Promoting Governance - The Corporate Gatekeeper's Role

Description

This course examines the role, responsibility, and accountability of all corporate gatekeepers in promoting effective corporate governance to achieve the organization's goals. As corporate governance is emerging and advancing, some financial officers may not have a complete understanding of all the corporate governance requirements and how they affect their actions on the job.

Corporate governance has been transformed from simply a routine set of compliance requirements to a strategic business imperative. The integrity, reliability, and transparency of financial reports are a function of corporate governance effectiveness. Effective and sound corporate governance measures and practices have become a mandate for both public and private firms regardless of their size, type, or location. No longer is corporate governance just seen as one of the many compliance requirements. In this course, you will understand that corporate gatekeepers are the focal point of these efforts and the conduits of company information to shareholders, management, customers, suppliers, financiers, government, and the community. You know how the COVID-19 pandemic has had tremendous implications for people and organizations. This course presents an insight into the COVID-19 crisis and its impacts on organizational behavior and corporate governance norms and measures. The challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and related changes affect all aspects of business organizations from the oversight function by the board of directors to the managerial function by executives and audit function by auditors. By the end of this course, you will have gained a complete understanding of all the corporate governance requirements and how they affect their actions on the job. The resource files are uploaded on the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Promoting-Governance---The-Corporate-Gatekeeper-s-Role-

Present guiding principles and functions of corporate governance
Discuss drivers and sources of corporate governance
Examine corporate governance mechanisms and measures
Present corporate governance reporting and assurance
Discuss changes in corporate governance structure imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic
Recognize PCAOB, SEC, and SOX requirements and protections

This course is designed for all corporate gatekeepers including the board of directors, senior management, financial officers, internal auditors, external auditors, legal counsel, investors, and regulators.

Anyone interested in business management skills or related fields will also benefit from this course.

No advanced preparation or prerequisites are needed for this course.

This is a short yet comprehensive course on examining the role, responsibility, and accountability of all corporate gatekeepers in promoting effective corporate governance. You will get the questions and answers set in the course bundle to reinforce your learning.

Discuss the impact and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic on corporate governance * Role of corporate governance, social responsibility, and ethics in training the most competent and ethical future business leaders * Impact of the recent regulatory reforms, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Dodd-Frank Act of 2010

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Promoting-Governance---The-Corporate-Gatekeeper-s-Role-

Dr. Zabihollah (Zabi) Rezaee is the Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence and Professor of Accountancy at the University of Memphis. He served a two-year term on the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. He received his BS degree from the Iranian Institute of Advanced Accounting, his MBA from Tarleton State University in Texas, and his Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. He served as the 2012-2014 secretary of the Forensic and Investigative Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association and is currently the editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research of the AAA. He has published over 250 articles in accounting and business journals and has made more than 300 presentations. He has also published 12 books on finance and corporate governance.

1. Introduction

This section consists of all the content related to corporate governance and the responsibilities of corporate gatekeepers.