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Asian Excellence Awards

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Rule Book

The Asian Excellence Awards are designed to recognize the achievements and excellence in management acumen, financial performance, corporate social responsibility, environmental practices and investor relations. Since its inception in 2011, we have bestowed accolades on the Best CEO, Best CFO, Best Investor Relations, Best Investor Relations Professional, Best Corporate Communications and Best Corporate Social Responsibility and Best Sustainable Asia. For our 2024 edition, we’ve picked the winners from several countries across the region, including China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. 

 

These honours are designed to inspire excellence among the different layers in corporate hierarchy, especially now that Asia continued to gain further recognition in the global arena as a favoured investment destination in view of its robust economic growth. 

 

Indeed, Asia continued to attract capital that provided the region with a wall of liquidity, but this inflow comes with the increasing scrutiny from the global investors who are looking for avenues to park their money. They are looking for the best investment opportunities, for the highest yields for their capital, yet they are doing so with well-rounded parameters which include corporate governance.

Best CEO

The board of directors represents the shareholders in managing the affairs of the company. The directors recognize their responsibilities to boost shareholder’s value and to conduct themselves in accordance with the highest standards of corporate governance.

 

But it is the CEO – he/she could be the chairman/chairperson, president and managing director depending on the company designation – who is responsible for driving the overall management and growth of the company. In many ways, he/she is the face of the company among the investors, shareholders and all the stakeholders. So much is riding on his/her capability, management skill and reputation to lead the company. He/she provides leadership to the board, ensuring that the board works effectively and discharges their responsibilities to the best of their abilities.

Best CFO

The financial and economic crises that stoke the global economy every now and then call for astute management of the company’s finances. The chief financial officer (CFO) is a company's financial leader and it is often his/her mandate to figure out the company’s funding requirements. He/she can decide whether a transaction can be consummated. This calls for an accurate assessment of the prevailing market environment to proceed and tap the capital markets for funds. He/she decides which funding avenue to tap, which funding source will offer the company the most competitive pricing and how the company can broaden its investor base by diversifying its funding sources.

 

The CFO should be able to pinpoint the window of opportunity as the capital markets open and shut very quickly during volatile market environment. His/her financial repertoire should include liability management in order to boost the company’s financial structure and manage its debt maturity profile. His/her functions, though, should not be limited to capital markets activity and in many instances also includes finance and treasury operations, business planning and strategic procurement, among others.

 

The award for Best CFO goes to the candidate that leads his/her company into the capital markets both in good times and in bad times. In other words, he/she steadies the ship, so to speak, in whatever market backdrop at any point in time.

Best Investor Relations

A company should maintain an open and transparent communications with its investors in order to build and enhance investor confidence. Through investor communication, the company should address the various information requirements by the general investing public in order to make an informed investment decision. The investor relations team should continually provide quality and timely information, both operational and financial, to enable the investing community to better understand the company’s business activities.

 

The award for Best Investor Relations team is given to a company that is committed to the highest standards of disclosure, transparency and fairness in disseminating information. Apart from the regular periodic reports submitted to the regulatory authorities, the team should take extra efforts to boost their communications with all the stakeholders.

Best Corporate Communications

This award goes to the best public relations team that helps their company achieve their goals in communicating with their investors, media and other stakeholders and the community they operate in. It is an important part of corporation to dessiminate the timely and transparent flow of information and disclosure between the company and their stakeholders, media and the community. The Corporate Communications team is an integral part of the corporation image building and providing the highest standard of adequate, accurate and efficient information out in the market arena.

Best Corporate Social Responsibility

A company undertakes its business in a manner that places emphasis on the social and environmental impact on the community where it operates. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a commitment to developing and implementing policies that adopt responsible policies and practices into the daily operations of the business.

 

One of the early drivers of CSR is philanthropy, making company contributions to worthwhile causes. For instance, a company would set up a foundation into which it would allocate resources for charity works. But CSR has since evolve and supplanted by broader and wider commitments to several aspirations, including the protection and improvement of the lives of the employees, commitment to education and training, and improvement in health care services.

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