Assume that you are currently working at one of the top investment banks in the UK. You are required to choose a non-financial company listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) FTSE All-Share index that has paid annual cash dividends over the past three years. Using Yahoo Finance, annual reports and any other web resources, generate a report on your company by completing the following tasks:

Using the UK Corporate Governance Code and the company's annual reports,

1.Discuss and analyse the corporate governance of the company. Consider the following in your answer:

-How responsive is management to stockholders?

-Are there any evidence of managers serving their stockholders?

-Alternatively, are there any evidence of managers taking advantage of their positions at the expense of their stockholders?

-The composition of the board of directors.

-How many of the directors are inside directors (Employees of the firm, ex- managers)?

-Is there any information on how independent the directors in the firm are from the managers?

-Are the Chairman and CEO positions separated? If not why?

-Are there any external measures of the quality of corporate governance of your firm? (From Yahoo Finance for instance, or any other source).

-Is there any evidence that the board acts independently of management?

-Check news stories to see if there are actions that the CEO has wanted to take that the board has stopped him or her from taking or at least slowed him or her down.