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Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook 5th Edition
Author(s): Andrew Chambers (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
- Publication Date: 27 April 2012
- Edition: 5th
- Language: English
- Print length: 936 pages
- ISBN-10: 184766878X
- ISBN-13: 9781847668783
Book Description
Corporate Governance Handbook offers invaluable advice on how to ensure your company functions within the required legal and ethical parameters. The pace of change in corporate governance has been dramatic since the global financial crisis of 2008. This handbook seeks to capture these changes. This indispensable handbook shows you how to implement developments in corporate governance using accepted best practice standards with useful precedents, checklists, bullet point summaries and references to legislation and codes of practice throughout. New edition includes: A major update to reflect the UK Corporate Governance Code and other significant corporate governance developments; UK Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes; Brand new material on the governance of private and family firms; Special issues (e.g. loans to directors, and directors’ rights to know) are covered for the first time; Valuable guest contributions from IDDAS on the perspectives of company chairmen, females on boards and non-executive directors; Valuable guest contributions from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland on appraising your auditors and on avoiding the pitfalls of running a private company.
Editorial Reviews
Review
…an excellent guide for those of legal and other backgrounds who are involved in issues of Corporate Governance… one of the most realistic analyses I have ever seen… it comes highly recommended to all potential readers. –The Law Journal UK, 2012
About the Author
Andrew Chambers is Professor of Corporate Governance at London South Bank University. He has been described by The Times as ‘a worldwide authority on corporate governance’. In 2010 he was appointed the Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords’ Economic Affairs Select Committee’s Inquiry into Auditors: Market concentration in their role. He is deputy chair of F d ration des Experts Comptables Europ en’s (FEE’s) Corporate Governance and Company Law standing Working Party (Brussels). Andrew is a judge for three annual awards: Hawkamah’s Bank Corporate Governance Awards in the MENESA region, ICSA Hermes Transparency in Governance Awards, and Incisive Media’s British Accounting Awards.
