Keeping Good Companies articles from December 2006

Keeping Good Companies archives from December 2006

Keeping Better Company: Corporate Governance Ten Years On.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Keeping Better Company: Corporate Governance Ten Years On By Jonathan Charkham In 1994 Professor Jonathan Charkham wrote a key book entitled Keeping Good Company from his academic work with the Cass Business School (City University,...

Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Microfoundations and Structural Forms.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Microfoundations and Structural Forms Edited by Anna Grandori This book is extremely academic and is based upon an international conference on corporate governance organised by the Centennial of...

Corporate Governance.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Corporate Governance By Christine Mallin Of the many books written on corporate governance, this has to be one of the most straightforward. Professor Christine Mallin is the director of the Centre for Corporate Governance Research at the...

Taking continuous disclosure seriously: a landmark decision in Jubilee Mines.(COMPANY SECRETARY)
December 1, 2006... The recent award of a significant sum of damages (amounting to $1,856,000) to an investor in Kim Riley (in his capacity as trustee of the Ker Trust) v Jubilee Mines NL [2006] (1) (Jubilee Mines) by the Western Australian Supreme Court...

Major changes to the Trade Practices Act.(competition law)
December 1, 2006... 'The Trade Practices Act is an essential component of Australia's regulatory framework, and this bill enhances existing measures in the Act to provide greater accountability, transparency, timeliness and efficiency.' With these words, Chris...

CAMAC report--Personal Liability for Corporate Fault.(Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee, corporate law)
December 1, 2006... * CAMAC's views on the reform of liability legislation imposed on directors and other company officers * The committee's preferred model for national adoption and its views on the business judgement defence and designated officers As...

Client legal privilege--now you see it, now you don't!
December 1, 2006... Client legal privilege has recently received a lot of media attention with the attempts by AWB to prevent the Cole inquiry from accessing a number of its more sensitive documents. The comments by the judge in that case, and by media and...

Record-keeping under Workchoices.(employment law)
December 1, 2006... The Federal Government's WorkChoices reforms introduce stringent new record-keeping requirements for employers. (1) Employer groups and small business lobbyists have been highly critical of the new requirements since they were first...

Executive long-term incentives and performance measurement.
December 1, 2006... Much of Australian companies' executive long-term incentive (LTI) pay is wasted. It fails to motivate. This does not have to be the case. This article addresses why this is so and how the problem can be addressed. The main reason for...

The value in reviewing management information system processes.
December 1, 2006... As our management information systems grow in complexity, some obvious inefficiencies can creep in. An annual check-up of your processes can result in significant savings and can also save you from some embarrassing moments. With today's...

'Babyboomer' superannuation contributions.(State Focus)
December 1, 2006... Most of us now have a basic understanding of the proposed changes to superannuation stemming from the Budget announcement in May this year. Anyone retiring soon needs to properly understand the effect of these changes, particularly in relation...

Risk conspiracy? Risk miracle?(risk management)
December 1, 2006... I don't want to sound paranoid but is there a secret society of corporate governance writers using this template to write their articles? I wrote The RiskThinkers Guide to help you take a simple approach to corporate governance, risk...