Keys to an Effective Anti-Corruption, Ethics and Compliance Program

Learning Objectives

• To appraise the importance of training and follow-up.
• To analyze the advantages of ISO 37001 certification and how to get it.
• To assess how to instill ethics from the top of the organization.
• To compare examples of what makes a compliance program effective.
• To integrate compliance and ethics in the organization's values.

Course Description

Despite the advantages of having policies and programs to implement ethical behavior, required compliances, and anti-corruption rules, businesses face numerous challenges. The most challenging aspect of anti-corruption compliance is ensuring that it is integrated into company operations and the overall business strategy. In the same way that security regulations are only effective if they are accepted, understood, and implemented by all, anti-corruption procedures require employees to accept and appreciate their effectiveness in order to ensure appropriate implementation. 

Although talented people with the best intentions design anti-corruption compliance procedures, they are up against audacious individuals who can be very creative at bypassing company rules. It is, therefore, necessary to question our way of addressing the issue on a regular basis. Compliance must evolve constantly to adapt to the ever-changing methods used by criminals.

Businesses are coming under increased scrutiny, both at home and abroad, to ensure that their domestic and foreign operations comply with anti-corruption and anti-bribery legislation. International trends towards tougher legislation and increased enforcement of anti-corruption laws internationally make non-compliance a real risk that companies must address as a business priority. 

There are significant financial, business, and reputational repercussions to not having an anti-corruption policy and effective compliance program in place. These could include criminal charges, hefty fines, and lost revenues. Corruption has widespread economic effects – such as the development and quality of infrastructure – and social effects – like the erosion of trust and threats to national security. 

Beyond the illegal exchange of money, corruption can include the agreement to exchange a bribe, hiding the information through bookkeeping, encouraging employees to seek out unethical agreements, or preventing them from going to the authorities. On a positive note, a shift in the cultural acceptance for corporate corruption is occurring as awareness of the issue spreads globally and corporations embrace a more level playing field on which to do business. 

Robust ethics and compliance program is much more than just policies and documentation. Ethics and compliance must be ingrained in the company culture and fostered throughout a company’s processes and interactions. This Ethics Webinar outlines strategies for creating and maintaining a strong ethics and compliance program that will keep companies safe from corruption and associated risks. 

This Online Ethics CPE webinar covers the following Key Topics:

• Anti-bribery prohibitions.
• What constitutes bribery and corruption? 
• Gifts & hospitalities.
• Consequences of corruption. 
• Anti-corruption training and certifications for employees. 
• Training Executives on Anti-Corruption Laws: Best Practices.
• Advantages of ISO 37001 certification and how to get it.
• Accountabilities and Behaviors – Setting the Tone at the Top.
• Ways that a company can establish and reinforce tone at the top.
• How to Establish a Robust Ethics & Compliance Program.
• How to integrate compliance and ethics in the organization's value.
• Compare examples of what makes a compliance program effective.
• Questions that need to be addressed and documented in order to have an effective and robust Ethics and Compliance Program in an organization.

This online CPE webinar from Marc Tassé provides the best practices, key points, and recommendations to make your programs effective and application smooth. It is valuable for those in charge of internal control, internal audit, or risk management functions of the company.

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Overview

• Fraud Prepetrators

  29 mins
• Avoiding the headlines

  44 mins
• COVID-19 Pandemic lessons learned on ethics and compliance

  66 mins
• Anti-corruption compliance

  114 mins
• Does the standards define bribery?

  146 mins
• Red flags for anti-bribery misconduct or compliance risk

  186 mins
• Red flags for anti-money laundering/anti-terrorism risk

  251 mins
• Ways that a company can establish and reinforce tone at the top

  276 mins
• How to establish a robust ethics and compliance program

  310 mins