Corporate Governance class 5

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Transcript of Corporate Governance class 5

Issues in corporate governance

• Ensuring the basis for an effective corporate governance framework

• The rights of shareholders and key ownership functions

• The equitable treatment of shareholders• The role of stakeholders in corporate governance• Disclosure and transparency• The responsibilities of the board

1.Distinguishing the roles of board and management

2.Composition of the board and related issues

3.Separation of roles of CEO and Chairperson

• The CEO is ultimately accountable to the board of directors for the company's performance.

• The chairman of a company is the head of its board of directors.

4.Should the board have committees

5.Appointment of board of directors and re-election

Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company in 1852

6.Directors and executives remuneration

• Transparency• Position• process

7.Disclosure and Audit

8.Protection of shareholders rights and their expectation

9.Dialogue with institutional Shareholders

10.Hould investors have a say in making a company socially responsible citizen

• “Corporate Citizenship is a recognition that a business, corporation or business-like organisation, has social, cultural and environmental responsibilities to the community in which it seeks a licence to operate, as well as economic and financial ones to its shareholders or immediate stakeholders.