This practical title covers broadly the subject of due diligence - used to provide a framework for helping businesses avoid reputational, environmental and social hazards. Straightforward and clearly written, Due Diligence and Corporate Governance is a unique title which covers all aspects of new due diligence in one book. Taking a risk-based approach, this essential reference book for company secretaries, directors and managers, includes checklists to monitor risk management, explains best practice illustrated with practical examples and diagrams, and explains in a user-friendly way exactly how to get it right. LexisNexis UK and CIMA Publishing are offering CIMA members a discount on this product. Please go to www. lexisnexis. co. uk/cimapublishing to see if you qualify and to order.

"Due Diligence Handbook provides business directors with a practical and authoritative guidance to minimising financial and legal risks, as well as risks to reputation. The book brings together practical information on relevant legislation, regulations, codes and best practice guidance in one volume." "The book provides clear guidance and case studies to help understand the complexity of due diligence issues, and to demonstrate the detailed work that is necessary to ensure that the benefits of an acquisition can be realised and that there are no unexpected problems."--BOOK JACKET.

Due Diligence, A Scholarly Study is the first due diligence textbook designed specifically for use in law school, business school and other graduate and post graduate level university classrooms, including executive education programs. The text covers all the areas of the Center's recommended classroom syllabus including: ◾Introduction to Due Diligence ◾Due Diligence Context ◾Due Diligence and Corporate Governance ◾Due Diligence Under the Federal Securities Laws ◾Judicial and Other Proceedings Involving Due Diligence Issues and the Due Diligence Defense ◾ Industry and SEC Guidelines ◾ Emerging Developments and Trends

An initial set of seven procedures is developed for assessing a company's common stock. A second set of ten procedures is developed for performing stealth or external financial (forensic) analysis on a company's common stock. Also, a set of eight corporate governance principles, developed in secret over one year by 13 prominent CEOs of U.S. based, global companies, are elaborated for analyzing a company's corporate governance practices in this paper. The purpose of this paper is to portray how these procedures and principles can be used by financial analysts and Boards of Directors in helping to assess the viability of the companies they are analyzing or serving and to develop key questions to ask of corporate executives. Thus, the first set of procedures elaborates seven reasons to consider in assessing a company's stock. The second set of procedures develops ten steps of stealth forensics to investigate the possibility of financial shenanigans or fraud by a company. The last set of eight principles assesses the strength of corporate governance in a company. The importance of these principles is demonstrated by matching them with the practices of just 18 mainly global companies that managed to destroy $1.5 trillion of market capitalization. All these twenty-five procedures and principles will help strengthen financial analysis and corporate governance, especially for the role of financial analysts and Boards of Directors in assessing the value of companies' common stock for investors.

The first book in the Due Diligence Collection examines the role and duties imposed on officers pursuant to the new Model Work Health and Safety laws, the majority of which commenced on 1st January 2012. Work health and safety laws impose a proactive duty on officers to exercise due diligence to ensure compliance with those laws. Due diligence is a duty imposed on officers personally. It is separate from the duty imposed on their company. The duty is also proactive - it can be breached merely for failing to put in place a corporate governance regime, even though there may not have been a WHS incident at the officer's company. Written by OHS legal expert Michael Tooma, the second edition of Due Diligence: Duty of Officers is an officer's answer to any of their duty questions.KEY FEATURESChapter 1 provides an overview of the duty.Chapter 2 explores the question of "who is an officer".Chapters 3-8 deal with each element of the due diligence definition.Chapter 9 deals with the liabilities arising from breaches of the due diligence duty and explores practical recommendations for compliance by categories of officers such as directors, company secretaries, chief financial officers, human resources directors, general counsel and operations management.Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand is the non-exclusive distributor of this title.

Corporate governance in financial institutions has come under the spotlight since the banking crisis in the UK in 2008-9. In many respects, the banking business raises unique problems for corporate governance that are not found in other corporate secto

The effects of climate change on the one hand, and government promises to achieve sustainable development on the other, are only two examples of the factors driving businesses to incorporate sustainability into their business strategies. International organizations and researchers alike contend that incorporating sustainability into business is only feasible when governance also considers environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Therefore, corporate governance is attracting more and more attention from investors and various stakeholders. On 23 February 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. The aim of this Directive is to foster sustainable and responsible corporate behaviour and to anchor human rights and environmental considerations in companies’ operations and corporate governance. Drawing on the theoretical framework of corporate governance and an analysis of the latest and most important literature on corporate governance and sustainability, this book offers essential insights, particularly in light of the Sustainable Corporate Governance Directive and Due Diligence Directive.