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CPA’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending: A Practical Guide for Management

This post summarizes the Center for Political Accountability’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending, which provides best practices for implementing the CPA-Zicklin Model Code. The Model Code identifies a company’s broader societal and democracy obligations and responsibilities that should govern its political spending decisions. This new Guide spells out what concrete steps and actions management should follow as it makes spending decisions and evaluates the accompanying risks. 

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This seminal report from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, addresses the question of whether institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies are legally permitted to integrate environmental, social and governance issues into their investment decision-making and ownership practices. The study describes the legal framework for institutions in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK and the US.

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ReportAccountAbility, UN Global Compact

This guide provides a framework for companies and NGO's to use to determine whether their lobbying practices are responsible.

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VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce
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ArticleMIT Sloan

Presents a framework for when companies should present forceful or tempered political positions based on their publicly stated values and materiality.

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