Business law publications

Collison, Cross, Ferguson, Power and Stevenson, 2011. The aim of the research project was to examine the rationale for the traditional business objective in the UK, which is the maximisation of shareholder value (MSV). The project included an analysis of relevant aspects of the Company Law Review (CLR) process in the UK, which ultimately led to the Companies Act 2006 and which determined that shareholder primacy would be maintained as a key principle of UK company law. The CLR had raised the central question: ‘in whose interests should companies be run?’ and put forward two alternatives: one based on shareholder primacy, and the other based on balancing the interests of a range of stakeholders. The two alternatives were described as ‘enlightened shareholder value’ and ‘pluralism’. (Ref: RR-125)

ACCA, July 2009 (3rd edition). A joint study by Consiglio Nazionale dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili and ACCA. This booklet has been prepared as an introduction to the basic elements of company law in the UK and Italy. It will, hopefully, prove of interest to accountants and businesspeople with cross-border interests as well as to other students of European company law.

ACCA and CNDCEC, July 2008. Joint statement by ACCA and the Consiglio Nazionale dei Dottori Comercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili (CNDCEC).

ACCA, March 2013. Following encouragement by the international authorities, Jamaica is now increasing its controls to combat money laundering and is boosting its domestic law enforcement and recovery procedures. This report summarises a day-long conference held in Kingston in February 2013 to review where Jamaica currently stands on these issues and to test its state of readiness to go further.