Tag: comply or explain
Time for a governance rethink: enforced compliance or not?
Have current codes of practice significantly improved corporate governance around the world? If not, then it may be time to review the case for enforced compliance.
Evolving a corporate governance code that is fit for purpose
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council has published proposals for a streamlined governance code, while research from Mazars, in association with ecoDa, finds compliance with the existing framework to be variable.
King IV on corporate governance: a product of African soil
The highly respected King reports lead global thinking on corporate governance. The most recent report drops the “apply or explain” principle for “apply and explain”—a significant change born of an effort to transform African economies.
Let’s keep ‘comply-or-explain’ in corporate governance burning bright
The 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.
Singapore puts governance under review
Regulators in Singapore will examine the quality of comply or explain statements, as well as proposals on monitoring.
2017: Key issues in the year ahead
The PM’s green paper, technology, responsible leadership and Brexit: experts highlight the issues they see as most important for corporate governance and leadership in the next 12 months.
Fostering the principle
High-quality explanations for deviation from corporate governance codes are needed if the “comply or explain” principle is to take root across the EU.
Coded explanations
The UK’s “comply or explain” governance code is widely hailed as a success, but the quality of explanations is open to question. Philip J. Shrives leads us on a tour of the problems.