Optional Courses

Corporate Governance will help establish a clear skillset for company directors, allowing them to reconcile external and internal controls, risk management, competitive behaviour and adherence to corporate law.

Topics include:

• Corporate governance issues, concepts and domain.
• External governance – law and regulation.
• Codes of ‘best practice’ and norms of behaviour.
• Boards of directors: the lynchpin.
• Internal controls and accountability.
• Risk management.
• Financial market supervision and control.
• Governance and financial market economics.
• External reporting need vs. delivery.
• Definition inconsistency and system improvement.
• Reality in the face of prescription.

A thorough understanding of the methods and processes of business research is the key component of this course. It looks at the concept of research, both original and applied, and examines how information can provide a greater understanding of your business and its successful management.

Topics include:

• Research methods and your dissertation.
• The project process.
• The research process.
• Using what’s already known.
• Semi-structured primary data techniques.
• Fully structured primary data techniques.
• Writing the dissertation.