Deciding to become a company director is a step that should be considered
carefully before taking on the role and responsibilities. The Companies Act 2014
has meant that a director’s duties and the scope of what a director needs to
know have increased enormously. In addition, the public now have much higher
expectations of the standards of behaviour of directors serving on
boards.
Key topics covered by this book include:
- The value of due diligence before deciding to accept
a directorship
- Company law, regulatory environment and corporate
governance guidance
- Differences between the role of non-executive and
executive directors
- Conflicts of interest and restricted activities
- Financial matters, including financial difficulty
- Risk tolerance and risk management
- Personal guarantees and indemnities.
“This book should be on every director’s required reading list. Its
practicality, coupled with its clarity on the role and responsibilities of
directors will enable them to perform their role with much greater insight and
confidence.”
Anne Heraty, CEO Cpl
Resources plc
“With his patient, logical approach David W. Duffy has written a clear
and authoritative reference for directors and potential directors who want to
understand their corporate responsibilities.”
Danny McCoy, CEO of Ibec
Read an extract of this book.
For further information, contact publishing@charteredaccountants.ie
or telephone on (+353) 01 637 7204
Download the table of contents.
The Author
David W. Duffy is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland.
He is the founder of Prospectus Management Consultants and CEO of The Governance Company, a leading online provider of governance education for directors of boards. A graduate in business from Trinity
College, Dublin, David trained as a Chartered Accountant with PwC in London and
holds an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has extensive corporate
governance consulting experience and has been writing books on the subject since
2004, including A
Practical Guide to Corporate Governance (Chartered Accountants Ireland,
2014). David has substantial experience as a director on the boards of
commercial, philanthropic, social services and sporting
organisations.
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