Fighting Corruption - A Corporate Practices Manual

The new demands for better corporate governance pose a major challenge to corporate manageers. Faced with a bewildering maze of new rules and regulations- on accounting, money laundering, conflicts of corporate interest- managers need a no-nonsense guide to cut through the fog of bureaucractic requirements. Fighting Corruption, written by businessmen for businesswomen, is such a tool.

A reference book for our times

Fighting corruption, once at the periphery of corporate concerns, has taken on a new urgency for companies due to events of the last several years:

• The implementation of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials, with 34 countries having ratified the Convention and passed implementing legislation to enforce it;
• Recent corporate scandals in the US and elsewhere that have sharply increased public concerned about corporate governance, accounting and auditing;
• Septemeber 11 and the ensuing campaign against terrorism that have resulted in much intensified anti-money laundering programmes, as well as greater concern about Customs regulations.

The pace of new regulation requires that corporate managers have a practical guide to help them respond to the realities of doing business in the modern age. Fighting Corruption, produced by ICC, offers the tools to do so.

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Answering your questions 

Fighting Corruption answers a host of questions for managers:

• How does a company develop a clear and enforceable code of conduct?
• What steps should a company take to ensure that it is hiring qualified and reputable agents?
• How does one develop an accounting policy with explicit prohibitions against off-the-books or false entries?
• How does a company assess its vulnerability to money laundering and develop a know-your-customer policy?

This vital text, first published in 1999 as Fighthing Bribery, has been fully revised and updated with four new chapters- on extortion, whistleblowers, Customs and small and medium-sized enterprises.

Written by corporate officers who have direct experience in the fight against various kinds of corruption, Fighting Corruption now offers managers guidance on a full spectrum of issues concerning business ethics.