Niamh Brennan
Niamh Brennan is the Michael MacCormac professor of management at University College Dublin (UCD). Niamh has published on financial reporting, corporate governance, forensic accounting and clinical governance. In 2002 she established the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance.
Latest Articles by Niamh Brennan
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25 October, 2017
The guardianship circle: praxis of governance and audit committeesWhy is the practice of corporate governance so different from best practice standards? Effective corporate governance “in practice” is fluid, context-specific and depends on practitioners’ skills, initiative and adaptation.
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5 October, 2017
Information asymmetry is good for effective boardsCommentators often complain that non-executives need more information. But recent research suggests that it is information asymmetry that actually makes non-executives effective.
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21 July, 2017
Let’s keep ‘comply-or-explain’ in corporate governance burning brightThe UK’s comply-or-explain system of corporate governance, introduced in 1992, has been widely admired and imitated, but it’s not without its critics; there is room for improvement, while retaining the Code’s spirit of flexibility.