Corporate Governance · glossary

Corporate governance

How a company is directed and checked: who decides what, on what information, and who watches them. A company with outside investors usually writes those rules down, as Brackenholme did in its board charter. Charter, paragraph (A) · Chapter 1

Explained in Chapter 1, What a Board Is For, of Corporate Governance.

How it comes up, in Chapter 1
Corporate governance is how a company is directed and checked: who decides what, on what information, and who watches them. A company with outside investors usually writes those rules down. This workbook follows one such set of rules, a board charter, through its first year. You are a junior in-house lawyer at the company and its assistant company secretary.
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