ØABED4400 Corporate Governance Course description

Vagelis Plevris

None.

No formal requirements over and above the admission requirements.

The course is based on knowledge acquired in the course BYVE3300 Statics, part of the bachelor's degree programme in civil engineering (OsloMet), or a course with a equivalent learning outcomes.

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).

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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.

After completing this course, the student will gain the following knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

Students have in-depth knowledge of:

• general mechanical behaviours of different soil types based on previous laboratory test results
• elastic-plasticity theory and stress-strain relationships
• concept of critical state and critical state soil mechanics
• soil models used in numerical simulation tools and their limitations
• Mathematical and theoretical basis of finite element method

Skills

Students can:

• capture key soil behaviours and interpret important soil parameters to be used for numerical simulation
• understand soil elastic-plasticity and critical state soil mechanics
• derive the simple constitutive equation to describe soil stress-strain behaviours
• modify / develop simple numerical work based on soil models to simulate soil elementary test
• use numerical tool (e.g. PLAXIS or GeoSuite) to solve the boundary value problem in geotechnical design

General competence

Students:

• deepen the understanding of soil mechanical behaviours and can use mathematics to simply describe it
• have good overview of typical soil models and can choose proper model to simulate soil behaviours

can use numerical tools (e.g. PLAXIS or GeoSuite) to perform numerical analysis with the selection of good parameter inputs, right boundary condition setting and result validation