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Item List : "Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance"

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1. Committee meeting, handwritten notes, undated.

Concentrates on the form of the report to be produced by the Committee. Includes notes headed Mike Sandland, ISC and Brandon Gough, Coopers & Lybrand.

2. Letters from three recipients of the [Cadbury] report.

Acknowledgement letters from Scottish Hydro-Electric, TSB Group and BET.

3. Correspondence, June and July 1991, between Roger Haywood, Institute of Public Relations and Sir Adrian Cadbury

Letter suggests including a public relations representative on the Committee.

5. Correspondence relating to CBI Steering Group on Corporate Governance meeting on 25 June 1991.

Comprises letter, agenda, list of corporate governance steering group members and Sir Adrian's handwritten notes for his report.

6. Letter, dated 3 July 1991, from AC Hugh Smith, Chairman of London Stock Exchange

Letter expresses surprise that no Chief Operating Officer or Chairman of a industrial company is a member of the Committee.

7. Letter, dated 4 July 1991, from Hugh Collum, SmithKline Beecham about meeting dates

Correspondence advising Sir Adrian Cadbury of suitable and unsuitable meeting dates. Handwritten note by Nigel Peace - alternative dates being sought.

8. Letter, dated 17 July 1991, from Sir Ron Dearing, Financial Reporting Council

Letter advises Sir Adrian Cadbury of meeting where a wider remit was suggested and successfully argued against.

9. Letter, dated 18 July 1991, from JP Charkham, Bank of England.

Reports a recommendation to add another industrialist to the Committee.

10. Letter, dated 14 August 1991, from AC Hugh Smith, London Stock Exchange, about additional member of the Committee

Considers the inclusion of an additional member of the Committee at Chief Executive or Chairman level.

11. Letter, dated 19 August 1991, from Andrew Likierman, London Business School

Letter addressed to Nigel Peace includes comments by chapter on the structure of the report, with handwritten side annotations and a note by Nigel Peace.

12. Letter, dated 23 August 1991, from Sir Ron Dearing

Suggests possible representatives on the Committee.

13. Fax letter from Mrs SE Brown, DTI, 30 August 1991.

Fax contains comments on a proposed structure for the final output and short comments on papers for the next meeting

14. Letter, dated 5 September 1991, from JP Charkham, Bank of England

Letter comments draft work programme and report, additonally commenting favourably on training programme for directors and legislation.

15. Letter from Ian Hay Davison, dated 10 September 1991, should have speech to ICAS attached

Letter should be accompanied by transcript of speech to ICAS - may be elsewhere.

18. Issues for the Committee's successor body, 30 November 1994 and Sarah Brown's response to enquiries about progress in implementing three recommendations in [the Cadbury] report.

Highlights issues for a successor body, namely, research into compliance, research funding and recommended amendments to the Companies Act. Sarah Brown's letter deals with directors' service contracts, fees paid to audit firms for non-audit work, protection for auditors reporting fraud.

20. Letter, dated 13 December 1991, to Andrew Hugh Smith

Letter seeks to clarify the focus for the Committee. Letter also sent to Sir Ron Dearing and Mike Lickiss.

21. Letter, dated 14 January 1992, to MG Lickiss

Letter is responding to MG Lickiss' comments on his draft [Standards of financial reporting and auditing] and clarification of focus of the Committee.

22. Letter from Richard C Breeden, US Securities and Exchange Commission, 27 April 1992.

Sir Adrian Cadbury had advised RC Breeden of forthcoming draft report and offered to send him one. Nigel Peace has added handwritten post-it note saying he will contact Walter Stahr (also of US SEC) to discuss.

23. Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance Draft Report issued for public comment, 27 May 1992.

The draft report was issued after considering the views of many who were consulted or submitted evidence. The views came from institutes, companies and individuals. The Committee also considered relevant published documents. The draft report included the Code of Best Practice.

24. Letter from PJ Butler, KPMG Peat Marwick, 10 July 1992.

Letter supports Sir Adrian remaining as figurehead to deal with matters arising in following two years.

25. Letter, dated 22 July 1992, to Sir Andrew Hugh Smith, Sir Ron Dearing, Jim Butler and Sir Adrian Cadbury.

About the publication of the final report or separate code and involvement of commercial publishers.

The Cadbury Archive at Cambridge Judge Business School consists of papers compiled and preserved by Sir Adrian Cadbury from his time as Chairman of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance.

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