Corporate governance certification courses, for CS, CFOs and compliance officers
Three practitioner certifications on the corporate-governance stack: the Companies Act 2013 as amended, SEBI LODR + PIT with all thirteen 2023–2026 amendments, and the SEBI BRSR framework for listed-entity sustainability reporting.
Corporate compliance at an Indian listed entity is one interlocking obligation set, not three separate ones. The Companies Act 2013 defines what a company is, how it governs itself and what its Board and auditors must do. The SEBI LODR + PIT Regulations layer the listed-entity disclosure and insider-trading regime on top — Regulation 17 board composition mirrors Section 149 independent-director requirements, Regulation 23 material-RPT approval interlocks with Section 188, Regulation 34(2)(f) BRSR mandate pulls the sustainability framework into the listed-entity ambit.
The three certifications on this page are written for the practitioner side of that stack: the Company Secretary running the compliance calendar, the compliance officer running LODR + PIT filings, the CFO owning the audit committee brief, and the sustainability lead running BRSR disclosures. They are not exam-preparation for CS Foundation, Executive or Professional — they are operational credentials for people who file, defend and audit corporate compliance in India for a living.
For a Company Secretary at a mid-cap listed entity, a common working stack is: the Companies Act + MCA Practitioner as the foundation, the SEBI LODR + PIT Practitioner for the listed-entity overlay, and the ESG + BRSR Practitioner for the sustainability-reporting stack — a natural pairing given BRSR Core is filed under LODR Regulation 34. From FY 2026-27 the Income-tax Act 2025 also enters the picture for the direct-tax side of the same compliance calendar.
Certifications in this domain
Companies Act + MCA Practitioner Certification
The MCA V3 portal, the annual filing cycle, and the Monday-morning job for CS, CA, in-house counsel and founders
SEBI LODR + PIT Practitioner Certification
For the Company Secretary, compliance officer and IR head at a BSE / NSE listed entity who has to file Reg 30 within 12 hours and pass a Reg 24A secretarial audit, not the ICSI exa...
ESG + BRSR Practitioner Certification
BRSR Core assurance-ready reporting for the sustainability lead who has to file it, not the consultant selling it
Questions people ask about corporate governance certifications
Are these an alternative to the ICSI Company Secretary qualification?
No — they are complementary, not alternative. The ICSI CS qualification is a professional entry credential that lets you use the "Company Secretary" designation and act in statutory CS roles. dcomply Academy certifications are practitioner credentials that validate current operational competency in specific compliance frameworks (Companies Act, LODR, PIT, BRSR). Many practising Company Secretaries take our certifications as evidence of specific-framework competency for internal Board reporting and external audit contexts.
Do I need SEBI LODR + PIT if my company is unlisted?
If your company is genuinely unlisted with no plans to list, no. LODR + PIT apply only to entities whose securities are listed or proposed to be listed on a recognised stock exchange. However, if your company is at an IPO-readiness stage — where the compliance officer is being appointed, the code of conduct is being drafted, and the pre-listing UPSI structural database is being set up — LODR + PIT competency becomes essential well before the actual listing date. Many DRHP filings have been delayed because the compliance officer could not answer LODR-adjacent questions.
Is BRSR relevant if I am not a top-1000 listed company?
BRSR is currently mandated for the top-1000 listed entities by market capitalisation, with an assurance-tier BRSR Core carveout that captures the top-150 (subject to SEBI's current amendment schedule). If you are outside those brackets, the mandated reporting is BRSR-lite. However, many mid-cap listed entities voluntarily file the full BRSR because their institutional investors (LIC, foreign FPIs, ESG-focused funds) increasingly ask for it, and because bringing BRSR competency in-house early avoids scramble when your market cap crosses a bracket.