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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Wates Corporate Governance Principles for large private companies – seven years on
- May 2026
- ICAEW
The Wates Principles were developed to give large private companies in the UK a framework for raising standards and demonstrating good governance, at a time when new legislation required them to report on their corporate governance arrangements. Since their introduction in 2018, there are now over 500 of the UK largest privately-owned businesses – with a combined annual turnover of more than £850 billion – that voluntarily apply the Wates Principles.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The role of boards in managing risk
- Apr 2026
- ICAEW
This session sought to help boards, directors and their advisers to improve their approach to managing risk. The session drew on the Risk Coalition’s latest publication ‘Raising your Game’, which provides cross-sector guidance for boards and their committees with risk oversight responsibility.
FTSE 350 Women Leaders Review highlights continuing progress
- Mar 2025
- ICAEW Insights
Latest report on women in leadership roles at FTSE 350 companies finds that the majority are within striking distance of the 40% target for women’s representation in boardrooms.
CFO most diverse C-suite role amid patchy progress
- Mar 2024
- ICAEW Insights
White men still hold three-quarters of chair, CEO or CFO roles across FTSE 350 and more than half of board and executive committee positions, study finds.
An interview with a Women in Leadership graduate
- Feb 2024
ICAEW’s WiL leadership programme is for women working across practice, industry and public sectors in senior management, partner or board roles. In this interview, Emma Read, Group Accounting at PD Ports, shared her account on why she enrolled on WiL.
Board experience trumps diversity
- Nov 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Boards are prioritising plc experience in new director appointments over diversity, new research shows.
Investor concern over directors over-boarding
- Aug 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Holding board seats at three or more firms could pose a significant challenge to directors’ abilities to fulfil their governance duties, investors warn.
CORPORATE FINANCE FACULTY
Jon Moulton: The new rules for board games
- Mar 2023
- Jon Moulton
There’s no simple formula for putting together the right board of directors. If only there was, says Jon Moulton.
Parker Review sets new goals to boost DE&I progress
- Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
FTSE companies have made significant strides with ethnic diversity on boards, according to the Parker Review – but deeper details show there’s still a long way to go.
UK financial boards increase diversity faster than EU
- Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
The UK is leading Europe in increasing both female representation and women leading sustainability initiatives at board level in financial services companies, analysis shows.
EU quotas loom for gender diversity on boards
- Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Although the pending legislation is welcome, a mixed picture on female board representation across the EU means the new ruling will have its work cut out.
Women in leadership
- Mar 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Female representation at board level across the UK’s largest companies is on the up, but women are still the exception rather than the rule when it comes to bagging executive roles such as the CFO.
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Diverse boards lead to success
- Dec 2021
- Yetunde Hofmann
- Business and Management
Why are black women largely absent?
An interview with a WiL graduate
- Mar 2021
ICAEW's Women in Leadership (WiL) programme is designed to help women in senior management, partner or board roles refine and craft their authentic leadership style. In this interview, Dianna MacDuff, Head of Business Development at British Sugar shares why she enrolled on WiL.
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Women’s journey to the board as finance professionals
- Dec 2020
- ICAEW Insights
In November 2020, ICAEW collaborated with The British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong to co-host a webinar with over a hundred attendees
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
Getting new faces into the boardroom
- Oct 2020
- David Levenson
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
David Levenson of Coaching Futures asks whether we need to think differently about the composition of boards and aim to attract younger board members.
Genuine engagement needed to tackle lack of ethnic diversity at board level
- Feb 2020
- ICAEW Insights
A new report has called on listed companies to tackle a lack of ethnic diversity in the boardroom through a combination of genuine engagement, targeted metrics and awareness training. But does this go far enough, fast enough? Rachel Willcox reports.
Getting women on boards
- Mar 2015
- Helen Roxburgh
- Economia
Helen Roxburgh looks at its merits, and which countries are doing it best
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