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Compliance Basics


Do You Know The Risks Posed by Your Agents and Contractors?
New Complimentary Guide Helps You Manage Third Party Risk More Effectively

Your third party’s actions on your behalf are, to a significant extent, your responsibility, just like those of your permanent employees. But, too often, companies don’t have adequate procedures in place for assessing prospective third party relations, or auditing and monitoring their current agents and contractors.

To help you manage this risk more effectively, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics has just published Third Party Essentials: A Reputation/Liability Checkup When Using Third Parties Globally. Written by noted compliance expert Marjorie Doyle, this complimentary brochure includes a checklist to test the health of your organization’s third party controls.

Third Party Essentials is available at no charge. Download a complimentary copy here. It’s the first step to reducing your third party risk. Click Here for a Free Copy

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A Compliance & Ethics Program on $1 a Day:
How Small Companies Can Have Effective Programs

By Joseph E. Murphy, CCEP

Contrary to popular belief, small companies can develop a compliance program very affordably. In this short, insightful brochure you’ll find practical ideas for helping you build an effective compliance and ethics program. And, none of them will break the bank.

Download the brochure to learn how simple it can be to build a compliance program at a small company. And, if you’re at a medium or large company, the brochure can help stimulate new ideas for your compliance program as well. Click here for a free copy 

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Spanish: Programa de ética y cumplimiento de normas por un dólar por día:
De qué manera las pequeñas empresas pueden tener programas efectivos

French: Un programme de conformité et d'éthique pour un dollar par jour:
comment les petites entreprises peuvent mener des programmes efficaces


“How to Sell” An Effective Compliance & Ethics Program

If you have to”make a case” for a compliance and ethics program in your organization this new site contains valuable information and resources that will help you to advocate the benefits of an effective compliance program and to gain the support you need from management and others. Included are a number of tools to help you with this task: support materials, Power Points, statistics, and references to other sources.

“Let’s Do It Right”  

What Can the CEO do to Promote Compliance & Ethics

What the CEO Can DO presentation

Selling Compliance (and the Importance of Your Job) to Management

Reasons For A Strong compliance & Ethics Program

Avoiding the Big Legal Stick

Cost of Corporate Fraud far Outweighs Cost of Legal Compliance


Defining the Role of the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer (CECO)

By the  Ethics Resource Center (ERC), and a working group of the executive directors of ERC, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG), and the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE). click here for more.


 Ethics Resource Center Paper

Leading Corporate Integrity: Defining the Role of the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer


Metcalf & Eddy Settlement
This is a FCPA civil settlement between the United States of America and Metcalf & Eddy. Metcalf & Eddy’s agreement in this settlement was to institute an FCPA Compliance Program. This case is considered an important resource guide to what the government expects in compliance programs pertaining to FCPA. Click here to download the PDF.


U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Revisions:
Effective Compliance and Ethics Programs

Click here to download the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines revisions regarding an effective compliance and ethics program.


The Thompson Memo:
Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations

Click here to download the Thompson Memo.


The McNulty Memorandum
The McNulty Memorandum, recently released by the DOJ, is the new corporate prosecution policy for business organizations.

Click here to view: "Prepared Remarks of Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty at the Lawyers for Civil Justice Membership Conference Regarding the Department's Charging Guidelines in Corporate Fraud Prosecutions,"

Click here to download the McNulty Memorandum
(NOTE: 8 MB PDF file).


"Caremark" Decision
The Caremark case is often cited for the proposition that directors may face personal liability for failing to adopt and implement a corporate compliance plan. The case stopped far short of that holding, but has been cited so often that it may turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Click here to download the Caremark decision.


Compliance Requirements: Rules and Standards

SEC puts out for public comment rules of internet availability of proxy material
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Additional Form 8-K disclosures: Accelerated Filing Date 3/16/04
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XBRL Voluntary Financial Reporting Program on the Edgar
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Postponement: Final Phase-In for Accelerated Filing
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The FASB proposal requiring companies to recognize the cost of employee stock compensation in financial statements
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The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted changes to rules regarding various processes regulated under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933
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Overview of the U.S. Sentencing Commission and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
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Executive Compensation Disclosure Proposed SEC Rule: Proposed amendments to the Executive Compensation disclosure requirements
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Executive Compensation Disclosure: Final adopted amendments to the Executive Compensation disclosure requirements
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Program Evaluation

Evaluating and Improving a Compliance Program

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