All Governance articles – Page 48
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Features
The new risk management challenge
Jenny Rayner explores the implications for risk managers of the new mandatory Operating and Financial Review
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Shareholder activism
With their ability to change whole boards, slap down fat cat pay deals, and put the brakes on overly ambitious and risky business strategies, institutional investors have become the scourge of corpora
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Disclosing The Facts
New legislation will encourage UK companies to provide more information for stakeholders But, without compulsion, will anything change?
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Managing a Disaster
You need to be sure that you can manage after a disaster rather than letting the disaster manage you, say Clive Fletcher-Wood and Alyson Tanner
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Heeding the wake up call
Companies must recognise the threat of terrorism and the need to address it, stresses Mark Harris
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Honouring the Pensions promise
The risk from defined benefit pension promises is inextricably linked to the sponsoring company's finances This was always the case but the accounting standard FRS17 has emphasised it in a way that ma
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Analysis
Hazards from EU Enlargement
A new study suggests that EU harmonisation could erode the cost advantages that newly-joined states currently enjoy, and could leave British importers liable if products sourced from these countries d
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Analysis
CRE seeks employers' views
The Commission For Racial Equality is asking British employers to take part in a consultation on its revised code of practice in employment
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An Entente not so Cordiale - Eurotunnel
Lee Coppack looks at events at Eurotunnel and why shareholder activism is increasing generally
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Comment - Is it a risk or an opportunity?
Is it a risk or an opportunity? That is what many organisations will be asking themselves following the UK government's launch of draft regulations on the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) in May
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Biodiversity risk for extractive companies
Robert Barrington discusses a recent report on biodiversity and the risks for the extractive industries
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Are you being given the whole story?
CEOs, finance directors and risk managers are recognising the need to outsource part of the due diligence process prior to corporate transactions, in order to make sure that nothing suspicious is lurk
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Asbestos Update
Over 100 years after it was first publicly revealed in a UK parliamentary report to be hazardous to health, asbestos has made an unwelcome return to the top of organisations' risk registers, says Neil
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Feeling the Effects
While only eligible UK companies will fall within the Sarbanes-Oxley net, the UK government is considering additional legislation that will apply to all David Saunders writes.
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The ethical crossroads
In some business cultures 'sweeteners' are a fact of life Martin Cunningham looks at the ethical dilemma posed by bribery in an era of corporate social responsibility.
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More an art than a science
Humans are often poor decision-makers What can managers and organisations do about it? ask Dr Tom Woollard and Dr Ed Mitchell.
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Informed appointments
Alan Beazley says pre-employment screening can weed out applicants who are not what they seem
