Corporate accountability conference

Enhancing Accountability in Corporations

Conference convener: Dr Gerald Acquaah-Gaisie

• Conference Program (doc, 82kb)
• Abstracts of Presentations (doc, 134kb)

Corporate Accountability Conference was held at the Novotel Hotel, Melbourne City on 8 and 9 February 2006. This conference was organised by the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University and Monash University Gippsland Campus.

The numerous corporate collapses in recent years have engendered many interventions and debates aimed at finding solutions for corporate misconduct and under-performance.

The conference provided a forum for continuation of the search for mechanisms that minimize or prevent the sorts of problems that bring about the collapse and under-performance of many corporations worldwide.

The conference examined some of the challenges in this quest and the prospects of forging corporate governance systems that eschew misconduct and enhance viability.

“Misconduct” is not limited to criminal behaviour such as fraud. “Accountability” is similarly used in a broad sense and includes financial accountability, accountability to shareholders and other corporate stakeholders, regulators, society generally, and the environment.

Acting Group Director

Anthony Forsyth
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Tel: + 61 3 9903-2917