This culture, we consider, permeated from the top throughout the organisation and speaks volumes about the lack of effective corporate governance at News Corporation and News International.

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Corporation sole is a title holding device not a governance structure.

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Based in Los Angeles, Audit Integrity evaluates hundreds of financial items on each corporation and scores companies in three key topics: accounting and governance, financial condition and earnings quality.

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Today only a handful of big firms have the sort of board that seems hand-picked to be loyal to the boss, chief among them being News Corporation, says Paul Hodgson of GMI, a corporate-governance ratings firm.

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With a rigorous set of lending and investing procedures in place and aggressively monitored at the highest levels of the corporation, it is setting a gold-standard for good governance and financial responsibility that could - if adopted throughout its industry and others - deny our enemies much of the access to funding they rely upon today and, thereby, transform this war.

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Dunn developed an interest in corporate governance, a term that technically refers to all aspects of running a corporation but in recent years has come to emphasize issues of fairness, transparency, and accountability.

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