
1. Accountability and Budget
2. Stockholders' Rights and Protection of Minority Stockholders' Interests
3. Governance Self Rating System
4. Disclosure and Transparency
5. Commitment to Good Governance
6. Regular Review of the Code and the Scorecard
7. Administrative Sanctions
8. Corporate Governance Life Cycle
8.1. Founding Entrepreneurs
8.2. Private Company
8.3. Launch Governance Challenges
8.3.1. Raise capital
8.3.2. Recruit board of directors
8.3.3. Establish accountability
8.4. IPO (Initial Public Offering)
8.5. Public Corporation
8.5.1. Majority Shareholders
8.6. Growth Governance challenges
8.6.1. Risk management
8.6.2. Develop board directors
8.6.3. Engage stakeholders
8.7. Public Corporation
8.7.1. Diffuse Shareholders
8.8. Maturity Governance challenges
8.8.1. Maintain alertness
8.8.2. Board Assessment
8.8.3. Advance value commitments
9. Board Structure and Performance
9.1. Inputs
9.1.1. Independence
9.1.2. Diligence
9.1.3. Competence
9.1.4. Ethics
9.2. Processess
9.2.1. Board Structure
9.2.2. Productive meetings
9.2.3. Succession planning system
9.2.4. Financing reporting/risk management
9.2.5. Strategic Information systems
9.2.6. Performance evaluation/compensation systems
9.3. Outputs
9.3.1. Superior strategic guidance
9.3.2. Accountable organisations
9.3.3. High quality senior executives
9.4. Outcomes
9.4.1. Long term financial success
10. Elements
10.1. Well-defined shareholder rights
10.2. Board Commitment
10.3. Good Board Practices
10.4. Control Environment
10.5. Transparent Disclosure
11. Pillars
11.1. Accountability
11.2. Fairness
11.2.1. protect shareholders rights
11.3. Transparency
11.3.1. ensure timely and accurate disclosure on all material matters
11.4. Independence
11.4.1. procedures are in place to avoid completely conflicts of interest
12. Board Governance
12.1. Composition of the Board
12.2. Multiple Board Seats
12.3. The Chair and Chair Executive Officer
12.4. Qualifications of Directors
12.5. Disqualification of Directors
12.5.1. Permanent
12.5.2. Temporary
12.6. Responsibilities, Duties and Functions of the Board
12.6.1. General Responsibility
12.6.2. Duties and Functions
12.7. Specific Duties and Responsibilities of a Director
12.8. Internal Control Responsibilities of the Board
12.9. Board Meetings and Quorum Requirement
12.10. Remuneration of Directors and Officers
12.11. Board Committees
12.11.1. Audit Committee
12.11.2. Remuneration Committee
12.11.3. Nomination Committee
12.12. Corporate Secretary
12.13. Compliance Officer
13. Parties
13.1. Shareholders
13.1.1. those that own the company
13.2. Directors
13.2.1. guardians of the Company's assets for the Shareholders