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Corporate governance codes and reports

The early 1990s saw increasing calls for standards in corporate governance to be raised in the wake of the BCCI and Maxwell cases. Since then, there have been a number of key reports on corporate governance in the UK which you can access through the links on this page.

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We also maintain an index of codes by year and a timeline of the UK's governance journey. We also have a separate page for current and recently concluded corporate governance reviews and inquiries.

If a code is not covered here, or is from a jurisdiction other than the UK it may be found on the website of the European Corporate Governance Institute

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C

Cadbury report
Combined Code on Corporate Governance (Now known as the UK Corporate Governance Code)
Committee on Corporate Governance: final report (Hampel report)

D

Davies report (Women on Boards)
Directors remuneration: report of a study group chaired by sir Richard Greenbury

F

Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance Committee (Cadbury Report)
FRC Guidance on Audit Committees
FRC Guidance on board effectiveness
FRC Risk Guidance

G

Greenbury report

H

Hampel report
Higgs report

I

Independent Review of Non-Executive Directors (Higgs Report)
Institutional Investment in the United Kingdom (Myners Report)
Internal control and financial reporting- guidance for directors of listed companies registered in the UK (The Rutteman Report)
Internal Control: Guidance for directors on the Combined Code (Turnbull Report)

M

Myners Report

R

Recruitment and development of non-executive directors (Tyson report)
Review of corporate governance in UK banks and other financial industry entities (Walker report)
Rutteman report

S

Sarbanes-Oxley
Smith report (FRC Group on Audit Committees report)

T

Turnbull report
Tyson report

U

UK Corporate Governance Code
UK Stewardship Code

W

Walker report
Wates corporate governance principles for large private companies
Women on boards
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