Our assessment analyses your company's risk profile in seven areas:

• Governance policy and business ethics
  
  
• Risk management processes
  
  
• Ownership structure and control
  
  
• Reporting, audit, and verification
  
  
• Board structure and management
  
  
• Board and executive compensation
  
  
• Investor rights and relations

Our corporate governance assessment measures how well your company is managing corporate governance risks by evaluating the overall effectiveness of your internal governance controls. It answers the question: "Is management running the company in the interests of its investors and other key stakeholders, and disclosing all information relevant to their interests?"

Understanding governance practices
The assessment supports your directors in meeting regulatory requirements to demonstrate due diligence and care. It can help explain where your company's governance structures and practices may diverge from nationally or internationally defined best practice. This prepares you for potential engagement on governance issues with investors and stakeholders (including regulatory bodies) and may even reduce the need for such engagement, saving time and resources on both sides.

Read on for more information about the assessment process.