Corporate Governance – What really matters?

This course is designed to learn the participant that one of the key lessons that firms have appreciated as a consequence of the recent crisis is the need to adopt an integrated approach to effective management linking all risk areas including governance and compliance with strategy and performance management, poor standards of risk management including governance and compliance risk have led to extensive criticism in many sectors and to catastrophic problems and failure of some of the largest and best-known businesses. In the aftermath of such issues, both market and stakeholder expectations have increased significantly, increasing the responsibilities placed on senior management. Developing a sound understanding of corporate governance best practice and comparing this with the approach adopted within your firm is a challenging but essential undertaking. There is a clear challenge in building consistent governance frameworks that also add value to your organization. This will be addressed in this course, explaining the main issues and identifying the approaches to be adopted