Required:

Assume you are employed in a management consulting firm and have expertise as a corporate

governance specialist. Your client, Tourism Australian has requested you to provide a one

page brief (maximum 250 words) specifying the essential criteria for a director to be

appointed to the board of Tourism Australia.

The client has said; ‘Make it brief, I’m too busy to read a long document. You should follow

the ideas of former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill who stated:

‘To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. Nearly all of them are far too

long. This wastes time, while energy has to be spent in looking for the essential points.

I ask my colleagues and their staff to see to it that their reports are shorter. The aim

should be reports which set out the main points in a series of short, crisp paragraphs…’

Required

Assume you have been employed as a corporate governance consultant by the Australian

Institute of Company Directors (AICD). The AICD is concerned that investors do not value good

corporate governance in their investment decision-making models. Your assignment is to

prepare a report to be submitted to the AICD evaluating the evidence that good corporate

governance is positively associated with high investor returns. In your report the AICD has

asked you to make recommendations so that companies with good corporate governance

practices can align these practices to maximise their investor returns.

Required

Assume you have been employed as a corporate governance consultant by the Australian

Shareholders Association (ASA). The ASA is concerned with the risks associated with

investments in corporations that do not have a ‘best practice’ whistleblower policy. In order

to minimise this risk the ASA wants to know what are the best-practice contemporary

standards for whistleblower policies. Your assignment is to prepare a report to be published

on the ASA web site recommending best-practice whistleblower policy for adoption by listed

companies on the Australian stock exchange.

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