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Board Guide

How does a Board fulfil its dual role of performance (ensuring long-term value creation) and conformance (ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, rules and codes)? What are the roles of the Board vis-à-vis management when developing and implementing corporate strategy? How should the Board engage shareholder activists, proxy advisers and the media, if at all? The answers to these questions, and more, are found in the Board Guide, the definitive guide to the roles, duties, challenges and leading practices of Boards. In its 3rd Edition (2018), this guide is part of a series of Corporate Governance Guides produced by Singapore Institute of Directors and published by Write Editions.

Audit Committee Guide

What are the differences between an internal and external auditor, especially with regard to auditor independence and the regulation of their professions? How can the AC reduce the risk of non-compliance with accounting standards and respond to regulatory reviews, such as the Financial Reporting Surveillance Programme? What are the differences between interested person and related party transactions, and what are the associated duties of the AC? The answers to these questions, and more, are found in the Audit Committee Guide, the definitive guide to the roles, duties, challenges and leading practices of ACs. In its 3rd Edition (2018), this guide is part of a series of Corporate Governance Guides produced by Singapore Institute of Directors and published by Write Editions. Read More

Board Risk Committee Guide

Different companies have different committees for risk management – Management Risk Committee, Board Risk Committee, Audit and Risk Committee, specialised Board-level risk committees such as Safety and Health Committee, and so on. How should a company best structure its governance of risk? How can a company express its risk tolerance or appetite and communicate that internally and externally? What are the lines of defence that a Board can rely on to ensure that the company’s risk management and internal controls are adequate and effective? The answers to these questions, and more, are found in the Board Risk Committee Guide. In its 3rd Edition (2018), this guide is part of a series of Corporate Governance Guides produced by Singapore Institute of Directors and published by Write Editions. Read more

Nominating Committee Guide

Why is gender diversity – or for that matter, Board diversity – important for an effective Board? How does an independent director suddenly lose his “independence” after nine years on the Board? How do directors remove the Board Chairman? The answers to these questions and more are provided in the Nominating Committee Guide, the definitive guide to the roles, duties, challenges and leading practices of NCs. In its 3rd Edition (2018), this guide is part of a series of Corporate Governance Guides produced by Singapore Institute of Directors and published by Write Editions. Read more

Remuneration Committee Guide

How much, and how, should CEOs be paid? Should shares be used to remunerate employees and directors? If so, what are the risks and risk management issues to consider? What are the kinds of demands regulators, shareholders and other stakeholders place on pay decisions and disclosures? The answers to these and other questions can be found in the Remuneration Committee Guide, the definitive guide to the workings of RCs, and the issues faced by them. In its 3rd Edition (2018), this guide is part of a series of Corporate Governance Guides produced by Singapore Institute of Directors and published by Write Editions. Read more

Resource Guide

The Corporate Governance Guides for Boards in Singapore is a series of online and printed guides to help Boards and directors of Singapore-incorporated companies to discharge their duties more effectively. The series consists of Resource Guide, Board Guide, Audit Committee Guide, Board Risk Committee Guide, Nominating Committee Guide, Remuneration Committee Guide, and eGuide to the Code of Corporate Governance. This Resource Guide provides readers with an overview of all seven Guides in the series, as well as useful navigational tips for both the online and printed versions. In its 3rd Edition (2018), this guide is part of a series of Corporate Governance Guides produced by Singapore Institute of Directors and published by Write Editions. Read More

Differentiation

The age of disruption has arrived – fast and furious. Technological advances have revolutionised the global economy in ways not envisaged, engendering major established and traditional industries to wobble and slide. In Differentiation, Dr Wilson Chew underlines the imperatives for companies to differentiate – in order to create value and win – through a series of compelling strategies, bold innovation and perceptive branding. Read more

Remote-Entrepreneurship

remote-Entrepreneurship™ marks a seminal contribution in the evolving field of entrepreneurship. Evidence-based and market-tested, the concept, model and strategy of r-entrepreneurship™ is set to help scores of people and aspiring entrepreneurs overcome their fear and dilemma of leaping from a stable corporate life to starting a business. With r-entrepreneurship, one can start a successful business without having to leave his or her job. Read more

Boardroom Matters

Does good corporate governance really benefit a company’s valuation? Why should an honest mistake made by a director be a crime? These and many other questions on the various facets of corporate governance and directorship are addressed in this important book “Boardroom Matters”. Essential reading for directors and corporate leaders. Read more

Boardroom Matters Vol. II

Corporate governance is a highly topical subject. It should concern anyone involved in a company since good corporate governance is important for corporate performance. This second volume takes off from where the first left off [from Volume I]. Each article in this collection stands on its own, and collectively reflect the crucial dual roles of boards: ensuring conformance with the rules of the operating environment, and performance of the company in the longer term. Read more

Boardroom Matters Vol. III

What can directors do to avoid conflicts of interest? What is the value and pitfalls of having an executive committee? How can boards ensure that their companies will survive and even thrive amidst digital disruption? Boardroom Matters Volume III: Towards Effective Boards features 50 articles that range from age-old issues of directorship such as director independence to more contemporaneous topics such as digital disruption.

Boardroom Matters Vol. IV

How do boards and directors stay relevant in the face of the evolving business landscape? What can directors do to ensure that the right systems are in place? How has the regulatory environment and pandemic-related disruptions changed the role of boards? This fourth volume of Boardroom Matters (The Evolving Role and Expectations of Boards) collects 50 articles published from late 2016 through most of 2020. Since the publication of the previous volumes, the world has changed forever. Expectations of the board during the major upheaval caused by the rapid spread of Covid-19 threw a spotlight on board effectiveness, crisis and risk management, board processes and corporate culture. With environmental, social and governance issues entering mainstream discussion, emerging topics of digital transformation, virtual general meetings and corporate conscience have dominated the boardroom agenda. Boards are now, more than ever, under increased pressure to evolve with the changing regulatory landscape.