Chambers' Corporate Governance Handbook, 5th edition

Chambers’ Corporate Governance Handbook, Fifth Edition provides invaluable advice on functioning within the legal, ethical and practical parameters of corporate governance. With a thorough understanding of the subject matter and many years of corporate governance experience, Andrew Chambers takes you through the essential elements of best practice corporate governance and what it should mean to you and your business.

Key areas addressed in this edition, include:
• The UK Corporate Governance Code
• The UK Stewardship Code
• Updated Turnbull Guidance on Internal Control
• The Business Review
• The Walker Review on Financial Sector Corporate Governance
• European Commission developments
• House of Lords Economic Affairs Select Committee’s report on auditing
• Women on boards
• Effective boards, directors and non executive directors
• Chairing boards
• Joining and leaving a board
• Governance of private and family firms
• Loans to directors
• Directors’ rights and need to know
• Risk management and internal control
• Appraising your auditors

Useful precedents, checklists, bullet point summaries and references to legislation and codes of practice help to simplify processes and keep you up-to-speed and compliant with best practice.

Chambers’ Corporate Governance Handbook, Fifth Edition is essential reading for company directors, and their legal advisers, corporate counsel, company secretaries, regulators, public policy makers, students and teaching staff.

Andrew Chambers is Professor of Corporate Governance at London South Bank University. He has been described by The Times as ‘a worldwide authority on corporate governance’. In 2010 he was appointed the Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords’ Economic Affairs Select Committee’s Inquiry into Auditors: Market concentration in their role. He is deputy chair of Fédération des Experts Comptables Européen’s (FEE’s) Corporate Governance and Company Law standing Working Party (Brussels). Andrew is a judge for three annual awards: Hawkamah’s Bank Corporate Governance Awards in the MENESA region, ICSA Hermes Transparency in Governance Awards, and Incisive Media’s British Accounting Awards.