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The case for high CEO pay is magical thinking
- Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
A more positive view among corporates and investors of blockbusting CEO pay is based on a flawed prospectus, warns a leading management expert.
How a CEO’s pay package influences corporate culture
- Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
The composition of a CEO’s pay deal can have a direct effect on how a company behaves. Aligning remuneration with corporate operations is key.
Net zero is a chance to say yes
- Apr 2024
- Andy Boteler, Director of Finance at Riverford Organic Farmers
Andy Boteler is Director of Finance at Riverford Organic Farmers, is Senior Independent Director and Chair of Audit and Remuneration Committee at LungLife AI and is Chair of Audit Committee at Octopus AIM VCT PLC. Here, he shares his perspective on what it means to be an FD in a purpose-led, employee-owned organisation.
Executive pay rises amid cost-of-living crisis
- Aug 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Average CEO pay is now 118 times that of the average UK worker, compared with 108 times in 2021 and 79 times in 2020.
Hefty executive payouts come under the spotlight
- Apr 2023
- ICAEW Insights
As we await the verdict of the lawsuit challenging a $56bn pay package from Tesla to Elon Musk by aggrieved shareholders of the carmaker, is enormous executive remuneration really necessary – or indeed ethical – in today’s market?
UK executive pay increasingly linked to ESG targets
- Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
The UK’s top companies are increasingly including ESG corporate goals in executive pay plans, suggesting investor pressure for greater ESG disclosure is taking effect, new research shows.
More guidance for furloughed directors on annual payrolls
- Jan 2021
- ICAEW
29 January: ICAEW’s Tax Faculty highlights updated HMRC guidance confirming that directors paid annually and claiming grants under the third version of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme must align salary payments with claims.
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Long term incentive schemes
- Oct 2020
- Ian Wright
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
The manner in which senior executives of large public companies are remunerated is a high-profile issue and one which is likely to become even more sensitive in the context of Coronavirus.
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Booth and Booth
- Sep 2019
- Andrew Strickland
- Valuation Community Newsletter
Family Companies and Section 994, Companies Act 2006 - most common grounds by far were exclusion of a shareholder from management of the business.
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One year into gender pay gap reporting
- Jul 2019
- Jane Berney
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
The Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations came into force in April 2017 and so by now all organisations employing over 250 relevant employees have published (or should have) two annual reports. The reports consist of six metrics that quantify the difference in hourly pay and bonuses for men and women as well as the percentage of men and women in the highest and lowest earning quartiles of the workforce.
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How to end excessive pay
- Apr 2019
- Luke Hildyard
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
Excessive pay has been a growing source of public anger in recent years. Despite being snobbishly dismissed as populist prejudices, public perceptions of executive pay practices are largely accurate.
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Excess remuneration
- Jun 2015
- Andrew Strickland
- Valuation Community Newsletter
Section 994 Companies Act 2006 deals with conduct that is prejudicial to one or more shareholders. A relatively unusual circumstance for it is a claim that shareholders involved in management have been awarding themselves excessive remuneration.
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Taking the long view
- Jan 2015
- Neil Hodge
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
How should remuneration committees incorporate environmental, social and governance issues into executive pay awards? Neil Hodge reports.
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