Day 4 of One Month to a Better Board
Every Board of Directors need a true compliance expert sitting on their Board. Almost every Board has a former Chief Financial Officer (CFO), former head of Internal Audit or persons with a similar ba...
6 Feb 201713min
Day 3 of One Month to a Better Board
Under the US Sentencing Guidelines, the Board must exercise reasonable oversight on the effectiveness of a company’s compliance program. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Prosecution Standards posed ...
3 Feb 201713min
Everything Compliance-Episode 6
Show Notes for Episode 6, the Rolls-Royce Global Corruption Enforcement Action This episode is dedicated exclusively to the Rolls-Royce global corruption enforcement action. Jonathan Armstrong lea...
2 Feb 20171h 2min
Day 2 of 30 Days to a Better Board
What are the obligations of a Board member regarding the FCPA? Are the obligations of the Compliance Committee under the FCPA at odds with a director’s “prudent discharge of duties to shareholders”? D...
2 Feb 201713min
Day 1 of One Month to a Better Board
Case Law As to the specific role of ‘Best Practices’ in the area of general compliance and ethics, one can look to Delaware corporate law for guidance. The case of In Re Caremark International Inc. ...
1 Feb 201713min
Day 30 of 30 Days to a Better Compliance Program
John MacKessy, writing in the Finance Professionals’ Post, in a piece entitled “Knowledge of Good and Evil: A Brief History of Compliance”, noted that the FCPA and Environmental Protection Act (EPA) “...
31 Jan 201713min
Day 29 of 30 Days to a Better Compliance Program
Today is the penultimate day of my 30 days to a better compliance program. Just as compliance programs sprang up, grew and began to evolve and mature in the middle of the last decade; the sophisticati...
30 Jan 201711min
Day 27 of 30 Days to a Better Compliance Program
Employment separations can be one of the trickiest maneuvers to manage in the spectrum of the employment relationship. Even when an employee is aware layoffs are coming it can still be quite a shock w...
28 Jan 201712min
