Corporate Governance Programme elearning
Professional Development
Overview
The online Corporate Governance Programme has been designed for financial and professional services employees to develop a deeper understanding of the challenges presented in ensuring effective corporate governance.
The elearning programme examines the key challenges facing boards and companies in meeting the corporate governance standards required in today's challenging environment. It is vitally important that directors, non-executive directors and others tasked with running effective and compliant entities understand the range of challenges they face and how to deal with them.
Who is it for?
Those working in financial and professional services in a senior capacity – Non-Executive Directors, Executive Directors, Senior Managers, Senior Governance Professionals, Company Secretaries – as well as those looking to build a better appreciation of the demands placed on directors and boards in the dispatch of their legal, contractual and fiduciary duties.
What will students get from attending?
A better understanding and appreciation of the challenges facing directors and boards, as well as beginning to develop strategies for implementing more effective corporate governance structures.
Purchase licences
GBP 495 – introductory price until 30 June 2023 per licence
Programme Content
Sessions can be booked individually as required or as a complete programme.
Introduction To Corporate Governance
View & Book »- Historical context to corporate governance
- The relevance of corporate governance
- Where do you fit in with corporate governance?
- Appraising why companies fail
Corporate Governance Principles
View & Book »- What do we mean by corporate governance?
- What constitutes corporate governance and why it’s important
- Understand the problems of separation of ownership and control
- Understand the different theoretical aspects of corporate governance
- Appreciate the historical evolution of corporate governance
Corporate Governance – Rules Or Regulations?
View & Book »- The evolution of corporate governance since 1992
- Differences of approach to corporate governance – rules, regulations or hybrid?
- An appreciation of the key set of codes and accompanying legislation
Role of the Board
View & Book »- The Channel Islands’ approach to regulation and corporate governance
- 6 Board role theories
- 4 Board role applications and practices
- What the UK governance code says about board committees
Corporate Reporting, Remuneration and External Audit
View & Book »- What is now expected from corporate reporting
- The role of the auditor in corporate governance
- Defining the Expectation Gap
- Detailed function of audit committees – where they get it right and where it can go wrong
Risk Management, Internal Controls and Relationships with Stakeholders
View & Book »- The distinction between internal control and internal audit
- Some global perspectives of how companies achieve good internal control
- Identifying assessing and managing risk from a board’s perspective
- The importance of stakeholder engagement as part of corporate governance
Non-Financial Reporting - CSR and Strategic Oversight of ESG
View & Book »- CSR v ESG
- How ESG is now at the heart of corporate governance
- The growing importance of a company’s ESG score
- But sometimes companies can get ESG reporting wrong and be accused of greenwashing
Governance Outlook and Recapitulation
View & Book »- A look at some future trends for corporate governance
- In particular cybersecurity and ransomware
- The effect of the UK Bribery Act on corporate governance
- A scenario of a difficult but pressing board matter and how to deal with it
Bonus interview if you book the full programme
Expert video interview with
Lord Gus O'Donnell
Gus spent four years in academia before joining the Civil Service as an economist in the Treasury in the late 1970s. He first came to public prominence as British Prime Minister John Major’s press secretary in the early 1990s. Later that decade Gus served as the UK’s executive Director to both the IMF and World Bank. In the new millennium he became the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and then in 2005 he became the Cabinet Secretary- the head of the British Civil Service - where he served three Prime Ministers, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron. He was instrumental in brokering the first Coalition Government since the second world war following the hung parliament in the election of 2010. After retiring as Cabinet Secretary in 2011, he’s held many high-level posts including being the President of the Council for Fiscal Studies, a non-executive Director of Brookfield Asset Management, as well as being the Chairman of Frontier Economics, one of Europe’s largest economic consultancies. Gus has near unapparelled experience of governmental, corporate and academic life and he articulates his experiences of governance in these very different sectors.
Programme modules feature four interviews with industry experts
Sir James Wates CBE
Led the development of corporate governance framework for large private companies, now known as the Wates PrinciplesJohn Whybrow
Experienced executive and non-executive director of several listed companies. Former Chair of FTSE 100 companyNigel Moss
Experienced company secretary specialising in private equity as well as having considerable involvement with ESGAlan Roberts
A very experienced insolvency practitioner who has operated in the global arena. Originally a Chartered Accountant, Alan is a Director of Grant Thornton, based in the Channel Islands