Download or read book An Investigation Into Corporate Governance CG and Accountability Practices written by Ismail Salem Elshahoubi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Governance and Accountability written by Jill Solomon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Governance and Accountability presents students with a complete and current survey of the latest developments involving how a company is directed and controlled. Providing a broad research-based perspective, this comprehensive textbook examines global corporate governance systems, the role and responsibilities of the directorate, and the frameworks designed to ensure effective corporate accountability for stakeholders. A holistic approach to the subject enables students to develop a well-rounded knowledge of corporate governance theory and practice, policy documents, academic research, and current debates, issues, and trends. Now in its fifth edition, this comprehensive view of the corporate governance agenda features fully revised content that reflects new research and global developments in codes of practice and governance and accountability mechanisms. In-depth chapters contain numerous real-world case studies and compelling debate and discussion topics, exploring corporate transparency, social responsibility, boardroom diversity, shareholder activism, and many other timely issues.
Download or read book Corporate Governance and Accountability written by Jill Solomon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent examples of massive corporate failures, such as Enron, have highlighted the need to reform corporate governance at an international level. The importance of effective corporate governance for corporate success, as well as for social welfare, cannot be overstated. Corporate Governance and Accountability has been written to provide readers with an up-to-date summary of both theory and practice in the area. Features: Provides a full discussion of corporate governance issues taking the broadest view of the corporate governance agenda. Draws on the extensive and original research carried out by the authors and demonstrates the close relationship between academic research and professional practice. Contains numerous contemporary illustrations and case studies, including a chapter dedicated to the collapse of Enron. Focuses on the relevance of corporate governance reform throughout the world. Highlights the importance of corporate social responsibility to companies and institutional investors from a corporate governance perspective. Includes an appendix containing the Combined Code on Corporate Governance issued by the Financial Reporting Council in July 2003. Corporate Governance and Accountability has been written as a core textbook for students taking undergraduate and MBA courses in corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. A website containing answers to end of chapter questions for lecturers can be found at www.wileyeurope.com/go/solomon
Download or read book Comparative Research on Earnings Management Corporate Governance and Economic Value written by Vieira, Elisabete S. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New trends are emerging regarding earnings management and corporate governance showing similarities and striking differences in the practices of different countries and economies. These new trends currently shape the field of modern corporate governance with crucial issues being looked at in governance law and practices, accounting systems, earnings quality and management, stakeholder involvement, and more. In order to advance these new avenues in corporate governance, research looks at accounting policies firms use in different opportunistic circumstances in order to manage earnings, the corporate governance practices in different countries, firm performance, and other dimensions of companies. The understanding of these topics is beneficial in understanding the current state of different types of firms and their practices in modern times. Comparative Research on Earnings Management, Corporate Governance, and Economic Value is focused on the investigation of key challenges and perspectives of corporate governance and earnings management and outlines possible scenarios of its development. The chapters explore this new avenue of research and cover theoretical, empirical, and experimental studies related to different themes in the global context of earnings management and corporate governance. This book is ideal for economists, businesses, managers, accountants, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in the current issues and advancements in corporate governance and earnings management.
Download or read book Corporate Governance and Its Implications on Accounting and Finance written by Alqatan, Ahmad and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the global financial crisis, the topic of corporate governance has been gaining momentum in accounting and finance literature since it may influence firm and bank management in many countries. Corporate Governance and Its Implications on Accounting and Finance provides emerging research exploring the implications of a good corporate governance system after global financial crises. Corporate governance mechanisms may include board and audit committee characteristics, ownership structure, and internal and external auditing. This book is devoted to all topics dealing with corporate governance including corporate governance characteristics, board diversity, CSR, big data governance, bitcoin governance, IT governance, and governance disclosure, and is ideally designed for executives, BODs, financial analysts, government officials, researchers, policymakers, academicians, and students.
Download or read book Trust Accountability and Purpose written by Justin O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of trust can be found across all of our institutions but most of all in finance. This Element seeks to answer an existential question: how to rebuild trust in distrusting times? Integrity, responsibility and accountability must be embedded into corporate mission statements, values and codes of conduct. Through organisational and regulatory design across five interlocking themes - legal, regulatory, managerial, ethical and social. What is required is substantive rather than technical compliance; warranted rather than stated commitment to high ethical standards; effective deterrence strategies; enhanced accountability; and a shared commitment to risk within negotiated, binding and enforceable parameters.
Download or read book Corporate Governance written by Kevin Keasey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade since the publication of the Cadbury Report in1992 has seen growing interest in corporate governance. This growth has recently become an explosion with major corporate scandals such as WorldCom and Enron in the US, the international diffusion of corporate governance codes and wider interest in researching corporate governance in different institutional contexts and through different subject lenses. In view of these developments, this book will be a rigorous update and development of the editor’s earlier work, Corporate Governance: Economic, Management and Financial Issues. Each chapter, written by an expert in the subject offers a high level review of the topic, embracing material from financial accounting, strategy and economic perspectives.
Download or read book A Guide to Corporate Governance written by Gopalsamy and published by New Age International. This book was released on 2008 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Governance written by Robert A. G. Monks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this successful text offers an indispensable guide to the key concepts of corporate governance every student and business professional should know. It includes more exercises and student questions, penetrating analysis of the latest examples of corporate failure and controversy, and the lively "cases in point" which have characterized previous editions. Features 16 case studies of corporations in crisis, including General Motors, American Express, Time Warner, IBM, and Premier Oil Contains an invaluable web link to The Corporate Library, the leading independent research firm dedicated to corporate governance Includes an Appendix with an overview of CG Guidelines and Codes of Best Practice in Emerging Markets
Download or read book Corporate Governance and Accountability written by Jill Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth in corporate governance. Improvements in corporate governance practice are being orchestrated at a global level. International bodies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have developed internationally acceptable standards of corporate governance. In the UK, companies are continuing to strengthen their generally sound corporate governance systems, focusing on shareholder and stakeholder relations and accountability, improvements in the performance of boards of directors, auditors and the accounting function, and paying attention to the ways in which their companies are controlled and run. Similarly, institutional investors, accountants, auditors and the general public are increasingly aware of a continuing need to promote corporate governance reform. Scandals such as Enron, and more recently Carillion, have driven home this need for constant reform
Download or read book Handbook of Research Methods for Corporate Governance written by Nicola Cucari and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides an incisive, rigorous and contemporary guide to research methods in the continually evolving area of corporate governance, offering a welcome focus on holistic approaches to research. Not only analysing existing research methods dominated by the quantitative-qualitative dichotomy, it also explores the crucial need to challenge assumptions and methodologies in order to advance research in the field.
Download or read book Corporate Governance written by David M. Martin and published by Thorogood Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is a clear, accessible and jargon-free analysis of the practical application of Corporate Governance. With short case studies to illustrate UK legal requirements, the author guides the reader through all aspects of the Corporate Governance program, concentrating specifically on its use by organizations who are not required to adopt it, such as listed PLCs.
Download or read book Research Handbook on Corporate Board Decision Making written by Oliver Marnet and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a state-of-the-art perspective on corporate board decision-making that encourages thinking outside the box, this cutting-edge Research Handbook provides fresh insights on the meaning, value, contribution, quality and purpose of the decision-making of those charged with corporate governance.
Download or read book Global Modern Corporate Governance Principles and Models After World Economic Crisis Part I written by Dinh Tran Ngoc Huy MBA and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several financial crises passed, in 1997-1999 and 2007-2009, left lessons for worldwide management control, accounting practice and internal system problems for corporations both in Viet Nam and in the world. It is one of the reasons for this book’s presence. The book cover the subject of corporate governance in theories and practices in regions: Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and America, after recent time of crisis and corporate scandals over the world, including Viet Nam, which affect our economy, society, work and life balance. The recent trend is shown in its title for part one: Theories and Practices on Corporate Governance Issues and Standards after Financial Crisis. Our own comparative analysis and research is shown in part two and part three of this book. In this edition, the book has some updated information in: adding a new implementation form for corporate governance, as well as proposed new case questions for academic purpose. Welcome any ideas from readers.
Download or read book Corporate Governance And Corporate Social Responsibility Emerging Markets Focus written by Sabri Boubaker and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While emerging market economies do not have a mature market structure yet, there is a need for research on corporate governance practices in these economies from different perspectives, including corporate social responsibility. Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Markets Focus fills the gap with a collection of high-quality research and policy-based papers addressing these issues, using various market cases as illustrations.Unlike previous books that often focused on one or several emerging markets, this book covers a much broader set of countries and tackles ethical, legal and societal aspects of corporate governance, beyond financial issues. It also discusses how companies work towards best corporate governance practices, particularly, in the aftermath of recent financial and economic crises. Readers will benefit from the wide range of theoretical, empirical, and case analyses, selected with care to reflect cutting-edge corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues in countries with emerging markets.
Download or read book Corporate Governance and Strategic Decision Making written by Lawrence Emeagwali and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume aims to intimate and orient readers on the current state of corporate governance and strategic decision making a decade after the global financial crises. In particular, it sheds more light on the current state of affairs of corporate governance mechanisms, codes, and their enforcement as well as novel issues arising. The ten constituent chapters contained herein are authored by seasoned academics with research interests in the areas of corporate governance, strategic management, and sustainable management practices. It provides up-to-date theoretical and empirical evidence of such corporate governance issues as corporate governance codes, corporate fraud, quality of earnings, strategic decision making, corporate social responsibility, sustainable management, and sustainable growth strategies. Irrespective of the diverse nature and span of the topics included, this edited volume is divided into three sections and structured to read as a unit.
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