Boards are being bombarded by new regulatory requirements. The list of people to whom they are expected to be accountable continues to grow, as does the list of issues on their agenda, including many that simply didn’t exist until relatively recently. Over the same period there have been enormous...

ICSA has produced this simple contents list for company annual reports, to assist those preparing reports. This guidance should be regarded as an indicative framework, rather than a rigid template. It is not intended to be prescriptive, nor is it intended to be a comprehensive list of all legal and ...

Taking minutes of meetings is administrative good practice. It creates a record of what has been agreed, and by whom; and of what is to be done, by when and by whom. For such a basic aspect of the administration of business of all kinds, it is surprising that there is little formal guidance about ho...