TY - BOOK AU - Kim,Kenneth A. AU - Nofsinger,John R. AU - Mohr,Derek J. TI - Corporate governance T2 - Prentice Hall series in finance SN - 9780135101582 (pbk.) U1 - 346.7307 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Upper Saddle River, Boston PB - Prentice Hall / Pearson Education KW - Corporate governance KW - United States KW - BUEsh KW - LLAAWW KW - July2016 N1 - Previous ed.: Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007; Index : p. 181-185; Includes bibliographical references; Chapter 1: Corporations and Corporate Governance Chapter 2: Executive Incentives Chapter 3: Accountants and Auditors Chapter 4: The Board of Directors Chapter 5: Investment Banks and Securities Analysts Chapter 6: Creditors and Credit Rating Agencies Chapter 7: Shareholders and Shareholder Activism Chapter 8: Corporate Takeovers: A Governance Mechanism? Chapter 9: The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Chapter 10: Moral Hazard, Systemic Risk and Bailouts Chapter 11: Corporate Citizenship N2 - A perfect supplement for courses in Corporate Finance, Accounting, a variety of Management courses like Strategy, Ethics and/or Business and Society, and Business Law. An overview of the corporate governance system in a flexible, modular format. Today the term "corporate governance" is familiar to almost everyone, mostly because of the emergence of so many shocking corporate scandals. Corporate Governance, in its flexible, modular format, sheds light on these recent problems and scandals through a detailed explanation of the corporate governance mechanism, and the various incentives within today's governance system, while offering potential solutions in context. The Third Edition of Corporate Governance includes up-to-date material on the economic crisis of 2008-2009 and offers current scholarly research in Recent Research boxes throughout the text ER -