Management Accountability and Corporate Governance: Selected Readings

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Aims and Objectives of Corporate Bodies....Pages 3-14
Board Structures....Pages 15-26
The Independent Director....Pages 27-40
The Role of the Corporate Secretary in Promoting Corporate Accountability — a United States view....Pages 41-60
To Whom should the Board be Accountable … and for What?....Pages 61-77
One Board or Two?....Pages 78-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
The Relationship between Public Companies and their Shareholders....Pages 85-90
The Function of Ownership and the Role of Institutional Shareholders....Pages 91-101
Social Responsibility and the Institutional Investor....Pages 102-113
Too Much Power at the Top?....Pages 114-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Financial Accounts — What They Do and Don’t Reveal....Pages 129-140
Corporate Objectives: the Key to Financial Reporting....Pages 141-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
What is Accountability?....Pages 155-162
Analysing Corporate Social Performance: Methods and Results....Pages 163-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
A Question of Disclosure....Pages 185-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
The Price of Limited Liability — Accountability and Small Companies....Pages 213-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-229