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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
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
Corporate Failure Resulting From Poor Governance
- The ineffective board
- Examples of corporate failure: Maxwell, Polly Peck, Enron, Worldcom
- 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
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
Corporate Social Responsibility
- The pressure for corporate behaviour change
- The Legal Background of CSR
- Company directors’ obligations and CSR
- Voluntary measures
- Is CSR “Just Public Relations”?
- CSR and corporate governance links
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
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
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 Corporate social responsibility reports
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
Costs
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Certification / Credits
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- 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
Why choose LCT International?
We have trained over 2,500 delegates from almost 600 client organisations
Complimentary Heathrow transfer (one-way)
Endorsed by various organisational and subject specific accrediting bodies
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London Corporate Training (LCT)
London Corporate Training have been established in the education, consulting and training industries for two decades. They work as a training team from their head office in London and aim to ensure all of their course participants receive the highest...
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