Bloomsbury Accounting and Tax Service
Eligible firms have free access to Bloomsbury Professional's comprehensive online library, comprising around 80 titles from some of the country's leading tax and accounting subject matter experts. Find out who is eligible and how you can access the
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Leadership
A chapter focusing on effective leadership by the board and its members.
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The effective board
A chapter analysing what makes boards effective, including achieving boardroom diversity and the role of board reviews.
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A job for the girls!
A chapter on the progress of women on boards, focusing in particular on how to increase the number of female chairs.
eBooks
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The chairman of the board
Chapter 11 looks at the Chairman's role in governance and their role on the board and the chair's interaction with CEO, company secretary, senior independent director (SID) and shareholders.
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Driven to the brink: why corporate governance, board leadership and culture matter
A collection of stories about how inadequate governance and flawed culture caused a massive destruction of shareholder value.
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How to Run a Charity enhanced
This guide offers practical support and advice to anyone involved in the management and administration of charities
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Corporate governance handbook
The Handbook provides full explanations of the statutory and regulatory regime applicable to listed companies but also, for the first time, addresses how governance best practice might be applied by private companies, including subsidiaries,
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Directors' meetings and resolutions
An authoritative guide to company secretarial practice. Detailed commentary is accompanied by over 80 precedents. Chapter 9 of the handbook - Directors' meetings and resolutions - looks at procedures around appointment of committees, board meetings minutes and the role of the company secretary in relation.
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Good boardroom practice: a guide for directors and company secretaries
An authoritative guide to company secretarial practice. Detailed commentary is accompanied by over 80 precedents. Appendix 3 - Good boardroom practice: a guide for directors and company secretaries
Industry press
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'We will look dimly on inappropriate dob-ins': TPB chairman
Australian advisers should tread carefully when using new reporting obligations to complain about peers, Tax Practitioners' Board chairman Peter de Cure tells ITR in an exclusive interview.
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Leading a board of directors in the UK
An in-depth overview of the role of the board chair in the United Kingdom. Includes the Chair's work in context and the UK's culture; relationships with shareholders, difficult board members, the CEO; COVID-19 challenges and a role profile of the chair in the UK.
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Audit committee effectiveness: practical tips for the chair
The article focuses on the effects of audit committee in day to day challenges faced by businesses. Topics include need of experienced, healthy skepticism, and strong communication skill based audit committee effectiveness; help of audit committees for adding new members to structured on-board process; and importance of executive and private sessions for effective functioning of the committee.
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Follow this job description for a board chair
Article give a list of the duties that a board chair should fulfil.