Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook Paperback English by Andrew D. Chambers - 7 April 2017

Andrew D. Chambers

Many firms have implemented corporate governance, yet have fallen into collapse and scandal involving their operations. What has gone wrong? Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook is the definitive, practical guide to the ever changing corporate governance landscape highlighting the potential pitfalls, tackling the issues, placing blame where appropriate, and recommending possible solutions to these problems. Providing invaluable, practical guidance Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook ensures that you are up to date and compliant with best practice giving you complete confidence that you are continuing to function within the legal, ethical and practical parameters of corporate governance. New for the Seventh edition: Completely revised and updated, the new seventh edition includes new chapters on: Positioning internal audit for effective CSR and ESG - scope, competence and reporting; Board evaluation; Recalibrating internal audit; The independence and of different corporate governance parties; Relationships between different corporate governance parties; The risk conversation at board level/ In addition: Includes coverage of the autumn 2016 release of the updated UK Corporate Governance Code; Family Firms and their Governance expanded to cover SMEs; Corporate Social Responsibility, Integrated Reporting and Sustainability (Chapter C5) will be expanded to cover ESG (Environment, social and governance) and a new ESG checklist will be included.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

7 April 2017

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Andrew Chambers chairs FEE's Corporate Governance and Company Law Working Party. FEE is the federation of European professional accounting bodies. He was twice mentioned in House of Lords' debates as an authority on corporate governance and by The Times as `a worldwide authority on corporate governance'. He was Dean of the leading Cass Business School where he is professor emeritus. Appointed in 2010 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 that in 2013 published enhanced `Internal Audit Guidance for Financial Services'. Andrew is a jurist for the Hawkamah Bank Corporate Governance Awards in the MENASA region and for the ICSA Hermes Transparency in Governance Awards.

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