Erick O. Bell, a Senior Manager at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, presents a detailed internal control checklist that outlines 5 anti-fraud strategies companies can use to deter, prevent, and detect fraud.
News is breaking today that the United States government has slapped a suit against Johnson & Johnson and two of its subsidiaries for allegedly paying kickbacks to nursing homes in an effort to boost sale for a new antipsychotic drug.
According to WeFollow.com, the CCI Twitter account (cci_compliance) is ranked #2 for the terms “compliance” and “governance” in terms of overall influence. Additionally, CCI’s Twitter account is ranked #4 for the term “ethics”.
A few days ago the New York Times posted a terrific article analyzing the tough questions faced by health care companies when it comes to how to handle “employee error and corporate misconduct”. We provide a few excerpts, and then a link to the article itself.
The scandal and investigations involving Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of hedge fund firm Galleon Group, continues to grow and leave more guilty parties in its wake. Today it was announced that Anil Kumar, a former partner at consulting firm McKinsey & Co., is pleading guilty to criminal chargers of conspiracy and securities fraud in connection with insider tips that he provided to Rajaratnam about McKinsey clients.
The Global Ethics Summit leverages the collective expertise of Dow Jones and Ethisphere to provide a conference program featuring an unmatched agenda, editorially driven content and roster of compliance experts.
In a recent Deloitte online poll of business professionals across various industries, 37.5 percent say they are at least as concerned and 18.2 percent say they are more concerned about their company becoming a target of securities litigation as they were two years ago.
This article by Richard Matheny of Goodwin Procter LLP briefly discusses a three-phase approach to the internal investigation of suspected violations of export-controls and economic-sanctions laws.
The Ethisphere Institute, along with partner Corpedia, a leading provider of corporate and institutional ethics training, consulting and risk assessment solutions, today announced the Ethisphere-Corpedia Joint Committee on Business Ethics, a group of leading attorneys specializing in corporate and government ethics and compliance.
by Dan Hurson, senior partner in The Hurson Law Firm LLP, in Washington, D.C. The case for strict enforcement of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 304 requiring CEO payback after restatements caused by “misconduct.”
