UEH Standard programs in English (20% English)

The subject of Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility and Ethics in Finance is specially designed to equip learners with three blocks of knowledge that are intensively studied in the academic finance literature and attract attention from businesses, financial markets and governments:
1). Corporate Governance or Ethics oversight includes company policies and the laws by which it governs and shapes the way a joint stock company is to be controlled and operated. Students will be equipped with the basic skills to assess the quality of governance monitoring systems, thereby reducing potential conflicts between stakeholders, and thus, increasing the company’s value. This body of knowledge will provide the basic contents of the governance monitoring process from many different angles such as ownership structure, board structure and independence, the balance of power between managers and managers. Senior executives, investors, creditors, employees activities, authorities, other stakeholders, even the media, as well as evaluating the effectiveness, roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in improving the quality of public governance oversight.
2). Financial ethics is an issue that managers and investors need to understand when working in the financial sector. This is especially the case in situations where financial behavior is not clearly controlled and sanctioned by law, but can offer potential benefits to decision makers. And so administrators and investors will be tempted to break the rules and behave unethically with dire consequences. The course will equip students with knowledge of the fundamentals of financial ethics, ethics in customer relations, ethics in investment, ethics in financial markets and ethics in business. corporate financial management. Moreover, the students will be equipped with most recent knowledge from finance research in top academic outlets on how financial ethics matters to corporate value and policy.
3) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is referred to as emerging practices in business in recent years, meaning businesses engage more in environmental, social and governance activities that foster sustainability and create new value for stakeholders, both financially and non-financially. That way, company value is enhanced and firms move toward sustainable development. By learning this module, students are to understand the importance of CSR, which is in line with corporate governance and financial ethics. 
The subject helps in fostering a healthy lifestyle and promoting ethics in finance, thus indirectly creating more value for the society.