Position statement
Effective corporate governance is an imperative for every publicly traded company. IBM has a long-standing commitment to ethics, integrity and management oversight. The US and Europe have regulatory requirements such as those prescribed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the European Green Paper on corporate governance. In the US, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission watch over publicly-traded companies to ensure compliance with these requirements. The European Commission plans to issue a draft Directive on corporate governance within the next months. Governmental Programs partner with IBM Legal and Treasury worldwide to ensure that IBM remains in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. We also work to address new policy issues that are important to our business model.
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- Consultation on future priorities for the Action Plan on modernising company law and enhancing corporate governance in the European Union (107KB)
- Basel II: CEBS consultation on Standards on Outsourcing (201KB)
- EU Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (160KB)
- EU Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base-International aspects (233KB)
- ARC postponement transparency (28KB)
- ARC postponement prospectus (28KB)
- Principles of Corporate Governance (207KB)
- European Commission White Paper on Financial Services (88KB)
- Business Roundtable on Corporate Governance, 2005 (129KB)
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2010 IBM Corporate Responsibility Report
Learn how our business and citizenship strategies have merged in the 2010 IBM Corporate Responsibility Report.