Later this year a history of the Cadbury Committee, written by Professor Laura Spira and Judy Slinn, will be published by Oxford University Press: see here. The book's sources include papers in the Cadbury Archive at Cambridge donated by Sir Adrian Cadbury. Earlier this year Sir Adrian returned to Cambridge and, at a symposium organised by the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network to mark twenty years since the publication of the Cadbury Report and Code, donated to the archive copies of all of his corporate governance speeches.
Following the symposium Sir Adrian was interviewed and offered some insights into the work of the Committee. During the interview he explained that in his view it would have been helpful if, twenty years ago, a legal requirement for a properly constituted audit committee had been introduced. He also said that board self-evaluation was something that he would have liked to have pursued but it was too early to do so. A video of the interview is available below:
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Monday, 26 August 2013
UK: Sir Adrian Cadbury, the Cadbury Archive and a history of the Cadbury Committee
Later this year a history of the Cadbury Committee, written by Professor Laura Spira and Judy Slinn, will be published by Oxford University Press: see here. The book's sources include papers in the Cadbury Archive at Cambridge donated by Sir Adrian Cadbury. Earlier this year Sir Adrian returned to Cambridge and, at a symposium organised by the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network to mark twenty years since the publication of the Cadbury Report and Code, donated to the archive copies of all of his corporate governance speeches.
Following the symposium Sir Adrian was interviewed and offered some insights into the work of the Committee. During the interview he explained that in his view it would have been helpful if, twenty years ago, a legal requirement for a properly constituted audit committee had been introduced. He also said that board self-evaluation was something that he would have liked to have pursued but it was too early to do so. A video of the interview is available below:
Friday, 16 November 2012
UK: the Cadbury Report and Code - marking the twentieth anniversary
The Financial Reporting Council has published a transcript of the speech delivered by Sir Adrian Cadbury at the recent FRC event held to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the Cadbury Report and Code: see here (pdf).
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
UK: FRC marks Cadbury Code's 20th anniversary with publication of essays
The Financial Reporting Council has today published a collection of short essays to mark the twentieth anniversary (on 1 December 2012) of the publication of the Cadbury Report and Code, upon which the UK's modern corporate governance framework has been built: see here (pdf).
Friday, 24 August 2012
UK: 'theft on a grand scale' and the sentencing of Asil Nadir
In December 1992 the Cadbury Committee published its report and code of best practice. A little short of twenty years later, one of the events that led to the Committee's formation, and which shaped the focus of its work, has returned to the news: the collapse of Polly Peck International plc, an apparently successful company. Asil Nadir, the company's chief executive and chairman, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment yesterday having been found guilty by a jury of ten counts of theft from the company. The judge's sentencing remarks, directed at Mr Nadir, have been published on the England and Wales Judiciary website: see here (pdf). Five words from the opening paragraph dominate the news reports: "theft on a grand scale".
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