A number of corporate scandals over the years have highlighted significant corporate governance failures. This has led to a focus on the need for improved corporate governance. This talk will examine the steps that have been taken to improve corporate governance and will review the structures and processes required for good corporate governance

Covering

• What is corporate governance?

• The development of corporate governance

• The protection of shareholders

• Governance of public companies

• The role of the board

• The relationship between the board and management

• The role of the chairman

• Duties of directors

• Non-executive directors

• Board committees

• Audit committee

• Remuneration committee 

• Corporate governance and risk

• Governance in private companies and other entities

Speaker: John Doris B.Sc. M.B.A. F.C.C.A

John Doris is a non-executive director of Mincon Group plc and a number of private companies. He has been an independent consultant and a non-executive director for the past nineteen years.

Prior to becoming an independent consultant, he was a director of ABN Amro Corporate Finance (Ireland) Limited where he managed the successful Riada Business Expansion Funds. He graduated from University College Dublin with a B.Sc. in physics in 1969 which was followed by an M.B.A. in 1977. He qualified as an ACCA in 1974 and is a former president of ACCA Ireland.