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Intermediate

Practice Drills: Identifying Corporate Governance Red Flags

A practice-first companion to Corporate Governance: Evaluating Management Quality. You already know what good governance is supposed to look like; this course makes you find the bad kind in real filings. Working with shareholding patterns, related party disclosures, board and auditor announcements, SEBI orders and exchange filings on NSE, BSE and Screener.in, you will build a governance red flag scorecard and drill it flag by flag: pledging and creeping dilution, money moving to group companies, weak boards, auditor exits, and management churn. The course closes with full drills that score companies side by side, replay the signals ahead of real Indian governance failures, and decide what to do when the flags show up in a stock you already own. Built for experienced retail investors, mutual fund investors and salaried professionals who want a repeatable governance check before they buy, or before they trust a fund that does.

Corporate GovernancePromoter BehaviourRelated Party TransactionsBoard and Auditor SignalsSEBI and Exchange Disclosures

MODULES

5

DURATION

4 Hours

TRACK

Forensic Accounting & Compliance

What You'll Master

Locate every governance disclosure that matters in NSE and BSE filings, annual reports and Screener.in

Build and apply a weighted governance red flag scorecard to any listed company

Read shareholding patterns for pledging, promoter selling, warrants and creeping dilution

Trace related party transactions, group company loans and corporate guarantees through the notes to accounts

Treat director exits, auditor resignations and CFO or company secretary churn as signals

Interpret SEBI orders, exchange penalties and credit rating actions, and decide whether to hold, trim or exit

Access Level

LEARNER

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Everything included

Full Text Playbooks

Actionable Exercises

Mobile Reading Mode

Lifetime Updates

Curriculum Breakdown

Chapter 1: Setting Up the Drill

2 Lessons

What Governance Red Flags Look Like and Where Indian Companies Disclose Them10 min read

Drill: Building Your Governance Red Flag Scorecard13 min read

Chapter 2: Promoters and Ownership

3 Lessons

Drill: Reading the Shareholding Pattern for Pledging, Dilution and Promoter Selling13 min read

Drill: Promoter Pay, Royalty Payments and Links to Private Group Companies12 min read

Drill: Warrants, Preferential Allotments and Creeping Dilution12 min read

Chapter 3: Related Parties and Capital Allocation

3 Lessons

Drill: Tracing Related Party Transactions Through Notes and Shareholder Resolutions14 min read

Drill: Loans to Group Companies, Corporate Guarantees and Unexplained Investments13 min read

Drill: Capital Allocation That Favours Promoters Over Minority Shareholders12 min read

Chapter 4: Board, Auditors and Disclosures

4 Lessons

Drill: Testing Board Independence, Director Tenure and Resignation Letters12 min read

Drill: Auditor Changes and Resignations as Governance Signals12 min read

Drill: CFO and Company Secretary Churn, Delayed Filings and Exchange Queries11 min read

Drill: Reading SEBI Orders, Exchange Penalties and Credit Rating Actions12 min read

Chapter 5: Full Practice Drills

3 Lessons

Full Drill: Scoring Two Companies From the Same Sector16 min read

Full Drill: Spotting the Signals Before a Governance Blow-Up16 min read

Full Drill: What to Do When Red Flags Appear in a Stock You Own14 min read