Corporate Governance

Course Coordinator: To be announced

Course Developer: Carman Lam, HKMU

Aims
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the rationale for adopting governance standards, the nature and purpose of those standards, the modes of implementing good corporate governance practices, the most important contemporary corporate governance issues globally and, in particular, those that relate to Hong Kong and Mainland China. Additionally, the course will analyse the importance of corporate social responsibility concept to better inform students about the issues they need to be aware of in their future professional careers.

Contents
The course covers the following topics:

• The corporate governance system and its underlying theoretical bases
• The regulatory framework relating to corporate governance
• Directors' evaluation
• Board evaluation
• Corporate governance around the world
• Corporate social responsibility

Learning support
There will be four three-hour online tutorials with a series of pre-recorded supplementary lecture videos.

Assessment
There are two assignments and one examination. Students must use word processing software (such as Microsoft Word) to prepare the assignments, and submit the assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).

Set book(s) 
To be advised.