...Background The need for corporate governance among listed and unlisted companies and state-run enterprises is so great in Zimbabwe. The drive toward corporate governance has been fuelled by a number of factors. There is wide recognition that corporate governance can contribute to the economic success of corporations and to their long-term sustainability (going concern). It is also recognised that good corporate governance can enhance corporate responsibility and improve the reputation of companies, which in turn can attract local and foreign investors. Corporate governance is also seen as a deterrent to corruption and unethical business practices that has scared our business image.( WOYO MANNERS 2013) The market discipline and transparency...
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...motivating the increasing interest in corporate governance and the benefits of good corporate governance Corporate governance is defined by the OECD principles as the relationship between management of a company, its shareholders, its board and other stakeholders. It is a system which is used for the purpose of controlling and directing the companies. Corporate governance is not a new concept but it has got popularity in the last few decades due to various crises such as: East Asian crisis of the late 1990s and various other fraudulent activities in the corporate world. Amongst the major reasons for the increasing interest in corporate governance are the following needs; Need for Stability of Stock Prices Stability of stock prices is one of the important factors for the investors to predict the future performance of a company or organization. Corporate governance has great impact on the efficiency of stock markets. For example, in the Asian crisis in 1997, poor corporate governance influenced the stock markets efficiency to the large extent Sabri (2007). This stability is only possible with the help of good corporate governance. Investors are always attracted towards well governed companies because such companies adopt transparent governance policies and have better financial accountability and higher profit margins. There is a worldwide effort to improve the corporate governance and insure greater shareholder accountability and corporate transparency, Solomon (2005). Therefore...
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...Investor Protection and Corporate Governance Introduction: This paper seeks to critically review the topic of corporate governance and its relation to the protection of investor rights and finances. The benefits of current corporate governance practices will be assessed as well as the disadvantages that exist in fully managing and mitigation the risks that investors face in the corporate financial environment. Additionally, the importance of the practice and implementation of corporate governance will be examined as a means of accurately demonstrating the overall merit and usefulness of corporate governance in today’s financial environment. Investor Protection: Defond & Hung, (2004) defined investor protection as the extent of the laws that protect investors’ rights and the strength of the legal institutions that facilitate the enforcement of those laws where they exist. This definition was further expanded by La Porta et al (2000) who postulated strong investor protection laws and similarly robust enforcement institutions were the main contributors to markets that promoted investment simply because the rights of the investors were seen to be adequately protected and the risk of exapropriation by managment was greatly reduced. It was therefore seen as critical that the protection of investor’s rights was necessary as minority shareholders were often exploited by creditors and majority shareholders extensively. La Porta, et al., (2000) further posited that, in the...
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...non-public SMEs’ corporate governance strategies in Turkey Gülsevim Yumuk Günaya , Sudi Apakb, a c a Trakya University, 22030, Turkey Beykent University, Istanbul, 34396, Turkey Abstract Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are very important for economic development. If proper corporate governance strategies are implemented by SMEs, their growth opportunities are expected to increase. In order to understand the impact of proper corporate governance strategies of SMEs, public and non-public companies are compared. In this study, corporate governance scores for nine public and nine non-public SMEs are calculated. It is found that only three of the public SMEs and none of the non-public SMEs had adequate corporate governance score which is based on Capital Market Board of Turkey’s corporate governance principles about stakeholders. © 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license th © 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 10 International Strategic (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Management Conference Peer-review under responsibility of the International Strategic Management Conference. Keywords: SMEs, Corprorate governance, Public firms, Non-public firms 1. Introduction Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are extremely important for all economies in the world. There are different reasons for this importance. First of all, SMEs...
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...|Corporate Governance | |The Importance of Corporate Governance in Organizations | |Final paper | SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION | | Julia Vassiljeva m987z202 Taiwan 2010 The importance of corporate governance in organizations With the recent financial crisis, companies’ defaults and crushes, the importance of corporate governance has risen significantly. Corporate scandals that have impacted companies all over the world have led to the re-examination of the role of corporate governance in their day to day operations. The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, April 1999) defines corporate governance as follows: "Corporate governance is the system by which business corporations are directed and controlled. The corporate governance structure specifies the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants...
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...Definitions of Corporate Governance There are many definitions for corporate governance. Sir Adrian Cadbury in his 1992 Report on the Committee on Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance p.15 says “Corporate Governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled.” Another definition is, “corporate governance can be defined as the stewardship responsibility of corporate directors to provide oversight for the goals and strategies of a company and foster their implementation.”(Cornelius 2005, p. 12). The OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms website (2010) states that corporate governance refers to “procedures and processes according to which an organisation is directed and controlled. The corporate governance structure specifies the distribution of rights and responsibilities among the different participants in the organisation – such as the board, managers, shareholders and other stakeholders – and lays down the rules and procedures for decision-making.” The Financial Times Lexicon website (2010) defines corporate governance as “How a company is managed, in terms of the institutional systems and protocols meant to ensure accountability and sound ethics. The concept encompasses a variety of issues, including disclosure of information to shareholders and board members, remuneration of senior executives, potential conflicts of interest among managers and directors, supervisory structures, etc.” Brancato and Plath (2003) p.8 say “Corporate governance is defined in...
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...Throughout this report I will evaluate the main elements of modern corporate governance structures and I will then focus and explain each of these and how they lead to good governance and how management accounting has a role in supporting them. Over time the meaning of corporate governance has been debated and discussed by economists not only in managerial economics but also in many other areas. In 1992, Adrian Cadbury described corporate governance as the “system in which companies are directed and controlled” (Cadbury,1992). But many other economists have completely different views and depictions of the term corporate governance. Cadburys statement above is only one sentence on corporate governance which other economists could write a thousand...
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...The Importance Of Corporate Ethics and Values: Building a Sustainable Strategy Model for Effective Implementation of Good Corporate Governance within a State-Owned Enterprise in South Africa. A Research Study Presented to the Graduate school of Business Leadership University of South Africa In Fulfillment of the Requirements for the MASTERS DEGREE IN BUSINESS LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA Prepared by Lazarus Docter Mokoena (called Bonga) [Student No: 0555-418-7] Tel: 011-217 1187 (Work); 011-679 5486 (Home) Cell: 082 466 6896 SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR M.H. CROSBIE FINAL RESEARCH REPORT November 2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................. 4 CHAPTER 1 ............................................................................................... 8 1. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 INTRODUCTION................................................................................. 8 ESKOM’s COMPANY BACKGROUND ................................................ 8 ESKOM’s BUSINESS CONDUCT POLICY .......................................10 PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH .......................................................12 PROBLEM STATEMENT .................................................................14 IMPORTANCE AND BENEFITS OF STUDY .....................................17 RESEARCH PROPOSITIONS AND HYPOTHESIS ...........................18 1.6.1 Propositions ...................................
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...Running head: RISK MANAGEMENT AND THEIR INFLUENCES Risk Management and Their Influences on Corporate Governance University of Maryland University College Graduate School of Management& technology Executive Summary Implementing a risk management process in line with organizational or business goals and objectives is vital for successfully managing or mitigating risk. Risk identification, analysis, handling, and monitoring should be addressed by all stakeholders. The process should be implemented in accordance with a pre constructed Risk management plan. A well developed risk assessment will make use of the considerable number of assessments, planning, and formal risk identification performed to provide a picture of the composite or overall risk associated with an organization. Also an effective risk mitigation strategy will provide a significant increase in the confidence level that a business or organization will meet its cost, schedule, and performance requirements. Introduction Risk is an important concept that plays a major role in the success of a business and organization. Risk is defined as the exposure to injury or loss. Every decision that we make as human beings contain some form of risk and most of the time the weight of the risk determine whether we will follow through with an action or not. Risk Management is a systematic way to keep those risks in check and a way to limit those risks in impacting the...
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...Corporate Governance in Financial Services UMACTF-15-M Corporate Financial Strategy – 2014 Student number- 07975484 Word Count- 2,021 Introduction Dictum Meum Pactum- My word is my bond. Simple, powerful, trustworthy. Unfortunately, the world we live in is not simple, those that hold power (and those that do not) are not always trustworthy. Moral hazard is rife in everyday decisions we make, when multimillion amounts are on the line this does not simply fade. In fact, the temptation to break moral code is as high as it will ever be. As much as we would like to trust those in control to be acting in our best interest, we definitely feel better when there are safeguards in place to ensure we are protected. These safeguards are the beginning of the notion of corporate governance, “The process of supervision and control intended to ensure that the company’s management acts in accordance with the interests of shareholders” Parkinson (1993). Over the course of this essay I will investigate and explain how corporate governance has failed and how this failure is arguably at fault for, or at least contributed to, the recent financial crisis in the UK. Critically assessing the pitfalls in corporate governance I will present a reasonable case for where responsibility lies for resolving previous problems and from this move to suggest potential areas for improvement that may limit the potential for future failure. What has happened? We have experienced financial...
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...MANAGING CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN WIDER BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT NAME ID INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY LTD Edexcel BTEC Level 7 Professional Diploma in Strategic Management & Leadership Managing Corporate Responsibility in Wider Business Environment Table of Contents INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 2 Page | 1 PART 01: .................................................................................................................................. 3 LO 1.1: Briefly explain how the globalization has an impact on a national economy ......... 3 LO 1.2: Discuss the influence of international institutions. .................................................. 4 LO 1.3: Explain the role of European Union on Unilever, UK. ........................................... 6 LO 2.1: Explain the importance of having good Corporate Governance for the organization ............................................................................................................................................... 7 LO 2.2 & 2.3: Discuss what regulatory requirements exist in the country shaping the corporate governance practices of an organization and their role in ensuring corporate stakeholder’s interest. ............................................................................................................ 8 LO 3.1: Discuss the economics of adopting a policy...
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...Annals of the University of Petroşani, Economics, 11(1), 2011, 187-196 187 INTERNAL CONTROLS IN ENSURING GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS KOSMAS NJANIKE, MARGARET MUTENGEZANWA, FUNGAI B. GOMBARUME * ABSTRACT: This paper assessed factors that influence the internal controls in ensuring good corporate governance in financial institutions in developing economies with special reference to Zimbabwe. The research paper assessed how lack of internal controls affected good corporate governance and aimed to bring out elements of good corporate governance. It emerged that failure to effectively implement internal controls contributed significantly to poor corporate governance. The study discovered that internal control system overrides and the issue of “fact cat” directors also contributed to poor corporate governance. The study recommended that there is need for the board of directors to guarantee an organizational structure that clearly defines management responsibilities, authority and reporting relationships. There is also need to ensure that delegated responsibilities are effectively carried out to ensure compliance with internal controls of the financial institution concerned. KEY WORDS: internal controls; corporate governance; ethical behaviour. JEL CLASSIFICATION: G21, G28; G30; G38. 1. INTRODUCTION The year period December 31 2003 to December 31 2004 witnessed the collapse of a number of financial institutions in Zimbabwe. This period witnessed a...
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...to fully understand the importance of having an effective investor protection framework in the banking industry, we must first examine what are the key characteristics of an effective investor program in the banking industry. Without proper legal frameworks and strong regulations in place, investors will be faced with higher losses due to fraud. Various academic theories surrounding corporate governance will be explored (agency; stewardship and stakeholder) in examining the investor protection framework within the banking industry. Peter Gourevitch argues that various differing corporate governance models exists globally as a result of differing political climates which shape the rules and regulations that make up a country’s corporate governance model. Erik Berglof and Stijn Claessens argue that enforcement is the key to good corporate governance. However, enforcement is a result of a country’s political system which ultimately decides on the framework for regulation and enforcement. Peter Mulbert discusses corporate governance of banks in a principal-agent framework and that the corporate governance of a bank differs from those of a regular firm. This is contrasted with T.G. Arun and J.D. Turner’s discussion of corporate governance of banks in developing economies. Rafael La Porta et al. in their paper “Investor protection and corporate governance” argue that “that the legal approach is a more fruitful way to understand corporate governance and its reform than the...
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...INTRODUCTION ........1 2.0 WHAT IS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 2 3.0 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE THEORIES…………………….……………..........3 3.1 Fundamental corporate governance theories……………………..……………….3 3.1.1. Agency Theory………………………………………………………………3 3.1.2. Stewardship Theory…………………………………………………………4 3.1.3. Stakeholder Theory………………………………………………………….4 3.1.4. Transaction Cost Theory…………………………………………………….4 3.1.5. Political Theory……………………………………………………….……..5 4.0 NEED FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE………….……………………………..5 5.0 PILLARS OF GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE…….......……………………7 5.1 Leadership…………………………………………………………………...…….7 5.2 Appointments to the board…………………………………….…………………..7 5.3 Strategy & values………………………………………………………………….7 5.4 Structure & Organisation………….....……………………………………………8 5.5 Corporate performance……………………………………………………..……..8 5.6 Corporate compliance……………………………………………………………..8 5.7 Corporate communication………...……………………………………………….8 6.0 OVERVIEW OF DEVELOMENTS IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE………..….8 6.1 Global Initiatives……………………..……………………………………………8 6.2 Corporate Governance in Kenya……………………………………..……………9 7.0 IRRESISTABLE CASE FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE………………........11 8.0 CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………11 REFERENCES………………………………………………………………………..…12 1.0 INTRODUCTION In today’s environment corporate Governance is not a luxury but a dire necessity...
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...as well as elaborating other principal causes of failure such as government interference and uncritical media coverage, A five year financial review of the company is provided beginning 1996 to the year 2000 showing how the operating revenue increased while the EBIT and profits decreased and finally led to losses. Mileski, J., & Nwabueze, U. (2008). The Challenge of effective governance: a case study of Swissair. Journal of Corporate Governance, 8, 5, 583-594 This article begins by giving a brief history of Swissair Company making note of its initial successes and good management practices. It then explores the best managerial practices that are crucial for the success of any business, laying emphasis on the precepts of effective corporate governance and their impact on businesses. The paper then explores the corporate governance practices that were common in the Swissair Company comparing them to the best corporate governance practices before clearly exposing the failures in corporate governance that led to the grounding of the company. This paper is important because it gives explicit corporate...
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