Hello Jon Tay I agree with your posted description. In the Figure shown in my article referred to above (posted at: https://community.cgiglobal.org/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=57f4e51c-3e15-4200-b492-c83590129487) I have proposed that each stakeholder constituency of ...

I find it challenging to keep up-to-date with the changes in the laws governing our practice, as Peter Turnbull has suggested. I rely on the Governance Institute of Australia for some of the changes but the ASIC website and my other legal contacts are my main sources of changes. Some of the larger ...

I would like to hear from others in the eCommunity on whether they would be interested to hear from governance professionals in a range of countries on the challenges they face and how they see their profession evolving. As Alan says above..."We are going to be around for a long time yet" and understanding ...

Sabrina Congratulations to all of those that earned an award. Integrated reporting is such an excellent reporting framework that encourages integrated thinking within an organisation, ties together how an organisation manages its resources and informs all stakeholders in a comprehensive way. I would ...

Sound Governance includes acting ethically. Good people may do bad things for reasons set out in my LinkedIn article of December 4th, 2018. Refer to: Why are good people blind to unethical institutions? Some specific systemic examples are set out in my article 'How shareholders, corporations ...

A serious challenge faced daily in this profession, is keeping up with the content and application of ever changing laws, regulations, proxy advisor ''advice'' and social media views. I'd like to know whether others experience similar challenges and if so, how do you go about tackling them? ------------------------------ ...

Hi Jon, Thank you for your thoughts - this is a compelling suggestion and is a concept I feel more and more professions will begin integrating into their training, whether it be of their own accord, or a necessity to keep up with the modern day. I wonder, if this were to develop, what time-frame do ...

Peter Thanks for your added information. May I assume that the external auditor does not need to be the Auditor-General who reports to Parliament rather than the Minister(s)? If a private sector external auditor can be used by GOCs, is their "client" the Parliament, The Ministers, the GOC, Directors ...

Thanks Shann. A few observations: * I posted the guidelines simply as an example of an accountability framework in the government owned corporations (GOC) sector - there are many variations around Australia and they are all subject to differing detail within them, * GOC's in Queensland, Australia are ...

In 2018 I organised a Symposium for the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference held at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. The objective of the June 21 Symposium was to define sound governance for any type of organisations. The session was moderated by the President of EURAM, Professor ...