ØABED4400 Corporate Governance Course description

The course provides a comprehensive overview on corporate governance theory and practice, covering topics such as ownership and control, boards of directors, managerial incentives, corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment. The language of the course is English.

Applied Statistical Methods and Corporate Finance.

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After completing the course, students will acquired the learning outcomes defined in knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has

• in-depth knowledge of what a corporate governance problem is and how it can be discovered and handled. 
• an overview of the main theoretical and empirical evidence concerning corporate governance issues.

Skills

The student is capable of

• applying relevant techniques, statistical methods and data sources in different investigations as an integrated part of theoretical and empirical discussions
• analyzing a company's corporate governance guideline and proxy statements and writing a basic corporate governance analysis report.

Competence

The student is able to 

• reflect on the financial and ethical implications of corporate decisions.
• critically appraise and apply corporate governance principles and best practices in risk management for an organization.

Lectures  / tutorials / group discussions / exercises / case analyses 

The following coursework requirements must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam: 

Two individual assignments (problem sets, about one-hour work each)

All required coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline in order for the student to take the exam. If one or more coursework requirements have not been approved, the student will be given the opportunity to submit an improved version (at most one extra time) by the given deadline. The lecturer will provide more detailed information about deadlines for submission.

The exam in the course is a supervised exam of 4 hours (50%) and a group project/semesteroppgave (50%). For the group project, you are expected to work with a group of 2-3 students and write a literature review of 1-2 pages and a corporate governance reports of 5-10 pages (Font Arial or Calibri, font size 12, line spacing 1.15).  

The following aids are permitted at the school exam:

• Calculator (see separate regulations).
• One dictionary (either first language-English/English-first language or English/English).

Group project:

All reference aids are allowed as long as the rules for source references are followed.

Grade scale A to F.

An internal and an external examiner will grade the exam.

A selection of at least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded to exam papers assessed by the external and internal examiner will be used to determine the level of all exam papers.

Danielle Zhang