1. Liabilities
' Civil and criminal liabilities of company directors
2. Reviewing the rules that govern internal and external company audits
' Reforming auditing
' Independence of company auditors
' Audit Committee
' Liability of company auditors
3. Corporate governance
' Role and functioning of the board of directors and its chairman
' Appointment / re-election, training and remuneration of directors and executives
' Financial reporting / auditing and corporate governance
' Relations with shareholders (the role of the General Meeting, dialogue
with institutional investors; relations with controlling shareholders)
4. Disposal of companies and shareholder agreements
' Practical aspects and types of agreements
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On completion of this course, students will be able: They will also be familiar with the principles of corporate governance and rules applicable in this field in Belgium both from the statutory and regulatory perspective and in terms of best practice and the Belgian Corporate Governance Code. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Oral examination
Lectures
DE WOLF P., (i), Le conseil d'administration : répartition, délégation de pouvoirs
et mandats spéciaux, J.T., March 1998, pp. 217 to 224, (ii), Exercice du pouvoir et
fonctionnement de la S.A. : un régime de liberté (moins) surveillée, J.T.,
September 2003, pp. 589 to 597, (iii), La réforme du contrôle des societies : un pas
vers la confiance retrouvée, J.T., December 2009, pp. 741 to 750, (iv), Gestion des
sociétés ' évolutions récentes, January 2010, http://www.businessandlaw.be
