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Month: May 2013
ProNed’s White Paper: Replete Analysis of “Non-Executive Officers in TSE Listed Companies”
ProNed hasproducedtheEnglish version of our 2012its corporate board white paper analyzing trends in the usage, backgrounds, voting support, and many other factors related to outside board members in Japan. The English version has more extensive annotation than the Japanese original and is designed to help a non-Japanese audience understand the relevant context of the data and analysis. As in previous years, the areas covered are Japan corporate board trends and shareholder voting activity.
Opinion on the Standard Setting to Address Risks of Fraud in an Audit (Business Accounting Council, Japan)
1. Background
Under current Auditing Standards, an auditor is required to perform an audit
DDI’s “Global Leadership Forecast” Shows Japanese Companies’ Self-Evaluation is Low
Only 38 percent of leaders and 26 percent of HR professionals in the global sample reported that the quality of leadership in theirorganization was very good or excellent (see Figure 3). Considerably fewer leaders and HR professionals in Japan (less than 5 percent in both groups) reported that the quality of leadership in their organization was high or very high.
“The Future of Fraud Detection” (and the incidence and costs of fraud)
The following entry appeared as part of Governance Metrics International’s GMI Blog. GMI is the leading independent provider of global corporate governance and ESG ratings and research. Corporate stakeholders – including leading investors, insurers, auditors, regulators and others – use GovernanceMetrics services to identify and monitor risks related to non-financial measures covering key environmental, social, governance and accounting risk factors.