Advanced Corporate Governance
Course Information:
Venue: | Duration: | Date: | Price: |
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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.
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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