Corporate Governance

• In association with Quorum Training

• Explain the responsibilities of the board and others for direction and oversight
• Cover latest developments in corporate governance
• Provide practical advice on best board practice
• Give guidance on performing effectively as executive or non-executive directors
• Show how corporate governance can both go badly wrong but also succeed well
• Demonstrate whether and how good corporate governance "pays off"

• What do we mean by corporate governance?
• The revised 2008 Combined Code - what it says and its new challenges
• Corporate governance in the 2006 Companies Act
• The value of the board
• What makes a board effective?
• The effective director
• Independent directors
• The board's responsibility for policy, direction and strategy
• Latest advice on audit committees
• Corporate governance reports, including reporting on internal control
• The Turnbull guidance and the Turnbull Review effective 2006
• COSO on Enterprise Risk Management
• International developments

Course Dates

09/10/2012 London

09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information

Andrew Chambers 
is with Management Audit LLP and was previously Dean of Cass Business School, London. He has recent or current NED and audit committee experience of a FTSE 250 company, a mutual, an NHS Trust, a charity and a private company. He is author of Corporate Governance Handbook (Bloomsbury) and is a member of FEE’s Company Law & Corporate Governance Committee (Brussels).