Perhaps the most famous definition of corporate governance was provided in 1992 by Sir Adrian Cadbury in the Report on Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom: “Corporate governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled.” Here corporate governance is defined as a set of
Perhaps the most famous definition of corporate governance was provided in 1992 by Sir Adrian Cadbury in the Report on Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom: “Corporate governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled.” Here corporate governance is defined as a set of
Background
Sridhar Arcot and Valentina Bruno in their article called "In Letter but not in Spirit: An Analysis of Corporate Governance in the UK" explain …
History lesson: Cadbury 1992
According to The National Computing Centre, 2010: • Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance
See also
• Corporate governance• Hampel Report (1998)• Turnbull Report (1999)
External links
• Report of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (the Cadbury Report)— Archived 27 August 2023 at the Wayback Machine
The Cadbury Report, titled
Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, is a report issued by "The Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance" chaired by Sir Adrian Cadbury, chairman of Cadbury, that sets out recommendations on the arrangement of company boards and accounting systems to mitigate corporate governance risks and failures.The Cadbury Report (1992) has provided us with the legacy of definition of the corporate governance as the "
system by which companies are directed and controlled", voluntary adoption of the governance best practices and the "comply or explain" principle.
Notwithstanding these views, how many can argue with the fact that the definition that came out of the Cadbury report is still regarded as the classic definition of corporate governance. “Corporate governance is the system by which companies are directed and controlled. Boards of directors are responsible for the governance of their companies.