Corporate governance best practices strategies for public, private, and not-for-profit organizations - Lipman, Frederick D.; Lipman, L. Keith 1967-. (Hoboken, N.J. Wiley, 2006)
Preface. Acknowledgments. -- Part I. Best Practices for all Organizations: 1. Why Is Corporate Governance Important? -- 2. Summary of Major Corporate Governance Principles and Best Practices -- 3. Best Practices to Monitor Risk in Different Organizational Departments -- 4. Monitoring and Changing the Corporate Culture -- 5. The Internal Audit Function -- 6. Compensation Committees of Public, Private, and Not-for-Profit Organizations -- 7. Other Committees -- 8. Independent Directors and Their Committees -- Part II. Information Technology Corporate Governance: 9. IT Content: Best Corporate Governance Practices -- 10. IT Security Best Corporate Governance Practices -- Part III. The Public Company Audit Committee: 11.Who Can Qualify for a Public Company Audit Committee? -- 12. Public Company Audit Committee: Personal Liability of Audit Committee Members -- 13. Minimum Responsibilities of Public Company Audit Committees -- 14. Other Public Company Audit Committee Functions -- 15. 30 Best Practice Considerations for the Public Company Audit Committee -- 16. Who Is an Independent Auditor? -- Part IV. Private and Not-for-Profit Organizations: 17. Corporate Governance for Family-Owned and Other Private Businesses -- 18. Corporate Governance for Not-for-Profit Organizations -- Part V. Appendixes: A. Summary of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 -- B. Risk Assessment Chart under Auditing Standard No. 2 -- C. "Uncooking the Books: How Three Unlikely Sleuths Discovered Fraud at World Com" -- D. Suggested Corporate Governance Web Site Resources -- Index.
Series from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Corporate governance