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Corporate Governance and Risk Management

Course Description: This course examines the governance mechanisms, enterprise risk management frameworks, and regulatory choices that shape decision-making and corporate performance. Students will explore the foundations of corporate governance in diverse international and legal environments, including the role of boards of directors, their duties, structures, and accountability in overseeing risks. The course covers strategic oversight, identification, assessment, and mitigation of financial, operational, and strategic risks, CEO succession planning, executive compensation, and stock ownership as tools to align management behavior with corporate objectives and risk tolerances. Students will also apply concepts of financial reporting, risk disclosure, external audits, the market for corporate control, and shareholder activism as external accountability mechanisms. The course concludes by analyzing governance rating systems and alternative governance models, enabling students to derive and build evidence-based best practices in governance design, risk management strategies, and reform.

Credit hours: 3

Objectives of the course :

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Understand the foundations of corporate governance, international governance frameworks, and enterprise risk management principles, as well as the duties, structure, and accountability of boards of directors.
 Evaluation of strategic oversight, risk management strategies, CEO succession planning, executive compensation, and stock ownership.
 Application of financial reporting concepts, risk disclosure reports, external audit, corporate control market, and shareholder activism.
Analyze governance assessment systems, risk assessment models, alternative governance models, and extract best practices for governance and risk control.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
• Differentiates between corporate governance principles, international governance frameworks, enterprise risk management concepts, and the duties, structure, and accountability mechanisms of boards of directors.
Discusses issues related to strategic oversight, methods for identifying and assessing risks, CEO succession planning, executive compensation, and equity ownership as tools to ensure alignment of interests.
 Evaluates the effectiveness of financial reporting, risk disclosure, external audit, market for corporate control, and shareholder activism as external governance mechanisms, in addition to governance assessment systems and alternative governance models.
2) Skills:
Applies problem-solving and critical thinking skills to resolve complex and advanced issues in corporate governance and enterprise risk management.
3) Values, Responsibility, and Autonomy:
Analyzes ethical dilemmas that arise in the corporate governance and risk management environment.

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Last updated: 2026-05-10