Reference no: EM133740631
Governance, Ethics and Sustainability
Assessment - Analysis of Corporate Governance Information
Task
Part A: You will complete a worksheet during your Week 3 workshop. This worksheet is designed to assist with your Oral Presentation planning.
Part B : Record a video presentation in which you compare, analyse and critically evaluate the disclosed corporate governance information provided by two prominent Australian companies listed in the ASX.
Assessment Description
Researching information provided by companies online is an important business skill. Selecting, analysing and assessing online information displays advanced Critical Thinking skills that are highly valued in professionals.
Learning Outcome 1: Evaluate the success (or lack thereof) of an organisation's governance responsibilities
Learning Outcome 2: Analyse the legal and regulatory environment in Australia with a view to understanding its impact on business strategy
Learning Outcome 3: Analyse the role of the board in the assessment of strategy and risk, and the way in which this expertise can be better utilised
Assessment Instructions
Part A : During the Week 3 workshop, you will spend 30 minutes completing a worksheet in-class in preparation for your Assessment 1 video presentation. Instructions for completing the sheet will be provided on the worksheet, and in-class by your workshop facilitator.
Your Part A worksheet should be submitted through Moodle in MyKBS no later than 10 pm the day of your Week 3 workshop. In addition, your facilitator will ask you to provide a copy of your work at the end of the 30-minute class session.
Part B :
Select ONE of these company pairings:
Comparison 1: Westpac and BHP
Comparison 2: Optus and Qantas
Prepare a slide deck of between 6 and 12 slides in answer to the following questions.
Assess the company's Board in terms of its composition, attending to Board compliance with ASX CGC Recommendations 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5.
Briefly discuss the disclosed Board Skills matrix (ASX 2.2) and its mix of professional and specialist director skills.
List the named Board committees for each company you are investigating. Do the Board members display an adequate range of skills, to cover the various Board committees?
What evidence (if any) could you find that your case study company is: (a) tracking attendances and performance of its Leadership Team and (b) providing professional development opportunities for Board members? (ASX 2.1 and 1.6)
Critically evaluate the user-friendliness and general accessibility of corporate governance information for each of your case companies.
Based on the above, your final slides should provide reasons to show which of your two case companies displays the better combination of Corporate Governance structure plus Corporate Governance disclosure. Ideally, one slide should display the two research questions (criteria) that you developed for Part A (Week 3 workshop). This slide should help inform your overall verdict on relative corporate governance performance.
Note: Need Only Part B