After completing this class the student will have the ability to:

• use the concepts of corporate governance in every day thinking;
• understand the role of good governance in the corporate success;
• understand the relationship between the company management, board of directors and shareholders;
• understand the reasons for the variety in corporate governance practices both within one country and between countries and the recent trend of convergence in corporate governance practices;
• understand the theoretical basis of the Board of Directors, Investor Relations, Executive Compensation, Internal Control and risk management, corporate governance regulation, and various roles of owners in corporate governance, and the logic how they work;
• understand how corporate governance bundles are constructed;
• evaluate the quality of corporate governance practices.

Furthermore, after completing this class the student will have the ability to:

• work independently writing analytical essays based on given material and apply it empirically;
• work effectively in a team in order to contribute appropriately to the production of a group output, report and presentation;
• participate in class-room, kgroup and one-to-one discussion.

Besides, after completing this class the student will have the ability to:

• use scientific argumentation skills in the discussions;
• write a short research report based on academic papers and empirical material.

Classroom work including interactive lectures by Seppo, probably some mini cases and finally presentations by students.
Diary where individual company is analyzed based pre-readings. Each student selects (one publicly quoted) company for detailed analysis in the diaries.
During the lectures, we will use students’ companies as illustrative cases on the discussed topic. With these case companies, students bring practice into the lectures.
Students’ reports and presentations offer an opportunity to go deeper in specific topics.

• Positive completion of each of the four courses of the subject "Basics Finance, Accounting and Taxation".
• Positive completion of at least six courses of the subject "Advanced Finance, Accounting and Taxation".
• Pre-allocation to elective.v