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MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS LEADERSHIP MBA PROGRAMME: INTAKE 9 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: MBA829 COURSE OUTLINE Semester: January – May 2008 Lecturer: Mr. A. Matongo (Telephone: 054223523 email: [email protected] or [email protected] , Office No. 04, TelOne TC) PART I: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: BASIC INGREDIENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Origin of Corporate Governance Meaning of Corporate Governance Basic Ingredients of Good Corporate Governance Reasons for recent interest in Corporate Governance Role of codes of Corporate Governance PART II: BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 6. 7. 8. 9. Internal & External Environment Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Management of Public Limited Companies Majority Rule & Minority Protection and Prevention of Oppression & Mismanagement PART III: CORPORATE OBJECTIVES & ACCOUNTING PRACTICES 10. Firm’s Goal or Basic Objective 11. Ownership Pattern & Governance Theory 12. Universal Creative Accounting Practices 13. Accounting Standards and Corporate Governance. PART IV: COMPANY DIRECTION & CONTROL 14. Company Board & Corporate Management 15. Board Committees and Corporate Governance 16. Whistle-Blowing 17. Corporate Governance Rating (CGR) 18. Separation of Positions of Chairman and CEO PART V: IMPORTANT CODES OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 19. In India 20. In the UK 21. In Germany & Europe 22. In the USA 23. In South Africa & Zimbabwe. PART VI: SELECTION OF CASE STUDIES IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 24. Parmalat Accounting Scam – Italy 25. AOL Time Warner - USA 26. WorldCom – USA 27. Enron – A Saga of Boom and Bust – USA 28. Royal Dutch Shell – A Case Study of Creative Accounting 29. NMBZ Nostrol Accounting Fraud – Zimbabwe 30. The RBZ and Corporate FCAs PART VII: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS 31. Nature, origin and effects of the global financial crisis (2008 and ongoing) 32. Corporate Governance issues behind the crisis 33. Zimbabwe and the global financial crisis. PART VIII: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ISSUES IN NON-CORPORATE BODIES 34. Family Businesses; 35. State-owned enterprises and 36. Civil society. Texts & Other Reading Sources 1. Prescribed Text: . Dr. S. Singh: Corporate Governance: Global Concepts and Practices (Excel Books, 2005) Further Reading: 2. Bhatia S. K. ; Business Ethics and Corporate Governance { Deep and Deep Publications Pvt. Ltd.) 3. Bingham , K.: Corporate Governance Handbook (Gee Publishing) 4. Chambers, A.: Tolley’s Corporate Governance Handbook (Tolley’s, 2002) 5. Charkham, J. Keeping Good Compan: A Study of Corporatye Governance in Five Countries. (OUP, 1995) 6. Coyle, Brian: Corporate Governance 2003-2004 7. Low Chee Keong: Corporate Governance: An Asia-Pacific Critique (Sweet & Maxwell, 2002) Important websites 8. Business for Social Responsibility: www.bsr.org 9. Council of Institutional Investors: www.cii.org 10. OECD principles of Corporate Governance: www.oecd.org 11. The Corporate Library: www.thecorporatelibrary.com 12. Bank Licensing, Supervision and Surveillance: Guideline No. 01-2004/BSD Corporate Governance (RBZ website) And many more.