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Register now to enhance your corporate governance and financial oversight skills, ensure transparency, and make decisions that support your organization's success.
Corporate governance is simply about how we run our businesses to ensure they are run properly, fairly and in the interests of all key stakeholders. Boards of directors are responsible for the governance of their companies, but all employees need to be aware of their roles and responsibilities and apply the policies, procedures and guidelines which the board sets out for them. This module focuses on the financial stewardship and accountability obligations of the board to shareholders and other key stakeholders.
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In Class Training
Financial stewardship
Stakeholder capitalism
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
International Financial Reporting Standards
International Accounting Standards
International Auditing Standards
Assumptions underlying financial statements to include: Going concern
Qualities of financial information to include: relevance, reliability, verifiability, completeness, materiality, understandability, comparability, consistency, timeliness etc
The board’s key accounting information needs to include key financial performance metrics and ratios
Measuring financial health and performance
The 5 statements (financial position, income statement, changes in equity, statement of cash flow and notes)
Elements of financial statements (assets, liabilities, equity expenses etc)
Accounting ratios – overview of solvency, liquidity, profit, operational and gearing ratios.
Accounting policies
Management accounts
Frameworks for financial information e.g., G20/ OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
Financial oversight roles e.g., audit committee, CFO etc
Internal and external users of financial information
Shareholder communications
The consequences of inadequate financial information
Financial oversight and financial crisis indicators
In Class Training
Funding sources
Relative advantages and disadvantages of equity versus debt
IPOs – advantages / disadvantages of listing
PE ratio
Dividend policy
Weighted average cost of capital
Mergers, acquisitions, divestments
Company valuation – net asset versus earning valuations
Capital investment decision making to include: payback, accounting rate of return, internal rate of return, NPV and DCF
Overfinancing, over trading and overinvestment
Financial red flags
In Class Training
The role of the regulator(s)
Disclosure obligations
Information disclosure policy
The benefits and drivers of financial and non-financial information disclosures and transparency
Non-financial reporting
Integrated reporting
Sustainability reporting
Sustainable development Goals
Frequency of reporting – quarterly versus annual
Effective shareholder communications and investor relations
Shareholder activism
The Annual Report
The General Assembly / AGM / EGM
The website
The power of social media
Related party transactions and insider trading
In Class Training
The role of the Audit committee, Internal Audit, and internal controls
3 lines model (formerly 3 lines of defence)
Whistleblowing procedures and best practices
In Class Training
The role of the External audit
Audit opinion
Audit scepticism
Describe the board’s role in financial stewardship and financial oversight activities.
Discuss the international and local accounting environment.
Analyze financial statements, their relation to liquidity, profitability, and performance.
Identify the consequences of inadequate financial information.
Define the reporting environment and identify the key users and their information needs.
Analyze the key elements of narrative reporting and explain the methods for communicating with investors and other stakeholders.
Define the regulator’s role in enforcing reporting obligations.
Explain the importance of effective shareowner communications and investor relations.
Identify sources of corporate finance and their relative advantages and disadvantages.
Assess the critical issues associated with determining a company’s capital gearing, dividend policy, and valuation.
Identify various capital investment appraisal techniques.
Identify financial crisis indicators.
Identify the key characteristics of the control environment, board responsibilities and internal controls.
Identify the audit committee’s organization, roles, and duties.
Describe the contribution that external audit makes to sound corporate governance.
Discuss whistleblowing, current oversight concerns, and regulatory developments.
