All Reporting articles – Page 4
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Features
Fair Competition
Paul Stone outlines the proposed new UK regime for regulating competition and for dealing with those who break the rules
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Pain Relief At Bayer
Lee Coppack discusses the impact of recent events on German pharmaceuticals and chemicals group Bayer
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Unilever: The risk spectrum
Unilever provides its customers with everything from tea to household cleaners. Lee Coppack highlights the corporate governance and risk management issues facing the dual nationality group
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When the inspector calls
The contaminated land regime is now heading into an important phase. Risk management principals are at the core of the new legislation, says Sue Cooley
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Trouble ahead?
Nick Stanbury looks at the practical implications for company directors of the proposed UK company law changes
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New laws, new liabilities
Forthcoming UK legislation will impose new liabilities on directors. In some cases, they will risk not only fines, but imprisonment. William Allison reviews the changes
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Transactions increase vulnerability.
Negotiating mergers, acquisitions and IPOs can leave directors open to claims. Charles Boorman discusses the risks and how to protect yourself against them
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Extortion or malice?
How do you prevent product extortion or malicious tampering - and how do you deal with the situation if the worst happens? Christine Seib gives some pointers.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Take the right risks for success
AIRMIC has published new professional guidelines for risk reporting, to help organisations comply with corporate governance requirements.
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On the record
Honest and open media strategies play a crucial part in successful crisis and risk management, stresses former police spokesman Matt Tapp.
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Nothing venture....
Corporate leaders may be winners at managing risk but many are in danger of losing the ability to innovate, warns Rob Anderson.
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Analysis
European call for CSR
European commissioners have presented a Green Paper promoting a European framework for corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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Misunderstood and under-utilised?
Forget the old image of the number-crunching and fault finding internal auditors, whose main concern was enforcement of the rules.
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Analysis
Iceland:Frozen Value
A rather unglamorous frozen food and freezer chain, Iceland’s shares were 113 times oversubscribed when the company went public in 1984.
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Reassessing longtail exposures
A recent court decision will cause some companies to reassess their liabilities where past operations have exposed their employees and others to asbestos.
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Analysis
Top US corporate citizens
A recent issue of Business Ethics magazine lists the 100 best corporate citizens for 2001, America’s most profitable and socially responsible major public companies.
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Features
Right to vote
Investing in companies in some countries becomes a gamble if you can't get information or influence operations. Sue Copeman says shareholders are pressing for change.
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Analysis
Raising the profile of PFI
Dot.com investors and analysts know to their cost that it is difficult to get hold of reliable forward-looking information about companies.
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Analysis
Disclosure still lacking
Old economy companies may be better at voluntary disclosure than their new economy counterparts - but neither are giving investors what they want.
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AIRMIC Portfolio
Railtrack's new approach
Railtrack has formalised its risk management approach by setting up a risk review group to lead and co-ordinate the risk management activities of the company.
