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We have reached the limit of what we can deliver through regulation – we need to restore trust in business and to create value by giving more emphasis to corporate culture – Corporate culture is indeed rising up the agenda but we need the right tools to better understand it, and embed it at each…
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Investors and other stakeholders expect that accountancy services, including auditing or assurance, can be relied on when taking important decisions, David Stevens, Integrity and Law Manager for the Institute of Charted Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). How do you evaluate the role of accountancy and related professions in safeguarding ethical business practices? As professionals…
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Australian businesses need a focus on ethical leadership, with rewards that counterbalance those for high financial performance. Leaders of every organisation, whether it is corporate, not for profit, government or academic, ignore the health of its ethical culture at their peril. In this world of instantaneous communication, a single lapse of judgment is rapidly posted to customers,…
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Firms face new human rights duties, write Paul Marshall and Niall McLean Behaving ethically, and being seen to be behave ethically, is an increasingly important aspect of doing business. In a climate in which businesses are subjected to unprecedented scrutiny and growing regulation, we can only expect that the ethical treatment of customers, local communities…
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