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Bakewell, Thomas and Darazsdi, James. Claiming Your Place at the Boardroom Table: The Essential Handbook for Excellence in Governance and Effective Directorship. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.

Claiming Your Place at the Boardroom Table: The Essential Handbook for Excellence in Governance and Effective Directorship

Authors: Thomas Bakewell and James Darazsdi

Published:  October 2014 Pages: 400

eISBN: 9780071833592 | ISBN: 9780071833585
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Your First Board
  • How Do You Find That First Seat at the Boardroom Table?
  • What Is Governance?
  • Nothing More Challenging
  • Types of Board Opportunities
  • What Does It Take to Become a Director?
  • Joining My First or Next Board of Directors
  • Director Searches from a Skills-Driven Process
  • 2 Being an Effective Director
  • Who Owns and Controls a Corporation?
  • Don’t be Sleazy, Sloppy, or Naïve
  • Independence and Independent-Minded
  • Conflicts of Interest and Related-Party Transactions
  • The Role of the Board of Directors as a Whole
  • Tools and Techniques for Protecting Directors from Liability
  • Nine Simple Low-Cost Tips for Liability Protection
  • Your First Big City Board Meeting and a Major Test
  • 3 The Royal Road to Exemplary Directorship
  • The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Dodd-Frank Act on Board Committees
  • Board Tools and Structures to Improve Committee Performance
  • Specific Committees in Action
  • Other Board/Committee Efficiency Issues and Tools
  • Case Study: New Era Faces the Future
  • 4 The Importance of Finance to Exemplary Directorship
  • Audits
  • The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) and Enterprise Risk
  • Overview of Financial Statements
  • Form 10-K, MD&A, CD&A, Form 8-K, Annual Report and Key Financial Ratios
  • The Numbers Don’t Lie
  • 5 Public Company Reporting
  • American Securities Regulation and the SEC
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Greed in America
  • Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
  • Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
  • Proxy Advisory Services
  • Case Study: General Motors Gets a New CEO
  • 6 Achieving Excellence in Governance
  • Best Practices in Governance
  • Benchmarking
  • CEO Commitment and Board Leadership
  • Governance Evaluations and Improvement
  • Board and CEO Succession Planning Today
  • Case Study: Directors Who Made a Difference at Ford Motor Company
  • 7 Activist Shareholders and Their Role in Governance
  • Why Do Activist Shareholders Take on Public Companies?
  • Activist War Stories and Board Battles
  • If It Is Not Working at the Top
  • Case Study: Pre-paid Legal Services, Inc., and the SEC
  • Conclusion: Claiming Your Place at the Boardroom Table
  • Notes
  • Index