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OBU RESEARCH ANALYSIS PROJECT

TOPIC 17: The quality of the corporate governance within an organization and the impact on an organization’s key stakeholders.

STUDENT NAME: ARSLAN AHMED TARIQ.

ACCA REGISTRATION NUMBER: 2096314

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|SNO |Description |Page Number |
| |INTRODUCTION, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES |3 - 6 |
| |INFORMATION GATHERING |7 – 11 |
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The Post Office Act of 1969 led to the GPO becoming a public corporation. British Telecom was formed in 1980, and became independent of the Post Office in 1981. British Telecom was privatized in 1984, with more than 50 per cent of its shares sold to investors. The Government sold its remaining stake in further share sales in 1991 and 1993.

BT has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalization of approximately £15 billion as of 23 December 2011, the 27th-largest of any company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group [online]

BT is one of the world’s leading communications services companies, serving the needs of customers in the UK and in more than 170 countries worldwide. Our main activities are the provision of fixed-line services, broadband, mobile and TV products and services as well as networked IT services.

In the UK we are a leading communications services provider, selling products and services to consumers, small and medium sized enterprises and the public sector. We also sell wholesale products and services to communications providers in the UK and around the world. Globally, we supply managed networked IT services to multinational corporations, domestic businesses and national and local