Meetings and Ethics

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Querist : Anonymous

Querist : Anonymous (Querist)

23 March 2011 Hello Sir,
I want to know the difference between "Board Meeting" and "General Meeting".
&
What is Corporate Governance?

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RAMESH KUMAR VERMA

RAMESH KUMAR VERMA (Expert)
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25 March 2011 dear ,
The general shareholders meeting is for both the shareholders and officers to discuss the public details about the business; e.g., what was the profit or loss, what great things they accomplished, etc., then they nominate the board members. The board meeting is just the directors and officers of the corporation.

Corporate governance:-

is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way a corporation (or company) is directed, administered or controlled. Corporate governance also includes the relationships among the many stakeholders involved and the goals for which the corporation is governed. In contemporary business corporations, the main external stakeholder groups are shareholders, debt holders, trade creditors, suppliers, customers and communities affected by the corporations activities. Internal stakeholders are the board of directors, executives, and other employees.

Corporate governance is a multi-faceted subject.[1] An important theme of corporate governance is the nature and extent of accountability of particular individuals in the organization, and mechanisms that try to reduce or eliminate the principal-agent problem. A related but separate thread of discussions focuses on the impact of a corporate governance system on economic efficiency, with a strong emphasis on shareholders' welfare; this aspect is particularly present in contemporary public debates and developments in regulatory policy (see regulation and policy regulation).

There has been renewed interest in the corporate governance practices of modern corporations since 2001, particularly due to the high-profile collapses of a number of large corporations, most of which involved accounting fraud. In the U.S., these include Enron Corporation and MCI Inc. (formerly WorldCom). Their demise is associated with the U.S. federal government passing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, intending to restore public confidence in corporate governance. Comparable failures in Australia (HIH, One.Tel) are associated with the eventual passage of the CLERP 9 reforms. Similar corporate failures in other countries associated stimulated increased regulatory interest (e.g., Parmalat in Italy). Corporate scandals of various forms have maintained public and political interest in the regulation of corporate governance.

for more info about corporate governance read:-
http://www.beyondgreypinstripes.org/pdf/CGReport.pdf

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