Course Objectives
Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies and Best Practices - Virtual Learning
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- List the principals of corporate governance
- Analyze corporate governance structure
- Assess the performance of the board of directors
- Advise on corporate governance in the organization
- Apply corporate governance best practices
Target Audience
Board members, chief financial officers, senior management, directors, finance managers, financial controllers, accounting and finance personnel, legal counsel, corporate legal advisors, corporate secretaries, lawyers, external and internal auditors, HR managers, and department heads.
Target Competencies
- Understanding board of directors’ structure
- Analyzing board committees
- Assessing board efficiencies
- Defending shareholder rights
- Enhancing the control environment
- Identifying stakeholders’ rights
Course Outline
- Overview of Corporate Governance (CG)
- Definition of Corporate Governance
- Corporate Governance Principles
- Corporate governance benefits
- Ethics
- Code of Conduct
- Stakeholders in corporate governance
- Stakeholders
- Shareholders rights
- Directors’ Duties and Rights
- Corporate governance failures
- The efficient board
- The board and its committees
- Independence of the board
- Selection, Remuneration and Evaluation of the Board
- Nomination committee
- Remuneration committee
- Audit committee
- Communicating and Implementing Corporate Governance
- Corporate governance best practices
- International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)
- OECD corporate governance principles
- AICPA