Subjects:

Company Law

Contents:

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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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.