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<strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Governance</strong> - <strong>Accounting</strong> <strong>Theory</strong><br />

Subtopic: Independent directors<br />

Report title: ​Independent directors and ‘skin in the game’.<br />

Your task: (Article ​ Critique)<br />

Identify and apply any of the theories covered in<br />

<strong>Accounting</strong> <strong>Theory</strong> that you believe would assist a reader to understand the issues<br />

being discussed in the three articles below.<br />

The 3 articles<br />

1. (Academic article) MANDATED DIVORCE: COMPANY BOARDS,<br />

‘INDEPENDENCE’ AND PERFORMANCE: ​ ​POLICY • Vol. 32 No. 2 • Winter 2016, pp.3-9,<br />

< https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2016/06/32-2-swan-peter.pdf>.<br />

2. (Magazine) ‘Skin in the game,’ ​Company ​ Directors Magazine. May 2016, pp.37-9 <<br />

http://www.companydirectors.com.au/director-resource-centre/publications/companydirector-magazine/2016-back-editions/may/skin-in-the-game<br />

>.


3. (Newspaper) Tue Jun 28, 2016 Tesla investor group wants more independent<br />

board, cites Musk ties. ,<br />

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-solarcity-m-a-tesla-idUSKCN0ZE2ZL<br />

Research in order to find secondary sources on matters where a relevance to<br />

theoretical issue of accounting theory can be demonstrated<br />

1. 1. Identify the theoretical issue of accounting theory that relates with<br />

the most salience (relevance) to the contents of your selected articles.<br />

2. 2. Provide examples of agreements, disagreements or coverage<br />

disparities between the contents of the articles and the contents of the<br />

chosen accounting theory topic Readings and textbook. To do this, you<br />

need to compare the articles' content with the content of the various<br />

resources used in accounting theory and in that comparison, you should<br />

identify agreements (similarities), disagreements (differences) and<br />

disparities (where one source mentions something and the other does<br />

not).<br />

3. 3. Critique the articles. To do this you should at least:<br />

4. 4. Assess the significance of agreements, disagreements or disparities<br />

identified in the previous section.<br />

5. 5. Assess whether you are in a position to form an opinion on the<br />

accuracy of the content of the articles (for example, are sources of<br />

information revealed in the articles? Or is the author in a position to be<br />

trusted in respect to this topic?)<br />

6. 6. Question if the articles’ coverage of the issues has been balanced and<br />

comprehensive enough to present useful information (more than a single<br />

perspective identified and presented)


7. 7. Evaluate the worth of the articles to a decision maker who must<br />

consider similar issues in their respective roles (e.g. an investor seeking<br />

to evaluate investment opportunities; a manager wanting to make a<br />

resource allocation decision; a citizen wishing to exercise her civic rights;<br />

etc).<br />

8. 8. Reference List (Harvard Referencing)with in text reference

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