You are a gatekeeper! Beginning
with the Enron collapse and continuing into the current
economic meltdown, pressure from several directions
is pushing corporations to strengthen their corporate
governance practices. This course provides an in-depth
study of some of the principal issues involved in creating
and maintaining an appropriate governance system for
the modern publicly-held corporation. Topics to be
explored include governance rules and structures, director
and auditor independence, compensation determinations,
internal controls and corporate investigations, the
role of institutional shareholders and shareholder
services organizations, Sarbanes-Oxley, among others.
The instructor has been the General Counsel of one
of Montana’s largest public companies for the
last nine years. Partly drawing from his experiences,
the instructor will engage the students in a discussion
of corporate governance topics from both theoretical
and practical perspectives. Students are expected to
complete a paper and take an active part in class discussion.
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