Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

308112 (v.2) Law (Advanced Corporate Governance) 574


Area: School of Business Law and Taxation
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Co Requisite(s): 5934 (v.4) Legal Environment 560 or any previous version
Syllabus: Advanced studies in corporate governance procedures as they affect the management of companies through the function and structure of the board of directors. The influence of both external and internal market controls and pressures in an era of globalisation and economic rationalism and their impact on business ethics. Risk assessment and internal management controls including due diligence considerations and how these interface with directors' fiduciary and statutory duties. International corporate governance principles, particularly those developed by the Commonwealth Association for Corporate Governance (CACG) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), are examined to ascertain their relevance to Australian companies.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090901 Business and Commercial Law
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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