Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA) - Singapore Codes and Rules resource Organizations & Associations OCEG Reviewed
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Monetary Authority Of Singapore: Code of Corporate Governance (2005) resource Standards and Guidelines OCEG Reviewed
The Code of Corporate Governance (the "Code") came under the purview of MAS and SGX with effect from 1 September 2007.
Corporate Governance Report 2009: Boards in Turbulent Times resource Research / Studies
The tenth anniversary report by Heidrick & Struggles and their sixth comprehensive survey of Europe’s progress in Corporate Governance.
BIS, External audit quality and banking supervision (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, 2008) resource White Papers OCEG Reviewed
Summary:
This paper summarises four key areas of the Committee’s focus, including:
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- Bankers’ and supervisors’ reliance on external auditors’ expertise and judgments has increased
- High-quality audits, which enhance market confidence, particularly in times of severe market stress
- An increasing reliance on high-quality bank audits to complement supervisory processes
- The globalisation of major external audit firms has contributed to the complexity of their structures and a lack of transparency regarding their gover
Effective Information Governance: A Key Component to Improving Information Quality (2007) resource Articles OCEG Reviewed
It is highly unlikely that you would purchase a car without a speedometer. Nor would you board an airplane if you knew the instruments weren’t working. Yet we have seen organizations of all types operating without this kind of basic information on their speed, direction and other critical indicators. Many also don’t have insight into their operating and financial performance until long after they close the books, and even then they often have doubts about the accuracy and usefulness of this historic information.
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Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog resource Blog OCEG Reviewed
The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog is sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance. The Program seeks to facilitate research and public discourse about corporate governance.
Our weblog will provide updates on working papers, seminars, speakers, and other activities sponsored by the Program.
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NACD, Key Agreed Principles to Strengthen Corporate Governance for U.S. Publicly Traded Companies (2008) resource White Papers OCEG Reviewed
Introduction: Over the past decade, a host of detailed corporate governance best practice recommendations have issued from a variety of organizations representing the views of shareholders, management, and directors. These best practice recommendations agree on many key points (at least at the theoretical level); however, some important differences in viewpoints remain.
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UK, OGC, Government Procurement Code of Good Practice resource Agency Guidances OCEG Reviewed
The Government Procurement Code of Good Practice sets out the core values and behaviour for all members of central civil government’s supply chain: both government organisations and their suppliers1. It is a code of conduct for all members of the supply chain that encourages all participants to work together openly and co-operatively.
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CIOC, Best Practices Guide for Coordinating the Preparation and Audit of Federal Financial Statements (2007) resource Agency Guidances OCEG Reviewed
This Guide’s objective is to continue to foster and refine constructive working relationships between agency CFO and Inspectors General (IG), in the financial statement preparation and audit processes.
Goals: Consistent with the purposes of the CFO Act and the Inspector General Act of 1978, the CFO and IG communities have shared goals for the: (1) Production of complete, reliable, timely, and consistent financial information and (2) Improvement of systems of accounting, financial management, and internal controls.
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Aligning COBIT 4.1, ITIL V3 and ISO/IEC 27002 (2008) resource White Papers OCEG Reviewed
The briefing applies generally to all IT best practices but focuses on three specific practices and standards that are becoming widely adopted around the world. It has been updated to reflect the latest versions:
• ITIL V3Published by the UK government to provide a best practice framework for IT service management
• Cobi T 4.1Published by ITGI and positioned as a high-level governance and control framework
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