Advanced Corporate Governance

Course Information:

Venue:	Duration:	Date:	Price:
Online	30 hours	Flexi-date	£3,750.00
In-House	Agreed with client	Flexible	POA
London	10 days	8 January 2024	£7,250
London	10 days	1 April 2024	£7,250
London	10 days	1 July 2024	£7,250
London	10 days	30 September 2024	£7,250

If you are unable to attend this course on the dates above, please contact us to discuss alternative options.
Please note that prices shown above are exclusive of VAT (20%).

Who should attend?

Company Executive and Non- Executive Directors
Shareholder representatives
Pension and Investment Fund Managers
Public officials in a regulatory, supervisory or compliance functions
Company Secretaries of public companies
Executives involved in strategic and operational functions, including finance, corporate strategy, human resources, and government affairs
Senior managers involved in setting up corporate governance initiatives
Corporate lawyers who wish to improve their understanding of new company law developments concerning corporate responsibility
Investor Relations managers responsible for their organisation’s dealings with the Finance community

Outcomes

Understand the duties of company directors
Evaluate how company boards organise themselves
Explain the underlying issues which led to the creation of corporate governance as a discipline
Demonstrate knowledge of the checks and balance that apply to the boards of listed companies
Understand the framework of governance rules that has been created by the UK Corporate Governance Code
Appreciate the trends in corporate governance from around the world
Understand the structure and function of a Board, and Board committees, such as those concerning Remuneration and Audit

COURSE TOPICS:

What is Corporate Governance?

Essential structures of corporate governance
Principle functions and responsibilities of the Board
Setting the company strategic direction
Establishing corporate values
Holding the executives to account
Maintaining the corporate reputation

Strategic Risk Management

Identifying, Prioritising and Managing risks
Probability & Impact analysis
Risk tolerance and other management approaches
Tools to apply to enterprise risks
Board approaches to strategic risk

Company Directors and Company Boards

Duties of a Director
Promoting the success of the company
Role of the chairman
Executive and Non-executive directors
Making a difference using non-executive directors

Board Committees

Role of Board committees
Workings of the Nomination, Remuneration and Audit Committees
Other board committees
Holding Board committees to account
Your responsibilities as a NED committee member

Corporate Failure Resulting from Poor Governance

The ineffective board
Examples of corporate failure: Maxwell, Polly Peck, Enron
Analysis of the banking crisis as a failure of governance
Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory responses to corporate governance failure
Lessons learned from corporate failures

Case Studies in Comparative Corporate Governance: BP and News Corporation

Composition of the boards
The balance of Executive directors to NEDs
Compliance with corporate governance standards
Annual corporate governance statements
Unpicking the Environmental, Social and Governance reports

Protecting shareholders and other stakeholders

The UK Corporate Governance Code
The Comply or Explain rule
How to protect the shareholder?
Communicating with the shareholder
A Legal framework for corporate governance

International Corporate Governance Approaches

US and UK corporate governance compared
Corporate governance in developing countries – case study of Nigeria’s codes
Unitary and Dual Board systems
The supervisory board in Germany

Environmental, Social and Governance

The pressure for corporate behaviour change
The Legal Background of ESG
Company directors’ obligations and ESG
Voluntary measures
Is ESG “Just Public Relations”?
ESG and corporate governance links