Margaret wrote to me over the weekend and asked about Corporate Governance. In the past I have tended to steer clear of this as it is something that is too thorny for my humble site and it's an ever fluid issue that is difficult to keep on top of. This time, however, I got to grips with it by doing a search and review of some of what's available on the Internet in this area. I have put together a Word file on this that will be in the Business Section of my site before too long but here are the main links I found that should prove useful for Margaret and others lookinto this issue: A corporate view of a company's own Corporate Governance affairs at http://www.prudential.co.uk/prudentialplc/aboutpru/coportategovernance/ Here’s a short essay on CG from Global Change, at: http://www.globalchange.com/corporategovernance.htm Ever heard of the National Criminal Intelligence Service? Here it is, with its own corporate governance section: http://www.ncis.co.uk/corporategovernance.asp. The Association of British Insurers has a page on corporate governance http://www.abi.org.uk/Display/default.asp?Menu_ID=705&Menu_All=1,704,705 that has several highlighted issues that lead on to links within their site. Go to http://www.manifest.co.uk/manifest_i/index.htm to start answering these questions. the link for this essay is http://www.manifest.co.uk/manifest_i/2002/0210Oct/021001editorial.htm The there’s the Information Assurance Advisory Council, again I’d never herad of them but here they are discussing corporate governance at http://www.iaac.org.uk/initiatives/governance.htm. Their introductory paragraph says: the document Engaging the Board: Corporate Governance and Information Risk is at http://www.iaac.org.uk/initiatives/CG%20Recommendations%20Paper.pdf, takes you to a 41 page PDF file that has headings of great interest to anyone beginning a study of corporate governance in the UK. Well worth the download time! The Guardian newspaper had an article on 5 July 2002 in which it reported on Corporate governance and auditing rules, saying The full article is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,750233,00.html Local Government has also embraced corporate governance in the UK. Here is a page from Leicester City Council in which they set out their Local Code on Corporate Governance, at http://www.leicester.gov.uk/departments/page.asp?pgid=3355 Go to the Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) at http://www.brass.cf.ac.uk/Links4.html There's a lot to think about there to get you going! DW