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Report question:

Report Question Corporate governance, how
a company is run, is critically important for companies to consider due to
numerous high-profile corporate failures. As a result, companies provide a
corporate governance statement as a way to communicate their governance
practices and promote their ethics credentials to interested parties, such as
shareholders. This statement is often incorporated into the company’s annual report.
To assist with the development of clear and ethical corporate governance
statements, the ASX Corporate Governance Council has developed a set of
principles and recommendations to guide companies. Explain what corporate
governance is and its relationship to business ethics. Select two principles
from the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s Corporate Governance Principles and
Recommendations (3rd Edition) and explain how each principle you select relates
to business ethics. Evaluate how effectively SCENTRE GROUP’s
corporate governance statement communicates information in relation to the
principles you selected.

* If SCENTRE GROUP does not have a 2016
Annual Report/Annual Review/Shareholder Review, you can use the 2015 equivalent
printed document.

Compulsory
Reading:

1.Corporate
Governance Principles and Recommendations 3rd Edition (ASX Corporate Governance
Council 2014).

2.‘Corporate
Governance and Business Ethics’ (Felo 2013)

3.‘Untangling
the Confusion Over Organizational Ethics’ (Liautaud 2013)

4. ‘The
right way to given?'(Dando 2013).

5.Relevance
of Business Ethics in Corporate Governance

Requirements:

Use the
5 texts from above reading lists and you will need to
use Scentre group’s annual report

Therefore,
you need to use a minimum of six (6) sources in total.

Use 11
or 12 point Arial, Verdana, or Calibri font

Use 1.5 spacing and at least 3cm page
margins

Length:
1000-1500 words

Format:
Academic report format

Grading Criteria

Content – Development of the
answer 20%

All information is relevant to the
question and comprehensively explained

Content-Selection and
integration of sources 20%

All supporting evidence is critically
selected and synthesized

Organisation – Cohesive report
format 10%

Highly creative organisation using report
structure, skilfully manages cohesion throughout the report

Organisation – Paragraph
structure 10%

Highly sophisticated and cohesive paragraph
structure

Language – Paraphrasing 10%

Paraphrases the ideas in the source text
concisely and accurately

Language – Vocabulary and
expression 15%

Presents ideas using highly sophisticated,
accurate and original academic language

Mechanics – Referencing 10%

Accurate referencing throughout the answer

Mechanics – Layout and
presentation 5%

Accurate and professional layout and
presentation throughout the report