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Corporate Governance

This course sets out to cut a swathe through the huge corporate governance jungle, so that participants can consider in some depth the essentials and update with the latest developments.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. To explain the responsibilities of the board and others for direction and oversight
2. To cover latest developments in corporate governance
3. To provide practical advice on best board practice
4. To give guidance on performing effectively as executive or non-executive directors
5. To show how corporate governance can both go badly wrong and also succeed well
6. To demonstrate whether and how good corporate governance ‘pays off’

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.

PROGRAMME

• What do we mean by corporate governance?
• The revised 2006/07 Combined Code – what it says and its new challenges
• 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

SPEAKER

Steve Giles MA (Oxon), ACA
Partner, Highview Consultants

22 April 2008

£560 + VAT

1 day course 09.30-17.00

Corporate Governance