Compliance

During the holiday season, organizations give and receive more gifts from customers and vendors. Now is the time for companies to refresh employees’ memories about their company’s gifts and hospitality rules.

A thoughtfully conceived and well-implemented anti-corruption program will produce various categories of alerts or “red flags” that require investigation. An important mechanism of your program is providing ...

I try to avoid New Year’s resolutions because I usually do not stick to them. But the process is good as a way to organize your focus and energy. For Chief Compliance Officers, it is more important than ever to re-examine where they are professionally and set some goals for the year.

CCI today announced the debut of the FCPA Video Training Series hosted by CCI founder Maurice Gilbert and featuring FCPA expert Tom Fox of Tom Fox Law. The series begins today with Episode One, "What is the FCPA," and continues for the next few months with 10 additional episodes.

As the year end approaches, I have been thinking back on the last 11 months and where I have seen the most confusion for companies regarding import and export compliance.

Armed with its revised Green Guides, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to police what it sees as false and misleading environmental claims.

They say that stress induces productivity, but it also leads to burnout, unhappiness and even employee turnover. Stressed workers are more irritable and confrontational. They also miss deadlines more often...

The vast majority of FCPA enforcement actions involve bribery payments made by third parties, as opposed to those made directly by employees or officers.

Reporting wrongdoing at work will never be easy. So why do whistleblowers go ahead?

Sometimes it is easy to overlook the importance of human resources and compliance issues. In fact, human resource departments face significant enforcement and compliance risks. In addition, the head of human resources is an important partner on compliance. If a company suffers from weak compliance programs, its human resource department is sure to be a liability for the company.

I assess the effectiveness of the corporate compliance programs of the organizations I monitor. Interviews of company personnel have proven to be one of the most reliable and effective tools in making this assessment. While many of the people interviewed are chosen randomly from the company's employee roster, others are specifically selected due to their position, role or risk profile.

There is certainly no shortage of significant compliance issues in today’s complex business and regulatory environment. Our global economy has produced opportunities for growth and success that can come with an increased need for governance, oversight and formal corporate compliance. Clifton Gunderson's Jennifer Leary discusses the top five corporate compliance concerns trending today.