Category: eBooks

A Return to Common Sense

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - August 25, 2016

By white collar defender and former federal prosecutor Michael Volkov, this book looks a the DOJ's latest attempts to deter corporate criminals

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Download a Sample: The Trust Puzzle – How to Keep Your Company on the Ethical High Road

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - July 7, 2016

Frank Bucaro explains how companies are at a high risk for cultivating unethical cultures in the information age, and how not only to avoid them, but how to make a company an example other CEOs can use as a model for their own ethical strategies.

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The Ultimate Guide to IT Audit Readiness

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - February 3, 2016

As if the job of an IT manager or leader was not already challenging enough, today’s IT risk and regulatory environment is constantly increasing in complexity. Alongside this, there is an unprecedented proliferation of business devices, systems and data, creating more ever-changing risks. So how to deal with all of…

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Question Everything: Effective Due Diligence and Third-Party Risk Management

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - January 20, 2016

With almost every FCPA enforcement action involving third party misconduct in one form or another, shouldn’t companies devote more resources than ever to due diligence and third-party risk management systems? There’s no magic formula to implementing an effective system. It just takes two things: commitment and common sense.   Every company…

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Free eBook: Getting Governance Right a Handbook for Today’s CEO and the Board of Directors

Posted by Maurice Gilbert - January 15, 2016

This book brings together expertise on all things Board related, exploring topics from best practices to the benefit of diversity and the Board’s role in reducing risk and improving cybersecurity. In this comprehensive guide, our expert authors explore the top issues plaguing Boards and prescribe actionable solutions.

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Free eBook Download: The Art of the Internal Investigation

Posted by Michael Volkov - July 28, 2015

Conducting an internal investigation in today's risky enforcement environment requires numerous -- if not continuous -- judgment calls. Stakes are high, and answers are never black-and-white. In this free eBook, regular contributor Michael Volkov wields his expertise wisely in this compilation of tactics and expert advice.

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Free eBook download – Reimagining Risk: An Integrated Approach to Risk Management

Posted by Jim DeLoach - July 9, 2015

Author Jim DeLoach explores four themes for implementing enterprise risk management (ERM), noting that executives often ask two questions about ERM: “Where do we start?” and “What do we do differently?” These two questions demand a pragmatic response, which DeLoach provides in this compilation of thought leadership articles.

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Compliance and Ethics: Should One Person Do Both?

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - January 30, 2015

The terms compliance and ethics are so closely related that we sometimes assume the functions not only overlap, but are actually one in the same. The compliance officer in most organizations may also be the ethics officer. While compliance and ethics could be viewed as intersecting circles, there is a…

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Compliance & Ethics Risk Assessment By Jeff Kaplan

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - December 30, 2014

Compliance & Ethics Risk Assessment: Concepts, Methods and New Directions covers an array of risk assessment ideas, methods, practices, tools and noteworthy items of C&E-related history. A compilation of Kaplan’s popular columns for Corporate Compliance Insights, the book supplements and informs C&E risk assessments of all kinds — whether COSO-based…

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If Good Ethics is Good Business, What’s the Problem? By Frank Bucaro

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - August 30, 2014

Ethics is good for business. Research confirms this, and yet ethical lapses, issues, and at times, corporate behavior causes major concerns. Most people will tell you that “business ethics” is a contradiction in terms. “Impossible!” they say. “You have to do everything you can to give customers what they want…

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Free eBook Sample: Lessons Learned on the Audit Trail

Posted by Richard Chambers - June 18, 2014

Read a free sample chapter of Richard Chambers' eBook: Lessons Learned on the Audit Trail.

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The FCPA in 2013: The Year in Review

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - January 27, 2014

2013 was a significant year in FCPA enforcement. Both the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission continued to aggressively pursue FCPA cases and communicate their views on evolving best practices. In addition to the corporate enforcement actions, 2013 saw the greatest number of individual enforcement actions brought since…

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