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Avoiding the Black Swan: Barriers to Improving Risk Management

Almost daily, U.S. business journals have chronicled the failure of major corporations to discover, evaluate, and mitigate the serious risks that have crippled the companies and financial markets. The disastrous results felt throughout the economy have given new and sharp meaning to the dire  need for more muscular, comprehensive enterprise risk management (ERM) in corporate America.
This survey, in collaboration with CFO Research Services, is particularly timely for corporate executives at every level.

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Collusion, Conflicts of Interest, and Corruption!

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Investigation Roundtable on January 23, 2019, in Center City Philadelphia - Register Today! CPE/CLE

Investigation Roundtable on January 23, 2019, in Center City Philadelphia

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Board Members Take Note: SEC Chair Clayton Speaks on 2019 Initiatives and Market Risks

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Focus on the Bad Actors! DOJ Outlines Key Policy Revisions Re-Focusing on Individual Accountability

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Robotic Process Automation: Using Technology for Forensic Investigations and Compliance

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Fraud and Related Party Transactions

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Corporate Governance - Commonsense Principles 2.0

Corporate governance is the collection of systems and processes that an organization has in place to prevent or dissuade potentially self-interested persons from engaging in activities detrimental to the welfare of shareholders and stakeholders and helps to promote better overall decision making.

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Compliance Thought Leaders You Should Be Following

Compiling a list of thought leaders in ethics and compliance is fun, but so challenging. There are simply too many thoughtful people in this field — which is itself enormous and wide-ranging — to call out everyone worth following. So below is a small slice of the thinkers in corporate ethics and compliance that I try to follow.

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Today’s General Counsel: White Collar Crooks Share Certain Characteristics

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How Tight is Your Grip on Cash?

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FCPA - Cash, Bribes, and the “Four Eyes Principle”

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Registration is Now Open - Class Size is Limited! Doing Compliance Master Class Training with Tom Fox will be held in New York City on November 12-13 (Two Days), 2018.

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News Release: Baker Tilly Strengthens Growing Forensic Litigation Valuation Services Practice with Addition of Industry Leader Jonathan T. Marks

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FCPA Settlement - Petrobras Board Involved

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Third Party Red Flags

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Perfect Place Syndrome and the 10-80-10 Rule to Ethics

At some point it appears there was a human behavior theory that was possibly applied to fraud risk management and the 10-80-10 Rule to Ethics was born.This theory is based on the assumption that 10 percent of the people are ethical all of the time, 80 percent could behave unethically depending on the situation or the pressure(s) being applied, and 10 percent have no or a severely broken moral compass and will pounce on opportunities to commit fraud.

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Putting the Freud in Fraud - Part Two

While we can't get into the mind of the white collar criminal, we can take a closer look at high-profile individuals who have perpetrated massive fraud at corporations and instances of fraud identified in practice, as well as some research, to help is identify a pattern of similar behavioral elements common to white-collar crooks and cultural elements common to their environments.

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