Analysis of Corporate Governance in Amcor, Aurizon, and Appen Limited

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BUSINESS FINANCE
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
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REPORT 1
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Company overview- Amcor Limited...........................................................................................2
Company Overview- Aurizon Holdings Limited.........................................................................2
Company Overview- APPEN LIMITED.....................................................................................3
Analysis of governance- Amcor Limited........................................................................................3
Ownership structure.....................................................................................................................3
Board of directors.........................................................................................................................4
Incentives.....................................................................................................................................5
Analysis of governance- APPEN LIMITED...................................................................................7
Ownership....................................................................................................................................7
Board of Directors........................................................................................................................8
Incentives.....................................................................................................................................9
Analysis of governance- AURIZON HOLDINGS LIMITED......................................................10
Ownership..................................................................................................................................10
Board of directors.......................................................................................................................11
Incentives...................................................................................................................................11
Risk and return-.............................................................................................................................12
Cost of capital and weighted average cost of capital-...................................................................12
Amcor limited-...........................................................................................................................12
Appen Limited...........................................................................................................................14
Aurizon Limited.........................................................................................................................15
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
References......................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
The Corporate governance is considered as the structure of practices, approaches as well
as procedures utilised for directing and managing the entity. The board of directors of the entity
is a main force affecting the corporate governance. In the following parts governance structure,
risk and return, as well as cost of capital and average cost of capital of three companies namely
Amcor Limited, Appen Limited and Aurizon Holdings Limited is discussed and critically
examined.
Company overview- Amcor Limited
Amcor Limited is international leader in manufacturing as well as making accountable
packing for the foodstuff, beverages, medicinal, personal or home-care, as well as different
products. This company is the packaging organisation. The segments of corporation involve
Amcor Flexibles, Amcor Rigid Plastic, as well as different Investment. The Amcor Rigid Plastic
section makes inflexible plastic container for the beverage range along with foodstuff products,
involving carbonate soft drink, juice, sport drinks, water, beverage based on milk, sauce,
dressing, spirit, beer, spread along with different personal care materials as well as the plastic cap
for the application range. The Amcor Flexible section involves 4 operating sections. These 4
sections include, Middle East & Africa business, Amcor Flexibles Europe, Amcor Flexible
America business, Amcor Flexible Asia Pacific along with Amcor Tobacco Packing. The
different Investments section of the company holds the equity responsible investment in AMVIG
Holdings Limited as well as the joint venture Discma AG. These products involve packing for
the fresh foodstuff like fishes, meat, breads, produces as well as dairy products, along with the
processed foodstuff like snack-food, coffee and ready meal and the coffee (Reuters, 2018a).
Company Overview- Aurizon Holdings Limited
Aurizon Holdings Limited is the publicly listed rail freight organisation in Australia. It
was formerly owned by Queensland Government. The assets of company were shifted to the new
corporation, QR National Limited, in end of 2010 in preparation for this being floated upon

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Australian Securities Exchange. This company is the biggest rail freight organisation of
Australia. Aurizon Holdings Limited is involved in transport based on rail business.
The corporation performs as heavier haul freight railway operator as well as coal’s rail
transporter from mines to the ports for export marketplaces. It is also engaged in the bulk general
as well as containerized freight business and rail service functions (Reuters, 2018b).
Company Overview- APPEN LIMITED
Appen Limited is involved in the provisions related to the data solution as well as service
for the international technical corporations as well as the government organisations. The
corporation runs by the 2 segments. These two segments are language means along with
content’s relevance. The Content’s relevance section renders annotated information utilised in
search technologies (social participant or electronic-commerce) to handle the relevance as well
as correctness of the searched outcomes. The language means section renders information
utilised in the speech recognizer, machinery conversion, speech synthesizer as well as other
machinery learning techniques for the device, involving Internet-related device, in car
automotive system as well as speeches enabled consumers electronic. The solution involves the
search technologies like complete page assessment as well as query classification; language
knowledge, like sentiment analysis, phonetic transcript, speeches recognition training
information, as well as the conversational information; social technologies; crowd resourcing, as
well as the projects management for the international deployment (Reuters, 2018c).
Analysis of governance- Amcor Limited
Ownership structure
It is analysed from the annual report of company that 45.37% institutional ownership of
the company is sufficient for causing larger shares price movement in relation to the substantial
share sell off or acquisition through the organisation, specifically while there are lower levels of
the public share existed on a marketplace for trading. Even though the company has the higher
institutional ownership, that stock’s move, in short term, and are more usually connected to the