Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook

All organisations need to be governed well. There are general principles which need to be understood and applied by those who lead enterprises - at all levels. Then there are more detailed prescriptions, tailored for different sectors and enforced by regulators, which directors must understand and apply.

This is the definitive, practical guide to the ever-changing corporate governance landscape highlighting the potential pitfalls and recommending solutions to these challenges. It ensures that you are up-to-date and able to be compliant with best practice, giving you confidence that you are continuing to function within the legal, ethical and practical parameters.

Updates to the Ninth Edition reflect:

- The new versions of Corporate Governance Codes and Guidelines
- Board oversight of Cyber Governance
- Much more comprehensive coverage of the crucial, contemporary role of internal audit

Written by an expert with many years' practical experience, this title provides invaluable advice for enterprises of all sorts needing to ensure that they are wedded to latest corporate governance principles and requirements.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part A: Effective Boards and Directors
Chapter A1 The Effective Board
Chapter A2 Considering Joining a Board
Chapter A3 Independence Issues
Chapter A4 Resigning a Directorship
Chapter A5 Board Committees
Chapter A6 Board Policies and Policy Statements
Chapter A7 SME and Family Company Corporate Governance
Chapter A8 Governance of International Organisations
Chapter A9 Directors with Company Loans: Independence and Conflict of Interest Implications
Chapter A10 Corporate Governance Disclosures for Smaller and Private Companies
Part B: Contributed Chapters
Chapter B1 Avoiding the Pitfalls in Running a Private Company
Chapter B2 Evaluating Board Effectiveness
Chapter B3 Diversity: Making it to the Top
Chapter B4 The Chairman's Perspective
Chapter B5 The Non-Executive Director's Perspective
Chapter B6 The Effective Board
Chapter B7 Survey of Non-Executive Directors' Views
Chapter B8 A job for the girls! - Creating female chairmen before the lights go out
Chapter B9 Independent external board reviews
Chapter B10 HR on the Board?
Part C: Understanding Corporate Governance
Chapter C1 Understanding Corporate Governance
Chapter C2 Grand Themes in Corporate Governance
Chapter C3 Applying the Theories that Underpin Corporate Governance
Chapter C4 Do Non-Executive Directors Add Value?
Chapter C5 Corporate Social Responsibility, Integrated Reporting and Sustainability
Chapter C6 Culture, Ethics and the Board
Chapter C7 Leadership

Part D: Corporate Governance in Practice
Chapter D1 The UK's Companies Act 2006 - Corporate Governance Issues
Chapter D2 The UK Approach to Corporate Governance
Chapter D3 Critique of UK Corporate Governance
Chapter D4 The Walker Review of Corporate Governance in UK Banks and other Financial Industry Entities
Chapter D5 Checklist to Benchmark Corporate Governance Practice in the Context of the UK Corporate Governance Code
Chapter D6 British Governance Standard (2013) - Code of Practice for Delivering Effective Governance of Organizations
Chapter D7 Gulf Corporate Governance
Part E: Board Committees
Chapter E1 Overview of Audit Committee Responsibilities
Chapter E2 Effective and Efficient Conduct of Audit Committee Business
Chapter E3 Audit Committees and Sarbanes-Oxley in the UK
Chapter E4 Audit Committee Oversight of Published Information
Chapter E5 Audit Committee Oversight of Risk Management and Internal Control
Chapter E6 Audit Committee Oversight of External Audit
Chapter E7 Audit Committee Oversight of Internal Audit and other Review Agencies
Chapter E8 The Development of Audit Committees over Time
Chapter E9 Board Risk Committees
Chapter E10 Board Remuneration Committees
Chapter E11 Board Nomination Committees
Chapter E12 The Senior Independent Director (SID)
Part F: The Corporate Governance Journey
Chapter F1 The Corporate Governance Framework
Chapter F2 Evolution of the UK Code and the Impact of Higgs and Smith
Chapter F3 Recent UK Corporate Governance Code Developments to 2018
Chapter F4 From a Free Market Towards a Social Market UK Model
Part G: Risk Management, Internal Control and Internal Audit
Chapter G1 The Risk Conversation at Board Level
Chapter G2 Risk Management and Internal Control
Chapter G3 Three Lines of Defence
Chapter G4 Recalibrating Internal Audit
Chapter G5 Positioning internal audit for effective CSR and ESG
Part H: External Oversight
Chapter H1 External Control
Chapter H2 Is Audit failing the Global Capital Markets?
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 The UK Corporate Governance Code, July 2018
Appendix 2 The UK Stewardship Code
Appendix 3 The Chartered Director (CDir) Qualification
Appendix 4 Board Committees - Terms of Reference
Appendix 5 Suggestions for Good Practice from the Higgs Report
Appendix 6 Cadbury, Greenbury and 1998 Combined Codes
Appendix 7 Internal Auditing's Mission, Principles, Definition and Code of Ethics
Appendix 7 Internal Auditing's Mission, Principles, Definition and Code of Ethics
Appendix 8 International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing
Appendix 9 Independent External Board Evaluations Code of Practice

Über den Autor / die Autorin

EUR ING Prof Andrew D Chambers, BA, PhD, CEng, FCA, FCCA, FIIA, FBCS, CITP

Twice mentioned in House of Lords’ debates as an authority on corporate governance and internal auditing and by The Times as ‘a worldwide authority on corporate governance’, Andrew has been a non-executive director of a FTSE250 financial institution, a well-known mutual, small software companies, an NHS acute hospital trust and a well-known charity – usually having chaired their audit committees. He has conducted external, independent board evaluations for banks and public bodies.

He was Dean of what is now the leading Bayes Business School where he is Professor Emeritus and, until 2013, was Professor of Corporate Governance at London South Bank University. He was Professor of Audit and Control at the University of Hull from 1994–98 and has held visiting professorships at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium (twice) and at Birmingham City University.

In 2010 he was appointed as the Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords’ Economic Affairs Select Committee’s Inquiry into Auditors: market concentration and their role that led to audit market reforms. Andrew was one of a seven-member UK committee which, in 2013, published Internal Audit Guidance for Financial Services. He has been a member of the UK FRC’s Auditing Practices Board and until 2017 he chaired the Federation of European Accountants’ (FEE’s) Corporate Governance and Company Law committee (Brussels).

Andrew has been a director of The Institute of Internal Auditors Inc. and a member of their International Internal Audit Standards Board for ten years on two separate occasions. He has received the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors’ Distinguished Service Award and the Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award of the Global Institute of Internal Auditors. Author of more than 20 books, including Operational Auditing Handbook – Auditing Business & I.T. Processes (2nd edn, 2010, Wiley, ISBN 0470744766) and Tolley’s Internal Auditor’s Handbook (2nd edn, 2009, LexisNexis, ISBN 9781405735674).

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Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andrew D Chambers
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 16.10.2025, verspätet
• EAN: 9781526531490
• ISBN: 978-1-5265-3149-0
• Seiten: 936
• Serie: Directors' Handbook Series
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht; England, Wales, LAW / Commercial / General, Company law, Company, commercial & competition law, Company, commercial and competition law: general, Wales / Cymru