Corporate Governance The Coca-Cola Company is committed to sound principles of corporate governance. The Board is elected by the shareowners to oversee their interest in the long-term health and the overall success of the business and its financial strength. The Board serves as the ultimate decision making body of the Company‚ except for those matters reserved to or shared with the shareowners. The Board selects and oversees the members of senior management‚ who are charged by the Board with conducting
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Case Study A Case Study in Corporate Governance & Ethical Auditing Satyam Fiasco & Role of PwC as an Auditor Group I Submitted By: Aditya Zutshi Ambrish Mani Piyush Anandani Ravinder Pal Singh Dhillon Abstract & Approach On Dec 16‚ 2008‚ Satyam declared to buy entire stakes in Maytas Properties for $1.3 Billion & 51% stakes in Maytas Infra for another $300 Million. By this action‚ the investors were furious. This was because of the move to invest in a promoter-related
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Corporate governance bmg718 | Corporate Governance Benchmarking Project | BDO LLP UK | | Melanie Lloyd‚ B00532809 | 5/7/2013 | Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Theories of Corporate Governance 6 3. BDO Governance in Practice 12 4. Conclusion 15 5. Bibliography 16 1. Introduction 1.1. Evolution of Corporate Governance There are a number of ways of defining ‘corporate governance’; operationally it is considered to be “the process by which companies are directed
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Corporate Governance in Hong Kong 1. Corporate Governance in Hong Kong Hong Kong’s position as an international economic and financial center is attributed to its exemplary corporate governance. With Hong Kong’s various authorities and regulatory bodies emphasizing on transparency and accountability for listed companies‚ Hong Kong was ranked first for corporate governance among 11 Asian countries in 2007. (Refer to Appendix 1) The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) describes corporate
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. Enron senior management gets a failing grade on the truth and disclosure and a passing grade on arrogance and greed. For Fifteen years Enron was a paper tiger with few questions ever asked concerning its earnings profitability or business practices. The deceit and deception by Enron management seems to be the environment of a divisive marketing campaign that Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffery Skilling and Andrew Fastow hide while touting Enron. In reality Enron was one of the greatest Ponzi schemes to date
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BUSINESS ETHICS & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OCS AGENDA • Understanding Ethics • Managing Business Ethics • Corporate Social Responsibility • Complexity of Ethical Issues • Ethical Leadership • Evaluation of Corporate Governance • Internal & External Corporate Governance mechanisms • Corporate Governance Ratings OCS Scams OCS Values • Fundamental beliefs • Principles for good‚ right and just • Evaluate something vis-à-vis a Standard • Integrity‚ Patriotism‚ Fairness OCS Morals • Values attributing
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memo is to address the accounting maneuver of Lehman’s Repo 105 (or 108) from perspectives of accounting and corporate governance. The memo will illustrate the role of repo transaction in Lehman’s business model‚ analyze the accounting irregularities regarding repo by Lehman‚ observe auditors’ role in these irregularities‚ and discuss the corresponding accounting and corporate governance issues. In addition‚ the memo will provide recommendations on how to prevent financial institutions from abusing
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE What is Corporate Governance? It is a set of systems‚ principles and processes by which a company is governed. It provides guidelines as to how the company can be directed or controlled so that it can fulfil its goals and objectives in a manner that adds to the value of the company and is also beneficial to all the stakeholders in the long run. The term was first used by Robert Ian in his book in the year 1984. It addresses the issues facing the Board of Directors such as
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each year took nearly five months. if properly done‚ these audits should have uncovered the problems and forced action long before April‚ 1990 4. In the case of BCCI‚ there can be no question that the auditing process failed to work. As the Bank of England stated in determining that BCCI be closed 5. Given the demonstrable failure of the auditing process‚ serious questions have been raised about how and why BCCI’s outside auditors permitted BCCI to flourish as long as it did‚ despite fraud
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Issues December 16‚ 2008: Satyam board approved a 51% stake acquisition of Maytas Infra‚ a listed company in the Bombay Stock Exchange for US$1.3 billion and 100% stake in unlisted firm Maytas Properties for US$300 million. Both of these firms were in the construction and real estate business and Satyam’s chairman‚ Ramalinga Raju family held a 36% stake in Mayta’s Infra and 35% stake in Maytas Properties. Implication: The deal was seen as a way of diverting cash from Satyam’s shareholder to Satyam’s
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