The financial crisis has regulators, governments, and the media focused on economic stimulus. However tough questions will soon be asked about what went wrong. Ineffective governance will be one of the first targets, and it won’t be just the financial sector that faces increased scrutiny[i]
Few doubt that effective governance has value, but to paraphrase Warren Buffet “the tide has gone out, and Sarbanes-Oxley for example, looks like it was swimming naked”. Investor confidence has not increased, management accountability is being called into question and the tens of billions spent by …

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