Bribery and Corruption : How to Be an Impeccable and Profitable Corporate Citizen.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- 1 Noble Cause Corruption -- I Background on Corruption Laws -- 2 A Bit of Dodgy History -- 3 The Main Conventions -- 4 UK and US Regulatory Agencies -- II The Bribery Act 2010 and Friends -- 5 Objective and Limitations -- 6 Main Sections of the Bribery Act -- 7 Enforcement, Penalties and Sentencing -- 8 Other Relevant UK Legislation and Guidelines -- 9 US and Worldwide Legislation and Guidelines -- III The Taxonomy of Corruption -- 10 Introduction to a Universal Problem -- 11 Sectoral Corruption -- 12 The Mechanics of Corruption -- 13 Examples of High-risk Processes and Contexts -- IV Risk Assessment -- 14 The Nature of Risk -- 15 Management and Catalogues -- 16 Analysing Vulnerable Contexts -- 17 Analysing Secondary Risks -- V Exposing Corruption -- 18 Introduction and Background -- 19 Critical Point Auditing -- 20 Manual Tests -- VI Background on Effective Controls -- 21 Introduction on the Nature of Controls -- 22 Control Tools and Misconceptions -- 23 The Inspiring Integrity Campaign -- 24 Standards, Guidelines, Forms and Basic Training -- 25 Due Diligence, Incident Reporting, Contingency Planning and Protection of Information -- 26 Contractual Controls and Personnel Procedures -- 27 Accounting Procedures, Fidelity and Other Insurance -- VII Additional Anti-bribery Controls -- 28 Introduction, Principles and Policies -- 29 Additional Anti-corruption Strategies -- 30 More on High Risk Aspects -- 31 Facilitation Payments, Gifts and Third-party Agents -- 32 Joint Ventures, Acquisitions and Initial Public Offerings -- 33 Some Other Problem Areas -- VIII Internal and Regulatory Investigations -- 34 Background and Strategy to Internal Investigations -- 35 Key Elements and Case-handling -- 36 Regulatory Investigations -- 37 Negotiating Settlements and Going to Court -- Index.

Bribery and Corruption is written by the world's leading practitioners in the fields of fraud prevention, detection and investigation; they have massive practical experience in commercial and governmental sectors. The book exposes the misconceptions, myths and, indeed, corruption of the word bribery and suggests effective solutions that go well beyond simple compliance. It commits to assertive managerial rather than timorous legal solutions to anti-bribery and related laws. It explains how processes can be tested - using automated fraud detection software - to expose current cases of fraud and corruption or to provide assurance that controls are functioning as intended. Over the last 25 years, Mike Comer, occasionally writing with Tim Stephens, has been responsible for some of the most readable and influential books on fraud. Bribery and Corruption is another tour de force, complete, authoritative and yet a great pleasure to read.

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