate governance, yet have fallen into collapse and scandal involving their operations. What has gone wrong? Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook is the definitive, practical guide to the ever changing corporate governance landscape highlighting the potential pitfalls, tackling the issues, placing blame where appropriate, and recommending possible solutions to these problems.

Providing invaluable, practical guidance Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook ensures that you are up to date and compliant with best practice giving you complete confidence that you are continuing to function within the legal, ethical and practical parameters of corporate governance.

New for the Seventh edition:

Completely revised and updated, the new seventh edition includes new chapters on: Positioning internal audit for effective CSR and ESG - scope, competence and reporting; Board evaluation; Recalibrating internal audit; The independence and of different corporate governance parties; Relationships between different corporate governance parties; The risk conversation at board level/
In addition: Includes coverage of the autumn 2016 release of the updated UK Corporate Governance Code; Family Firms and their Governance expanded to cover SMEs; Corporate Social Responsibility, Integrated Reporting and Sustainability (Chapter C5) will be expanded to cover ESG (Environment, social and governance) and a new ESG checklist will be included.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chambers, Andrew D

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part A: Effective Boards and Directors
Chapter A1 The Effective Board

Chapter A2 Considering Joining a Board

Chapter A3 Independence Issues

Chapter A4 Resigning a Directorship

Chapter A5 Board Committees

Chapter A6 Board Policies and Policy Statements

Chapter A7 SME and Family Company Corporate Governance

Chapter A8 Governance of International Organisations

Chapter A9 Directors with Company Loans: Independence and Conflict of Interest Implications

Part B: Contributed Chapters
Chapter B1 Avoiding the Pitfalls in Running a Private Company

Chapter B2 Evaluating Board Effectiveness

Chapter B3 Diversity: Making it to the Top

Chapter B4 The Chairman's Perspective

Chapter B5 The Non-Executive Director's Perspective

Chapter B6 The Effective Board

Chapter B7 Survey of Non-Executive Director's Views

Part C: Understanding Corporate Governance
Chapter C1 Understanding Corporate Governance

Chapter C2 Grand Themes in Corporate Governance

Chapter C3 Applying the Theories that Underpin Corporate Governance

Chapter C4 Do Non-Executive Directors Add Value?

Chapter C5 Corporate Social Responsibility, Integrated Reporting and Sustainability

Chapter C6 Culture, Ethics and the Board

Part D: Corporate Governance in Practice
Chapter D1 The UK's Companies Act 2006 - Corporate Governance Issues

Chapter D2 The UK Approach to Corporate Governance

Chapter D3 Critique of UK Corporate Governance

Chapter D4 The Walker Review of Corporate Governance in UK Banks and other Financial Industry Entities

Chapter D5 Checklist to Benchmark Corporate Governance Practice in the Context of the UK Corporate Governance Code

Chapter D6 British Governance Standard (2013) - Code of Practice for Delivering Effective Governance of Organizations

Chapter D7 Gulf Corporate Governance

Part E: Board Committees
Chapter E1 Overview of Audit Committee Responsibilities

Chapter E2 Effective and Efficient Conduct of Audit Committee Business

Chapter E3 Audit Committees and Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK

Chapter E4 Audit Committee Oversight of Published Information

Chapter E5 Audit Committee Oversight of Risk Management and Internal Control

Chapter E6 Audit Committee Oversight of External Audit

Chapter E7 Audit Committee Oversight of Internal Audit and other Review Agencies

Chapter E8 The Development of Audit Committees over Time

Chapter E9 Board Risk Committees

Chapter E10 Board Remuneration Committees

Chapter E11 Board Nomination Committees

F: The Corporate Governance Journey
Chapter F1 The Corporate Governance Framework

Chapter F2 Evolution of the UK Code and the Impact of Higgs and Smith

Part G: Risk Management, Internal Control and Internal Audit
Chapter G1 The Risk Conversation at Board Level

Chapter G2 Risk Management and Internal Control

Chapter G3 Three Lines of Defence

Chapter G4 Recalibrating Internal Audit

Chapter G5 Positioning Internal Audit for Effective CSR and ESG

Part H: External Oversight
Chapter H1 External Control

Chapter H2 Is Audit failing the Global Capital Markets?

Appendices
Appendix 1 The UK Corporate Governance Code

Appendix 2 The UK Stewardship Code

Appendix 3 The Chartered Director (CDir) Qualification

Appendix 4 Board Committees - Terms of Reference

Appendix 5 Suggestions for Good Practice from the Higgs Report

Appendix 6 Cadbury, Greenbury and 1998 Combined Codes

The 1992 'Cadbury Code'

The 1995 'Greenbury Code'

The 1998 Combined Code

Appendix 7 Internal Auditing's Mission, Principles, Definition, and Code of Ethics

Appendix 8 International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing

Appendix 9 Independent External Board Evaluations Code of Practice

Über Autor(innen)

Chambers, Andrew D
Eur Ing Andrew D Chambers, BA, PhD, CEng, FCCA, FCA, FBCS, CITP, FIIA

Twice mentioned in House of Lords' debates as an authority on corporate governance and internal auditing and by The Times as 'a worldwide authority on corporate governance' Andrew has been a non-executive director of a FTSE250 financial institution, a well-known mutual, small software companies, an NHS acute hospital trust and a well-known charity - usually having chaired their audit committees. He was Dean of what is now the leading Bayes Business School where he is professor emeritus, and until 2013 was Professor of Corporate Governance at London South Bank University. He was Professor of Audit and Control at the University of Hull from 1994-98 and has held visiting professorships at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium (twice) and at Birmingham City University.

In 2010 he was appointed as the Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords' Economic Affairs Select Committee's Inquiry into Auditors: market concentration and their role that led to audit market reforms. Andrew was one of a seven member UK committee that in 2013 published Internal Audit Guidance for Financial Services. He has been a member of the UK FRC's Auditing Practices Board (2006-9) and until recently chaired Accountancy Europe's Corporate Governance and Company Law committee (Brussels).

In 2008 Andrew received The Institute of Internal Auditors' (UK) Distinguished Service Award and in 2014 the Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award of the global Institute of Internal Auditors.

Author of more than twenty books including Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook (8th ed., 2020), Operational Auditing Handbook - Auditing Business & I.T. Processes (2nd ed., 2010, Wiley, ISBN 0470744766), and Tolley's Internal Auditor's Handbook (2nd ed., 2009, LexisNexis, ISBN 9781405735674).

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Andrew Chambers chairs FEE's Corporate Governance and Company Law Working Party. FEE (www.fee.be) is the federation of European professional accounting bodies. He was twice mentioned in House of Lords' debates as an authority on corporate governance and by The Times as 'a worldwide authority on corporate governance'. He was Dean of the leading Cass Business School where he is professor emeritus. Appointed in 2010 as the Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords' Economic Affairs Select Committee's Inquiry into Auditors: market concentration and their role that led to audit market reforms. Andrew was one of a seven member UK committee that in 2013 published enhanced 'Internal Audit Guidance for Financial Services'. Andrew is a jurist for the Hawkamah Bank Corporate Governance Awards in the MENASA region and for the ICSA Hermes Transparency in Governance Awards.