Japanese company, Toshiba, which has been restructuring after admitting accounting failures in 2015 has published its annual report for 2016 after receiving a qualified opinion from its auditor, PWC Arata, which meant the firm avoided being delisted from …
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Two private investors are taking legal action against Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) for failing to adequately disclose climate change risk in the bank’s 2016 annual report. The shareholders are being represented by Environmental Justice Australia which has filed a …
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No, says veteran US corporate governance activist James McRitichie, In his blog, CorpGov.net, Jim emphatically rebuts the claims made in a paper recently published by the US Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness which argues that the …
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The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has removed its tier three category of asset managers, which suggested they required improvement, in their adherence to its stewardship code.
The FRC launched an assessment in December 2015 of the signatories to …
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AIM-listed Real Good Food has admitted to not disclosing payments to directors in its related parties transaction notes within its annual reports for three financial years from 2014 to 2016.
These notes should have revealed the payment of consultancy fees …
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Nearly half (47%) of UK staff can achieve higher environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards without sacrificing profitability, according to research carried out by Opinium on behalf of the Better Society Awards and Citigate Dewe Rogerson.
The online …
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The quality of auditing of larger companies has improved after targeted work by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) the regulator said. The FRC said the leadership of audit firms’ focus on, and investment in, improving audit quality, together with promoting …
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