Contents

Money talks

Progress on audit choice

The FRC has published an interim report looking at ways to deal with the current lack of choice in the UK audit market.

Beyond the financials

The European Centre for Corporate Engagement has published the results of a major survey into the use of extra-financial data by analysts and investors.

Is the Combined Code working?

SEC roundtables in May



Focus on corporate governance

Too much muscle?

It has become almost a ritual for UK listed companies to complain about the proliferation of corporate governance policies. What is the truth? Carl Sjostrom puts the perspective back into corporate governance.

Continuous fraud control

Harald Will argues that effective compliance systems add much more value to a business over and above merely helping to reduce fraud.

Does one size fit all?

This second article about non-executive directors by Mark Goodridge looks at the different qualities a non-executive ideally needs depending on what type of organisation they are joining and at what point in its life cycle.