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Slide 3 Recommendation of Cadbury Committee
Slide 3 Recommendation of Cadbury Committee
GOVERNANCE
BM055-3-2
Cadbury Committee
Learning Outcomes
1. Appreciate the relevance and practical
application of business and professional
ethics in the working world;
2. Explain how corporate social
responsibility and corporate governance
relate to ethics;
3. Highlight the main ethical issues
relating to the natural environment.
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Cadbury Report
The Cadbury Committee issued a range of
recommendations for good corporate
governance in a Code of Best Practice.
Many of these recommendations applied
to UK listed companies were aimed at
improving financial reporting, the
effectiveness of the board, the rights of
directors in getting information & their
accessibility to information particularly to
the services of the company secretary
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Independent Director
The Code made specific
recommendations that non-executive
directors should bring independent
judgment and experience to the
deliberation of the board that executive
directors on their own may lack.
Executive directors service contracts and
remuneration, the Code recommended
that this be disclosed in the annual reports
and accounts
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