All Governance articles – Page 46
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Features
Trying to do things better
Sukhdev Bal ponders why companies that do not have to comply with SOX are nevertheless striving to improve their internal control systems
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RoundtablesMOSCOW: New horizons
Strategic Risk invited a number of key practitioners within the Russian risk management community to discuss current risk management issues affecting the region
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Features
Opportunity knocks for risk managers
David Phillips and David Bishop say that risk managers could have a pivotal role in developing the Operating and Financial Review
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Features
Securing the future
On 7 March the UK Government announced its new sustainable development strategy - Securing the Future With risk managers increasingly focusing on reputational issues, good sustainability management ca
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Features
Old and dynamic?
Your HR department may be looking to recruit a workforce of young go-getters, but forthcoming equal treatment regulations will ban age discrimination Marian Bloodworth discusses what this means for UK
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Features
Not a victimless crime
Sean Holohan discusses the conflicts felt by would-be whistleblowers and the damage that can result if they fail to speak out
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Analysis
Directors' duties bill fails
The UK Health and Safety (Directors Duties) Bill failed to pass its second reading in Parliament on 4 March
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Guide
Environmental Liability Guide
When it comes to environmental liability there is a tendency to focus too much attention purely on the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD). “It is important to look at other environmental laws as well,” says Wayne Harrington, ACE’s UK environmental practice leader. The UK, for example, had a well established tradition ...
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Features
Illness or disability managing the difference
Amendments to the UK Disability Discrimination Act came into effect on the 1 October 2004 Tim Ablett reviews a recent seminar on the issues businesses face in the light of this legislation.
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Features
Coming Clean
How well are institutions coping with money-laundering regulations Lee Coppack investigates
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Features
A New Code for Belgium
Sergio Beristain looks at the development of Belgium's corporate governance initiative
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Analysis
UK Pollution Battle
The Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) has launched a campaign to counter what it calls the 'environmental deregulationists', claiming that scaremongering by polluting industries on the costs o
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Features
Personally Accountable
Directors and managers face potential personal criminal liability for some offences - and whenever a director is held liable there are implications for brand reputation Tan Ikram provides a checklist
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Features
Olivier Sorba
The Amrae boss discusses the aftermath of September 11th and how French companies are dealing with Sarbanes-Oxley
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Features
Security or Illusion?
Directors' and officers' liability was a discussion theme at the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) seminar 2004
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Analysis
DDA Compliance
With the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) at the top of the agenda for many businesses, the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) has launched a guide for end-users to assist in compliance
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Rules can cause neglect
Most new corporate governance regulations cover only a narrow spectrum of corporate risk, making it more likely that companies will neglect other, equally important, areas of risk management, said Tar
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Features
Bowing to the inevitable
Change is in the air for corporate governance across the globe, and there are plenty of good reasons for that, says Kenneth McKenzie
