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Company size doesn’t matter when it comes to successful corporate governance.

In recent years the length of board packs has increased significantly, especially in financial services, often surpassing a thousand pages. This information overload can hamper board members’ ability to think clearly, and thus their ability to make cha…

Audit Committees are playing an increasingly critical corporate governance role in terms of their leadership on financial reporting, internal controls, risk management and the internal and external audit functions.

Whistleblowing is central to a company’s system of checks and balances, It can help businesses to mitigate their risks, improve their culture, and ultimately increase their performance, argues ICAEW chief executive Michael Izza.

The Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations came into force in April 2017 and so by now all organisations employing over 250 relevant employees have published (or should have) two annual reports. The reports consist of six metrics that quantify the differ…

Issues relating diversity, pay disparity, human rights and employee engagement have been on the agenda of organisations from a Corporate Social Responsibility perspective for some time. However, with the introduction over the last few years of various …

Designed to give investors, and other users, the ability to assess the financial integrity of a company, financial reporting and compliance with relevant reporting frameworks is an essential tool for holding management to account. More than this, high …

Short-term changes at the top do not result in long-term or sustained success.

David Petrie, ICAEW’s Head of Corporate Finance, reviews an unprecedented year and looks ahead to what we might expect in 2021.

For businesses struggling with debt caused by the pandemic and lockdowns, and those that performed well, investment is crucial as they face pressure from shareholders and lenders. Amy Carr of Burges Salmon asks if 2021 will be the year of recapitalisat…