Description: Written by a leading authority in the field, this volume ensures that companies and individuals function within the best practice parameters of corporate governance, providing invaluable advice on legal, ethical and practical parameters. The ninth edition reflects recent changes in the field.
Brief description:
EUR ING Prof Andrew D Chambers, BA, PhD, CEng, FCA, FCCA, FIIA, FBCS, CITP
Twice mentioned in House of Lords' debates as an authority on corporate governance and internal auditing and by The Times as 'a worldwide authority on corporate governance', Andrew has been a non-executive director of a FTSE250 financial institution, a well-known mutual, small software companies, an NHS acute hospital trust and a well-known charity - usually having chaired their audit committees. He has conducted external, independent board evaluations for banks and public bodies.
He was Dean of what is now the leading Bayes Business School where he is Professor Emeritus and, until 2013, was Professor of Corporate Governance at London South Bank University. He was Professor of Audit and Control at the University of Hull from 1994-98 and has held visiting professorships at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium (twice) and at Birmingham City University.
In 2010 he was appointed as the Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords' Economic Affairs Select Committee's Inquiry into Auditors: market concentration and their role that led to audit market reforms. Andrew was one of a seven-member UK committee which, in 2013, published Internal Audit Guidance for Financial Services.He has been a member of the UK FRC's Auditing Practices Board and until 2017 he chaired the Federation of European Accountants' (FEE's) Corporate Governance and Company Law committee (Brussels).
Andrew has been a director of The Institute of Internal Auditors Inc. and a member of their International Internal Audit Standards Board for ten years on two separate occasions. He has received the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors' Distinguished Service Award and the Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award of the Global Institute of Internal Auditors. Author of more than 20 books, including Operational Auditing Handbook - Auditing Business & I.T. Processes (2nd edn, 2010, Wiley, ISBN 0470744766) andTolley's Internal Auditor's Handbook(2nd edn, 2009, LexisNexis, ISBN 9781405735674).
email: ProfAChambers@outlook.com
Review Quotes:
"An excellent guide for those of legal and other backgrounds who are involved in issues of Corporate Governance. [It deals] with a complex, difficult challenge facing companies, and indeed society ... [It] is also readable at many levels, from the specialist practitioner to the management dealing with Governance, all the way to the student dealing with this topic ... it comes highly recommended to all potential readers." --The Law Journal UK (of a previous edition)
"Well-written and has an excellent index ... the material is also divided into relatively short paragraphs meaning the point is quickly made ... For anyone involved in, or advising, companies, this is a useful text. It clearly explains the key principles, both legal and practical, of corporate governance issues. It will certainly be of considerable help to company directors, remuneration committees and audit committees ... [and] useful for legal advisors." --Student Law Journal (of a previous edition)