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Corporate Governance
Course DescriptionGood corporate governance enhances the firm’s reputation and makes it much more attractive to its investors, suppliers and customers as well as helps to prevent corporate scandals, fraud, and potential civil and criminal liability in an organization. This practical 2 day course provides participants with an overview of the regulation and principles behind good corporate governance framework. You will explore the relationship between management, finance, law and ethics and learn to effectively administer corporate relations and to contribute to corporate performance at a senior level within your organisation.
The programme includes many case studies from the GCC region and worldwide, exploring the best current practices and standards. |
What Will You LearnThe aim of this program is to provide participants with:
This course will provide participants with a sound grounding in the key components of corporate governance which will in turn enhance their ability to operate at senior levels in organizations.
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Main Topics Covered During This Training
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Who Should AttendThe course is suitable for all staff in management & supervisory positions, irrespective of their specific job responsibilities. Board members, senior managers, the managers responsible for:
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Group discounts: 5% for a booking of 2 and 10% for a booking of 3. Delegates have to be from the same company and register at the same time in order to claim the discount.
Corporate Governance - A 2 Day Programme
Day 1
- Definition
- Separation of management and control
- Agency theory and its problems
- Manager and shareholder risk and its diversification
- Governance mechanisms
- CEO pay and performance
- Managerial defence tactics
- The UK Combined Code on Corporate Governance
- OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
- Core competencies of company directors
- What all directors need to know
- Checking the effectiveness of company boards
- Directors and the global financial crisis
- “Negative” and “Positive” approaches
- The family business
- Relationships between the Family
- Shareholders
- Directors and Management
- Residual Claimant Theory
- The Bank Board
- The Board’s role and responsibility
- The Unique dimensions of bank governance
- Bank board directors and governance
- Who are independent directors
- Choosing independent directors
- The Role and responsibilities of the independent director
- What the “average” independent director looks like
- How different jurisdictions see independent directors? We examine the US (Sabanes Oxley and the NYSE rules) and the UK (Companies Act), Corporate Social Responsibility and independent directors
- Lessons from the financial crisis
- Strengthening capital markets through corporate governance
- The multinational enterprise
- Global financial management
- The Goal of management
- Shareholder wealth maximization
- Corporate wealth maximization
- Failures in corporate governance
- Regulation of corporate governance
- Governance, rights and the future
- What IT governance is all about
- Why target IT? IT Governance defined, standards & frameworks
- Key issues: governance, risk, law, security, internal and external threats, physical security, the characteristic of IT governance
- Standards - ISO/IEC 38500:20085
Richard Barr
Richard holds a B.S. in International Business Administration from San Jose State University in California. His professional experience spans 19 years, 5 of which were spent with Wells Fargo Bank. Another 5 were spent honing his global banking skills, when Richard was involved with International Trade Finance, Real Time Gross Settlement and Cross Border Banking. The past 9 years have been in the private and high-tech sectors providing high-level consulting services, business analysis, project management and training to a wide range of banking clientele across the globe.
He has spent extensive time servicing a diversity of “financial institutional” clients, in South Africa, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Netherlands, Greece, Bermuda, Malawi, United Kingdom and across North America. Clients include AIB Bank, Eurobank, ABSA Bank, CitiBank, Swedbank, INDEbank, IBM, Montran and Fundtech, as well as many others.
Richard has also filled the role of advisor to central banks on payment systems and technical payments issues. Furthermore, key staff from the Bank of England, South African Reserve Bank, Central Bank of Ireland and Bank of Portugal who have attended training sessions presented by Richard.
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