Corporate governance: Practical insights

About the course

Corporate governance procedures help a business become more effective in value creation while reducing both risk and the potential for corruption, fraud, mismanagement and failure.

If you are not trained in law, you may be surprised by the number of rules, regulations and laws you may break while operating a business, without even knowing it! A good corporate governance programme can boost your competencies, ensure discharge of fiduciary duties of directors, including managing conflicts of interests as well as navigating risksand opportunities, including ensuring a sustainable strategy. Organisations following a set of good corporate governance principles and best practices will tend to act in the best interest of the organisation and its stakeholders, building trust reputation and legitimacy, as well as enjoying greater sustainable value creation.

This course will cover the latest principles and best practices of corporate governance including King V and CRISA 2 and responsibilities of directors and institutional investors, discussing key trends as well as using relevant case studies in a group discussion format.

Course content

The following topics will be dealt with during the course:

• An overview of corporate governance
• International corporate governance trends
• The evolution of corporate governance in South Africa
• Understanding ESG and sustainability
• A high-level review of King V including ethical and effective leadership
• Regulation and legal entities
• Directors' and prescribed officers' including role and responsibilities and business judgement rule
• Board committees including Audit/ Risk/ Social & Ethics/ Remuneration/ Nomination
• Governance of strategy
• Role of the Company Secretary
• Risk governance and risk management
• Assurance
• Data, information and technology governance
• Integrated reporting/transparency and disclosure
• Remuneration governance
• Institutional shareholders’ critical role including a high-level overview of CRISA 2

Various case studies will be utilised in a group discussion format.

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More information

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