Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Fcpa) Compliance

This course offers guidelines to recognizing, understanding and dealing with bribery, corruption and compliance.

What you'll learn
Identify what corruption is and how to recognize it.
Recognize red flags and other warning signs pointing to corrupt practices.
Identify steps that you can take to better foresee your global corruption risks.
Articulate the need for ongoing risk assessments and review.
Identify why third-party due diligence can make or break your program.
Requirements
Prerequisite: Exposure to regulatory compliance
Advanced Preparation: None
Description
Bribery and corruption damages lives, reputations, and businesses. Yet in many countries, bribery is a regular–even accepted–business practice. The direct victims of bribery include businesses that lose out unfairly because of corrupt practices, and on a wider scale, governments and society as a whole.
This course takes an in-depth look at the causes of bribery and corruption, how to recognize red flags, and what companies should consider and include in their compliance programs to ensure that their international partners, agents, consultants, and subsidiaries comply with the rule of law.
This course covers:
Keys to recognizing, understanding and dealing with corruption.The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and how to ensure compliance.How other countries fight corruption, including the U.K’s Anti-Bribery Act and the OECD’s ‘Anti-Bribery” Convention.If you would like Continuing Education Credit (e.g. CPE, CE, CPD, etc.) for this course, it is available if you take this course on the Illumeo dot com platform under course title: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Compliance. Illumeo is certified to provide CPE in over two dozen different professional certifications covering finance, accounting, treasury, internal audit, HR, and more. However, in order to receive CPE credit the courses must be taken on an ‘approved-by-the-governing-body’ CPE platform, and for over two dozen corporate professional certifications, that is the Illumeo platform. Go to Illumeo dot com to learn more.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to FCPA

Lecture 2 Corruption and The Law

Lecture 3 How Others Fight Corruption

Lecture 4 How Others Fight Corruption Cont.

Lecture 5 How Do You Recognize Corruption?

Lecture 6 Compliance/Bribery Red Flags

Lecture 7 A Practical Compliance Checklist

Lecture 8 FCPA Checklist

Section 2: Supporting Materials

Lecture 9 Slides: FCPA

Lecture 10 FCPA Glossary/Index

Section 3: Review and Test

Anyone interested in regulations or compliance