Corporate Governance Best Practices

QUESTION VERBS ACCA examiners have highlighted the lack of understanding of the requirements of question verbs as the most serious weakne...

It is important for organisations to understand which groups of stakeholders can influence them the most as these stakeholders probably can...

The Cadbury report focused on the role and structure of the board of directors, audit and accountability and the relationship with instit...

The Combined Code developed after corporate failures in the late 1980s and early 1990s that caused government focus on listed companies an...

PROBLEMS BETWEEN PRINCIPAL AND AGENT As discussed above, due to the existence of large companies with many small shareholders it can be...

BARINGS BANK Barings Bank was a very old traditional British bank. In the 1980s and early 1990s the banking industry was going through a ...

ENRON The collapse of Enron is probably the most famous example of a company failure due to fraudulent accounting. Enron was one of t...