When corporate governance fails

A key lesson for someone wishing to join boards is this: understand basic financial accounting.

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Many years ago, I sat on the board of a not-for-profit organisation whose lacklustre CEO had been woefully appointed to a role way above his intellectual competency.

As a member of the audit committee, we discovered that the finance manager was not following policy on a certain financial process causing several bushy board eyebrows to be raised.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.