Best practices in conducting FCPA / Anti-Bribery Due Diligence
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Who needs to do due diligence on third parties?
Any organisation that sells through channel partners should have a due diligence programme in place, where it conducts proactive integrity analysis on its channel partners prior to engaging them and throughout the life of their engagement with the company.
However, many companies, in their mad scramble to kick off some form of due diligence programme, have not thought through the objectives of the p...
Building effective compliance programmes for third parties
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Third party compliance : not up to scratch
In 2009, a survey conducted by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics of compliance professionals in around 400 companies found that more than half (53 percent) did not distribute their codes of conduct to third parties, such as suppliers, independent contractors, and joint venture partners. What is worse, the study also found that only 26 per cent of the respondents required third parties to certify t...
Policy management & compliance
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Every company relies on the policies it establishes to operate on a daily basis, from keeping product quality consistent, to making sure it abides by all relevant rules and regulations. However, policies are only useful if they are accessible and adhered to by the employees they are targeted towards. This whitepaper discusses how poor technology infrastructure, in the form of old and antiquidated computer intranet networks, can lead to a range of compliance risk for c...
Corporate gifts & entertainment policy
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Managing the offering and receiving of corporate gifts, entertainment and travel has become increasingly important in today’s environment of increasing regulatory oversight. Gifts given with the best of intention can be wrongly perceived and lead to millions of dollars in government fines, as well as loss of potential business. This white paper examines the complexities that companies need to understand when dealing with corporate gifts and entertainment, includ...
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