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Corporate Governance
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COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course cuts a swathe through the huge corporate governance jungle, so that participants can consider in some depth the essentials and update with the latest developments.


The course is designed to:



  • Explain the responsibilities of the board and others for direction and oversight

  • Cover latest developments in corporate governance

  • Provide practical advice on best board practice

  • Give guidance on performing effectively as executive or non-executive directors

  • Show how corporate governance can both go badly wrong and also succeed well

  • Demonstrate whether and how good corporate governance ''pays off''


COURSE CONTENT


  • What do we mean by corporate governance?

  • The revised 2008 Combined Code - what it says and its new challenges

  • Corporate governance in the 2006 Companies Act

  • The value of the board

  • What makes a board effective?

  • The effective director

  • Independent directors

  • The board''s responsibility for policy, direction and strategy

  • Latest advice on audit committees

  • Corporate governance reports, including reporting on internal control

  • The Turnbull guidance and the Turnbull Review effective 2006

  • COSO on Enterprise Risk Management

  • International developments

  • New legislation on senior accounting officer


WHO SHOULD ATTEND


The course will be of interest to company chairmen, executive and non-executive directors, chairs of audit and other board committees, company secretaries, directors of internal audit, finance directors, external auditors and lawyers specialising in corporate governance.


"Clear, succinct delivery of a complex subject. Related well to business, particularly how it applies and when."


Would you like this course run in-house? Call us on 0207 566 8207 to find out more


Andrew Chambers Twice mentioned in House of Lords’ debates as an authority on corporate governance and internal auditing and by The Times as ‘a worldwide authority on corporate governance’, in 2008 Andrew received The Institute of Internal Auditors’ (UK) Distinguished Service Award. Just appointed Special Advisor to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee for their Inquiry into market concentration of the auditing profession. Andrew's Corporate Governance Handbook (4th ed., 2008, Tottel, ISBN 978-1-84766-053-4), Internal Auditor’s Handbook (2nd ed., 2009, ISBN 9781405735674) and The Operational Auditing Handbook - Auditing Business & I.T. Processes (2nd ed., 2010, Wiley, ISBN 0470744766) are standard guides. Andrew has been a non-executive director of a FTSE250 financial institution, a well known mutual, small software companies, an NHS acute hospital trust and a well known charity – usually having chaired their audit committees. He was Dean of what is now the leading Cass Business School wh
Fees (ex VAT)

Member Fee £315.00

Non Member Fee £575.00
Locations & Dates
09/10/2012 - London (09:30 am - 05:00 pm)   Speaker & Venue Details BOOK >>