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Chapter 13:
Corporate Governance
and Boards of Directors
Merchant, Management Control Systems PowerPoints on the Web, 3rd edition, Pearson Education Limited 2012
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Boards of directors
Merchant, Management Control Systems PowerPoints on the Web, 3rd edition, Pearson Education Limited 2012
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Directors duties
For example:
Duty of care
Make/delegate decisions in an informed way
Duty of loyalty
Advance corporate over personal interests
Duty of good faith
Be faithful and devoted to the interests of the corporation
and its shareholders
Duty not to waste
Avoid deliberate dissipation of shareholder value
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Board independence
Merchant, Management Control Systems PowerPoints on the Web, 3rd edition, Pearson Education Limited 2012
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Board competence
Board competence
Merchant, Management Control Systems PowerPoints on the Web, 3rd edition, Pearson Education Limited 2012
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Audit committees
Merchant, Management Control Systems PowerPoints on the Web, 3rd edition, Pearson Education Limited 2012
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Compensation committees
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Corporate governance
Merchant, Management Control Systems PowerPoints on the Web, 3rd edition, Pearson Education Limited 2012
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Prevalence
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Merchant, Management Control Systems PowerPoints on the Web, 3rd edition, Pearson Education Limited 2012
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Section 404
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Effectiveness?
Merchant, Management Control Systems PowerPoints on the Web, 3rd edition, Pearson Education Limited 2012
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Keiretsu (Japan)
Chaebols (Korea)
Institutional investors (India)
State ownership (China)