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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.
Letter suggests including a public relations representative on the Committee.
Comprises notes on terms of reference for the Committee and what the Committee should actually consider.
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.
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.
16. Letter from Mrs SE Brown, DTI, 1 October 1991
Administrative letter.
Sets the background to interest by the Institute.
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.
19. Handwritten [notes for] CBI President's reception, 12 November 1991
Outlining the Committee's remit and work.
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.
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.
About the publication of the final report or separate code and involvement of commercial publishers.
Document concentrates on the issues raised in consultation.
The memo mentions *draft* report but date suggests distribution of final report. It should go to all listed companies, investment trusts and USM listed companies. Also included is a half page of Sir Adrian's handwritten notes concentrating on aspects of the role and responsibilities of boards.
28. Handover notes (mostly handwritten), December 1992, from Nigel Peace to Gina Cole.
The notes cover the 'live' administrative issues. Note about contract with Gee for publishing the final report.
29. Correspondence , December 1992, praising the work of the Committee and its final report.
Includes congratulatory letters from: Accounting Standards Board, CBI and press release, press release from Institute of Directors, press release from CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and Coats Viyella. Also includes acknowledgement from Department of Trade and Industy about staff.
Both letters offer congratulations on the final report.
The main item is the press conference for the final report but is usefully set beside the notes for the launch of the draft report.
32. Press conference Tuesday 1 December 1992, briefing notes.
Notes to enable consistent answers to be given to questions from the press.
33. Letter, dated 3 December [1992], from Viscount Watkinson.
Sent after the launch of the final report.
34. Letter from Jonathan Charkham, 21 January 1993 and print-out from a newspaper database.
Letter discusses publication (of what?)
Consists of the agenda and supporting papers on monitoring the Committee's recommendations and the Code of Best Practice. Guidance to companies on interpretation of the report and code of best practice. The file also includes the agenda and supporting papers for sub-committee meeting held on 31 March 1993 and supporting papers, Terms of Reference, factors to consider when monitoring compliance, summaries of organisations known to have the capability to monitor compliance with the code and extracts from their work.
Includes the agenda for the meeting and supporting papers on directors' pension contributions, non-executive directors contracts, going concern and financial reporting and the Stock Exchange implementation of the Cadbury Code. Also included is note of the key points arising from a meeting between Martin Scicluna, Martyn Jones and Sir Adrian Cadbury on 22 April 1993.
The file also includes a copy of CAD-01327. It seems the documents for the 9 September meeting were sent out with copies of Coopers & Lybrarnd report (CAD-01327), the Auditing Practices Board drafts 'Disclosure relating to corporate governance & interim financial, the Working Party on Internal Control document on guidance for directors information and accompanying letter.
38. Minutes of Committee meeting held on 9 September 1993.
Matters reported include extending the application of the Code to large private companies, and possible extension to smaller companies, progress of monitoring sub-committee and their work, rolling contracts, terminology for directors.
In addition to the supporting doucments for the meeting it contains the minutes of the meeting.
40. Briefing for Sir Adrian Cadbury - informal press briefings, Thursday 17 February 1994.
The document covers the number of copies distributed, other UK organisations and jurisdictions interested in the report, progress on monitoring the Code's implementation, going concern and internal controls.
Contains list of attendees, Committee membership, (missing a letter regarding the role of the Committee) press cuttings, extracts from ICAS Working Party recommendations on internal control and examples of corporate governance statements.
42. Minutes of the Committee meeting held on Wednesday 23 February 1994 and covering memo.
The minutes deal with APB exposure drafts, guidance on going concerns and internal controls, compliance and controlling shareholders. The accompanying note list items also enclosed (but missing from the collection).
43. Sir Adrian Cadbury, Committee meeting 19 May 1994.
The file includes the text of Sir Owen Green's Pall Mall Lecture, statistics from the ABI on compliance, agenda and papers on independent boards, monitoring compliance and various papers on internal control.
44. Minutes of the [Committee] meeting on 10 May 1995.
Accompanying note says no further Committee meetings will be held. Minutes indicate new Committee with 12 members and a Chairman. The Committee also considered proposed changes to Stock Exchange Listing Rules and compliance with the Code.
Contains a summary of key points of the Labour Party to tackle short-termism and lack of competitiveness. Also includes the extract: Designing new corporate structures.
46. Minutes of the [Committee] meeting held on Wednesday 14 September 1994.
Minuted items: internal control (ref Paul Rutteman), going concern, Labour Party document (See CAD-02281) and monitoring compliance with the Code.
Includes full details of membership and sponsorship to date, in addition to listing issues for the successor body and the work of the sub-committee monitoring compliance.
Includes full text of paper, Self regulation and the financial aspects of corporate governance.
Sir Adrian states wishes to retire as Chairman and discusses membership, sponsorship and possible issues for the successor body. Includes FRC(94)49.
50. Fax to Sir Adrian Cadbury from Gina [Cole], 3 November 1994.
Preliminary to the meeting of the Financial Reporting Council which will discuss a successor body to the CFACG.