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Corporate governance practices in Africa

Most countries across Africa have robust corporate governance codes of practice at present, as economic prosperity increases across the continent according to a new joint study by ACCA and KPMG.

Female leadership and board diversity

A recent report by Deloitte Women in the Boardroom: A Global Perspective, explores the efforts of 64 countries to promote boardroom gender diversity and reveals that women hold just 15 per cent of board seats worldwide, only a three per cent increase since the last edition of the report, published in 2015.

Revised JSE listing requirements

The value of AGMs 

Programme Boards

Major infrastructure projects can have the size and budget of a FTSE company, but don’t often have a governance structure to match. This has a material impact on their performance leading to budget and delivery failures. In the second of their series of roundtables, Socia examine how to improve the performance of Programme Boards.

The threat to the unitary board

Brian Quinn considers how the concept of the unitary board, generally accepted in the Anglo-Saxon business world, is under growing threat in the aftermath of the global economic crisis.

Self-governance?

Dr Shann Turnbull considers the advantages of replacing intrusive regulation with self-governance.

GDPR and what boards need to know

Penny Heyes looks at what boards need to know about and do to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) which will dramatically affect every organisation that holds customer data on EU residents.