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4. What is the business structure utilised by Rio Tinto and what are its main features? How does the principle of separate legal existence apply to prevent the directors, employees and shareholders of Rio Tinto from being personally liable to the organisation's stakeholders for the type of conduct engaged in? (500-600 words) (9 marks) (Question requires a review of the content from Module 11 - Business Structures)/n CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CASE STUDIES VOLUME SEVEN Edited by Mak Yuen Teen CPA AUSTRALIA Corporate Governance Case Studies Volume seven Mak Yuen Teen, PhD, FCPA (Aust.) Editor First published October 2018 Copyright ©2018 Mak Yuen Teen and CPA Australia All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except for inclusion of brief quotations in a review. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, CPA Australia Ltd. Please contact CPA Australia or Professor Mak Yuen Teen for permission of use of any case studies in this publication. Corporate Governance Case Studies Volume Seven Editor Editor's email Published by : Mak Yuen Teen, PhD, FCPA (Aust.) bizmakyt@nus.edu.sg : CPA Australia Ltd 1 Raffles Place #31-01 One Raffles Place Singapore 048616 Website : cpaaustralia.com.au Email :sg@cpaaustralia.com.au ISBN : 978-981-11-8936-4 Contents Foreword Preface Singapore Cases Is Datapulse Flatlining? Fat Leonard: The Elephant In The U.S. Navy's Room…...... A Good Deal? Privatisation Of Global Logistic Properties The Diagnosis Of Healthway.. 1 42 57 71 International Healthway Corporation: Rising From The Dead 86 Keppel Corporation: Offshore And Off-Course…....... .101 Next Stop For SMRT. .131 Swissco Holdings: The Struggle To Stay Afloat .... 145 Trekking In The Wrong Direction 163 Yuuzoo Corporation: A Uniquely Singapore Listing? ……………….. 186 Asia-Pacific Cases Felda Ventures Into The Unknown ......... Infosys Limited: Murthy's Law. Real (Kobe) Steel, Fake Results. Living On The Razer's Edge....... Can It "Trive" Again? ...... .220 .235 253 .267 .280 III = Global Finding The Whistle At Barclays 300 Bell Pottinger: A Deal With The Devil..... 312 BT Group: The Italian Job 330 Deutsche Bank: A Russian Affair.. 344 Equifax Discredited.... 359 Rio Tinto: A Canary In The Coal Mine ..... 375 Rolls-Royce: Turbulence Ahead 387 Broken Furniture: The Collapse Of Steinhoff………………………….. .. 405 Tesla Motors: Full Speed Ahead.......... 422 A Rough Uber Ride The Krafty Takeover Of Unilever 443 456 IV

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