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