Corporate Governance Training, Compliance Best Practices and Standards

Corporate Governance Training

The term ‘corporate governance’ is usually splashed across in headlines when reading about company scandals, corruption and fraud. The board of directors, Chief executive officers, senior managers, shareholders, stakeholders, audit committees, governance committees, and compensation committees each has a set of responsibilities to ensure ethical and compliant corporate behavior. Corporate governance holds organizations and people accountable.

Managers and directors usually use a variety of tools and strategies to assist corporate governance activities. These include:

• Internal control systems
• Risk management
• Disclosure systems
• Corporate responsibility

To decrease the abuse of power and increase the integrity of decision making within organizations, there’s an unprecedented emphasis laid on improving corporate processes, controls and accountabilities.

Corporate Governance Best Practices Include:

• Building a Competent Board
• Aligning Strategies with Goals
• Being Accountable
• Having a High Level of Ethics and Integrity
• Defining Roles and Responsibilities
• Evaluating performance and make principled compensation decisions
• Engaging in in effective risk management

Why Corporate Governance Training?

Our training programs teaches corporate governance professionals the skills they need to upkeep the integrity and credibility of the organizations they serve whether public, private, nonprofit, and institutional. These programs help organizations to gain investor financing providing assurance to creditors and workers that the organization is credible and sustainable. Training in corporate governance enhances the performance of directors and corporations, thus strengthening the foundation of trust in our market economy.

Our Training Programs Cover

• Essential components of top performing boards
• Best practices of corporate governance
• Involvement of strategic Board
• Maintain a positive board culture
• Importance of change management
• And more..

Corporate Governance Laws

As a result of the investors call for reform in the United States and the United Kingdom, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) set the Principles of Corporate Governance in 1999 to set global standards.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was enacted in July 2002 to restore investors' confidence in the financial markets and close loopholes that allowed public companies to defraud investors.