This is a guide for writing your corporate governance report, you can use this as a structure or feel free to be creative with your report.

Note: Make sure your report relates back to corporate governance

Tips: Cover page, contents page, tables, figures, and a reference list are essential to a successful research report. If chosen to include tables or figures it must be cited if outsourced and included in your discussion.

Cover Page

(Name of allocated Company, Student name, Student ID, Workshop Day, and time)

Brief description of the company analysed

(You will need to provide a brief description of allocated company)

The CEO (5 marks)

(You can answer each question in separate sections or in a summary) (Also refer to note and tips for a successful research business report)

In this section you will need to answer:

1. Who is the CEO of the company?
2. How much did the CEO make last year?
3. What form did the compensation take (salary bonus, options)?
4. How much equity in the company does the CEO own?

The Board of Directors (5 marks)

(You can answer each question in separate sections or in a summary) (Also refer to note and tips for a successful research business report)

In this section you will need to answer:

1. Who are on the board of directors of the company?
2. How long have they served as directors?
3. What is their remuneration?
4. How many of the directors have other connections to the firm (as suppliers, clients, customers, etc.)? Are they independent?
5. How many of the directors are CEOs of other companies?
6. Do any of the directors have large stockholdings?

Note: Relate the above to corporate governance of the company. Though there are six separate questions but you can answer this as a continuing discussion highlighting corporate governance issues of the information contained in your answer.