The Cadbury Archive at Cambridge Judge Business School consists of papers compiled and preserved by Sir Adrian Cadbury from his time as Chairman of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance.
The Committee was formed in May 1991 by the Financial Reporting Council, the London Stock Exchange and a group of accountancy professionals and its role was to consider the UK's corporate governance system.
The Cadbury Archive is a part of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN).
The archive includes:
- Notes from meetings with those people who gave evidence to the Committee
- Notes for speeches and articles about the Committee's work
- Responses to the draft report
- Material (agendas, minutes and research etc) relating to the Committee's activities following the publication of the Cadbury Report up until June 1995
- Corporate governance journal articles, reports and working papers dating from the 1960s through to the end of the 1990s
Background
The Cadbury Archive was launched, appropriately enough, after a speech on the theme of governance given by Sir David Walker at the Cambridge Judge Business School-CIBAM Symposium in June 2010.
View Sir David's speech as an interactive PDF
In June 2013 the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN) organised a special symposium to mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Cadbury Code. At the Symposium Sir Adrian Cadbury donated copies of all his speeches on corporate governance, to complete the Cadbury Archive.
Top 20 document subjects
- Comments on corporate governance draft report (174)
- Non-executive directors (103)
- Auditing (90)
- Financial reporting (44)
- Audit committees (40)
- Institutional investors and shareholders (39)
- Corporate governance (35)
- Executive remuneration (35)
- Code of Best Practice compliance implementation and monitoring (34)
- Internal control systems (33)
- Shareholders (29)
- Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (28)
- Code of Best Practice (24)
- Directors' responsibilities (22)
- Smaller companies (16)
- Two-tier and unitary boards (15)
- Remuneration committees (15)
- Board of directors (12)
- Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance 1994 (12)
- Successor body to Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (11)