Reference no: EM133794806

Governance, Ethics and Sustainability

Assessment - Analysis of Corporate Governance Information

Type - Worksheet & Recorded Oral Presentation

Your Task

Part A: You will complete a worksheet during your Week 2 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
Selecting, analysing and assessing information provided by companies online displays advanced Critical Thinking skills that are highly valued in business 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 Worksheet: During the Week 2 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 2 workshop. In addition, your facilitator will ask you to provide a copy of your work at the end of the workshop session.

Part B Video Presentation (20 marks):
Select ONE of these company pairings:
Comparison 1: Bendigo Adelaide Bank and AGL

Comparison 2: Medibank and Wesfarmers

Use the links provided to explore the disclosed corporate governance information for both companies in your comparison group. You will use this information to consider how well your case study organizations are following the ASX CGC Principles 1 and 2.

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 2 workshop). This slide should help inform your overall verdict on relative corporate governance performance.

Record a 5- to 6-minute Video Presentation using your slide deck as a visual aid.
Worksheet

Part A: Preparing for my Video Presentation
Question 1: Use the box below to tell us a little bit about yourself, including your Country of Origin; and an interesting fact about you.

Question 2:Fill in the table below. Consult ASX CGC Principles 1 and 2 as you work.

Principle 1: Lay solid foundations for management and oversight

Principle 2: Structure the Board to be effective and add value

Developing research questions for Assessment 1 Part B
Assessment 1 Part B challenges you to investigate the website information for ONE of the following company pairings:
Comparison 1:Bendigo Adelaide Bank and AGL
Comparison 2:Medibank and Wesfarmers
Your presentation should contain one slide that explains the basis on which you form your verdict that one company displays stronger corporate governance structures and disclosures than the other.
Below, you are invited to create two ‘research questions' or ‘criteria', upon which to base your answer to the question:
"Which company website provides the stronger corporate governance disclosure?"
Question 2: Consult the Evidence column on your page 1 Table, plus the two conclusions provided from Chat GPT (below). Now, develop TWO research questions (criteria) to help you decide which case company provides the stronger corporate governance structures and disclosure.

Research Question 1/Criterion 1:
A company with strong corporate governance structures will display

Research Question 2/Criterion 2:
A company that engages in strong corporate governance disclosure will

Questions to consider
(a) How can we be sure that this information reflects the most up-to-date corporate governance information online? How would you work out the recency of the Corporate Governance information provided by Chat GPT?

(b) What do you notice about the referencing provided? (Consistency across the two answers, and adherence to the KBS referencing style?)