Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook (Electronic book text, 7th edition)

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.