Improving Business Practice (IBP), the organisation managing the Ghana Business Code (GHBC) has developed an implementation manual with the aim of inspiring Ghanaian enterprises to comply with the code...So far, 120 companies have signed on...expressing their commitment to best business practices according to international standards...Manager of Improving Business Practice, Mr. John Oduro, noted that "although membership sign on is encouraging, there is the need to reach even a greater number of companies and the public, stressing...the need for businesses to operate by a set of standards that will help create trust between [them and their] stakeholders"...The Ghana Business Code is...based...on the universal principles referred to in the United Nations [Global] Compact...[refers to Unilever, Accra Breweries, Bits & Pieces, Tema]