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1. ''Business ethics.''
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Any written statement of best practice or of ethical conduct in business.
In the commercial context, the framework that provides guidance on corporate strategy including assessing risk, ensures effective monitoring of management by the board of directors and makes certain the board is accountable to the company and the shareholders.




2. ''Conventions - conduct.''
2.


Any less formal statement of practice or understanding.
Comparable frameworks in non-commercial organisations. In the non-commercial context the term 'governance' (without the 'corporate' part) is more common.


For example, a dress code for a business setting or event.


 
== See also ==
3.  ''Abbreviations.''
* [[Board of directors]]
 
* [[Corporate social responsibility ]]
Abbreviation for any one of a number of particular codes, for example the UK Corporate Governance Code.
* [[ESG investment]]
 
* [[Governance]]
 
* [[Kay Review]]
4.  ''Information technology - software - noun.''
* [[UK Corporate Governance Code]]
 
* [[Ethics]]
Instructions for computers in machine-readable form.
* [[Agency risk]]
 
For example, binary code.
 
 
5.  ''Information technology - verb.''
 
To write instructions for computers in machine-readable form.




:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Coding skills will help future-proof treasury careers'''''</span>
===Other links===
 
[http://www.treasurers.org/node/10141 Doing the right thing, Sarah Boyce, The Treasurer, May 2014]
:"Even though machines may become a bigger part of the landscape, treasurers will still require core treasury knowledge to understand and check the work of machines.
 
:Also, learning skills like coding will help to future-proof treasury careers."
 
:''The Treasurer - 2022 Issue 3 - p22 - Courtney Huggins, director of group treasury at Canary Wharf Group.''
 
 
6.  ''Communication - abbreviations.''
 
A standardised, abbreviated string of letters, numbers, other characters - or some combination of these - designed to enable efficient and error-free communication.
 
For example, Bank identifier codes (BIC), currency codes, or the codes used in Standard Industrial Classification (SIC).
 
 
7.  ''Cryptography.''
 
Information represented in encrypted form, an algorithm or process designed to create encrypted messages, or the activity of creating an encrypted message.
 
 
==See also==
* [[ACT Ethical Code]]
* [[Algorithm]]
* [[Bank identifier code]]  (BIC)
* [[Bankruptcy Code]]
* [[Binary code]]
* [[Business identifier code]] 
* [[City Code]]
* [[Code of conduct]]
* [[Code of practice]]
* [[Code Staff]]
* [[Convention]]
* [[Cryptography]]
* [[Currency code]]
* [[Future-proof]]
* [[FX Global Code]]
* [[Information technology]]
* [[Prompt Payment Code]]
* [[Protocol]]
* [[Software]]
* [[Sort code]]
* [[Standard Industrial Classification]]  (SIC)
* [[UK Corporate Governance Code]]
* [[UK Money Markets Code]]
* [[UK Stewardship Code]]
* [[Uniform Commercial Code]]


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[[Category:Ethics_and_corporate_governance]]
[[Category:Ethics_and_corporate_governance]]

Revision as of 08:55, 11 May 2015

1.

In the commercial context, the framework that provides guidance on corporate strategy including assessing risk, ensures effective monitoring of management by the board of directors and makes certain the board is accountable to the company and the shareholders.


2.

Comparable frameworks in non-commercial organisations. In the non-commercial context the term 'governance' (without the 'corporate' part) is more common.


See also


Other links

Doing the right thing, Sarah Boyce, The Treasurer, May 2014

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