Certified Corporate Governance Professional (Advanced)

Introduction

Corporate Governance is the highest level training in the current market demand.

This programme helps participants develop a core understanding of governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) concepts, and equips them with the skills to integrate these key areas into one capability.

This course aligns GRC activities with company objectives so as to build a robust GRC capability throughout the organisation.

Focusing on small and large discussion groups, and utilizing practical group exercises and individual activities, facilitators will help participants gain the skills necessary to review and improve their corporate governance structure, while developing techniques to assess risk management activities.

 After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Ensure organization’s growth and success
• Maintain the stakeholder’s confidence in the organization
• Enable companies to raise capital efficiently and effectively
• Lower the capital costs
• Minimize wastages, corruption and mismanagement in organizations
• Assist in brand formation and development

Who should attend?

• C- Level executives and directors of companies.
• Professionals engaged in governance, risk management and compliance, managers responsible for GRC activities

Training Methodology

Training course will utilise a variety of proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented.

This training course is an interactive mixture of lecture, discussion, activities and practice on several management skills. It provides definitions, examples, discussion and activities designed to promote skill building with interaction and discussion among participants.

Contents:

Day 1

• Corporate Governance Primer
• Corporate Governance Standards
• Corporate Governance in Emerging Countries
• Case Study – Corporate Governance Trends
• Corporate Governance in Banks
• Independent Directors
• Case Study (1)
• Corporate Governance and Capital Markets
• Case Study (2)
• Financial Goals and Corporate Governance
• Case Study (3)
• IT Governance
• Introduction to Business Information Systems
• Fundamentals of Management
• Discovering Marketing
• Organisational Behaviour OECD Principles translated into 4 traditional positions
• Board of Directors
• Remuneration
• Accountability and Audit
• Shareholders
• Key Elements of CG 

Day 2

• GRC and Principled Performance
• GRC concepts, roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, and stakeholder relations plan.
• Rights of shareholders & ownership functions
• Equitable treatment of shareholders
• Role of stakeholders in CG
• Disclosure & transparency
• Responsibilities of the board
• Golden rules of Best Corporate Governance Practices in Private and Public Sector
• Setting direction for GRC and overseeing management decision making criteria.
• Reviewing and monitoring GRC capabilities, and board oversight of them
• How did we get to this point?
• Why is governance important?
• General definitions including the Standards definition
• Value of corporate governance, how it translates to share price for public companies and public confidence at non-public entities
• Examples of impact of poor governance on public and non-public entities 

Day 3

• Organisation Economic Co-operation Development (OECD)
• Principles of Corporate Governance (international best practice guidelines)
• OECD Principles for Corporate governance
• Transparency
• Disclosure committees
• Executive compensation
• Independence of Board
• Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley, representation letters
• The role of internal auditing in these sensitive issues
• Tools for assessing transparency
• CSR is a Risk Management Tool
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Organizational performance
• Metrics
• Internal auditing as a catalyst for ERM
• Examine examples of several organizations, industries, and public and non-public entities
• Monitoring Audit committee role/charters
• Tools for audit committee self-assessment
• Corporate governance as an auditable risk area
• Managing relationships
• Positioning internal auditing in the organization
• Tracking and measuring governance

Day 4

• Internal controls
• The Seven (7) Principles of Public Life
• Applied business ethics in good corporate governance preventing fraud
• Corporate Governance linked to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• How CSR as an antidote to corporate greed
• UN Global Compact – The 9 principles in Corporate Social Responsibility
• Investing in CSR
• What are the key drivers of CSR Programme?
• Reputation Management
• Activism, Threats, Litigation
• How do Companies Respond to Challenges?
• Identifying risks – social, environment, ethical risks
• A case-study on waste management 
• Communications
• Ensuring all elements of governance are communicated
• Developing a strategy to link and implement all the elements of corporate       Governance
• Wrap Up
• Practical solutions to meeting standards for assuring governance
• Risk and opportunities for the internal audit profession
• Personal challenges to the auditor