Governance, Risk and Ethics

Governance and Responsibility: The scope of governance, Agency relationships and theories, The board of directors, Board committees, Directors’ remuneration, Different approaches to corporate governance, Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, Governance: reporting and disclosure, Public sector governance

Internal control and review: Management control systems in corporate Governance, Internal control, audit and compliance Incorporate governance, Internal control and reporting, Management information in audit and internal control

Controlling risk: Targeting and monitoring risk, Methods of controlling and reducing risk, Risk avoidance, retention and modelling

Identifying and assessing risk: Risk and the risk management
process, Categories of risk, Identification, assessment and
measurement of risk

Professional values, ethics and social responsibility: Ethical theories, Different approaches to ethics and social responsibility, Professions and the public interest, Professional practice and codes of ethics, Conflicts of interest and the consequences of unethical Behavior; Ethical characteristics of professionalism; social and environmental issues in the conduct of business and of ethical behaviour.