Corporate Compliance Answer Book


Book Description

Representing the combined work of more than forty leading compliance attorneys, Corporate Compliance Answer Book helps you develop, implement, and enforce compliance programs that detect and prevent wrongdoing. You'll learn how to: Use risk assessment to pinpoint and reduce your company's areas of legal exposureApply gap analysis to detect and eliminate flaws in your compliance programConduct internal investigations that prevent legal problems from becoming major crisesDevelop records management programs that prepare you for the e-discovery involved in investigations and litigationSatisfy labor and employment mandates, environmental rules, lobbying and campaign finance laws, export control regulations, and FCPA anti-bribery standardsMake voluntary disclosures and cooperate with government agencies in ways that mitigate the legal, financial and reputational damages caused by violationsFeaturing dozens of real-world case studies, charts, tables, compliance checklists, and best practice tips, Corporate Compliance Answer Book pays for itself over and over again by helping you avoid major legal and financial burdens.




Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2016


Book Description

Representing the combined work of more than forty leading compliance attorneys, Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2016 helps you develop, implement, and enforce compliance programs that detect and prevent wrongdoing. You'll learn how to: - Use risk assessment to pinpoint and reduce your company's areas of legal exposure - Apply gap analysis to detect and eliminate flaws in your compliance program - Conduct internal investigations that prevent legal problems from becoming major crises - Develop records management programs that prepare you for the e-discovery involved in investigations and litigation - Satisfy labor and employment mandates, environmental rules, lobbying and campaign finance laws, export control regulations, and FCPA anti-bribery standards - Make voluntary disclosures and cooperate with government agencies in ways that mitigate the legal, financial and reputational damages caused by violations Featuring dozens of real-world case studies, charts, tables, compliance checklists, and best practice tips, Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2016 pays for itself over and over again by helping you avoid major legal and financial burdens.




Pension Distribution Answer Book, 2016 Edition


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Pension Distribution Answer Book delivers fast, easy-to-understand guidance for interpreting statutes and regulations and complying with burdensome distribution tax and reporting rules. Stay current with the hundreds of regulations pertaining to qualified plan distributions. Pension Distribution Answer Book guides you through the maze of legal, administrative, and tax requirements for all types of distributions...and delivers the facts you need to solve a problem, answer a question, make a decision, or simply find out what the experts think. This practical reference keeps you current on: Plan disqualification Highly compensated employees Rollover distributions Discrimination rules Transfers Lump sum distributions Loans And much more!




Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2009


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Organized in a convenient Q & A format that concisely addresses your key concerns, CORPORATE COMPLIANCE ANSWER BOOK helps: . Public companies meet the challenges of Sarbanes-Oxley reforms and related SEC rules. Government contractors deal with stringent federal procurement mandates. Health care groups satisfy Medicare, Medicaid, and HIPAA privacy and data security standards. Financial institutions cope with the Bank Secrecy Act and guidelines for electronic fund transfers. Corporations meet labor and employment mandates, environmental rules, lobbying and campaign finance laws, export control regulations and FCPA anti-bribery standardsPacked with insight on how to handle internal investigations, manage and retain company records, and qualify for federal leniency programs, CORPORATE COMPLIANCE ANSWER BOOK includes a bounty of compliance-enabling checklists and case studies




Model Rules of Professional Conduct


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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.







Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance


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An expert's insider secrets to how successful CEOs and directors shape, lead, and oversee their organizations to achieve corporate goals Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance shows senior executives and board members how to ensure that their companies incorporate the necessary processes, organization, and technology to accomplish strategic goals. Examining how and why some major companies failed while others continue to grow and prosper, author and internationally recognized expert Richard Steinberg reveals how to cultivate a culture, leadership process and infrastructure toward achieving business objectives and related growth, profit, and return goals. Explains critical factors that make compliance and ethics programs and risk management processes really work Explores the board's role in overseeing corporate strategy, risk management, CEO compensation, succession planning, crisis planning, performance measures, board composition, and shareholder communications Highlights for CEOs, senior management teams, and board members the pitfalls to avoid and what must go right for success Outlines the future of corporate governance and what's needed for continued effectiveness Written by well-known corporate governance and risk management expert Richard Steinberg Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance lays a sound foundation and provides critical insights for understanding the role of governance, risk management, and compliance and its successful implementation in today's business environment.




Measuring Compliance


Book Description

Compliance, or the behavioral response to legal rules, has become an important topic for academics and practitioners. A large body of work exists that describes different influences on business compliance, but a fundamental challenge remains: how to measure compliance or noncompliance behavior itself? Without proper measurement, it's impossible to evaluate existing management and regulatory enforcement practices. Measuring Compliance provides the first comprehensive overview of different approaches that are or could be used to measure compliance by business organizations. The book addresses the strengths and weaknesses of various methods and offers both academics and practitioners guidance on which measures are best for different purposes. In addition to understanding the importance of measuring compliance and its potential negative effects in a variety of contexts, readers will learn how to collect data to answer different questions in the compliance domain, and how to offer suggestions for improving compliance measurement.




Regulation of Securities: SEC Answer Book, 5th Edition


Book Description

Regulation of Securities: SEC Answer Book, Fifth Edition is your complete guide to understanding and complying with the day-to-day requirements of the federal securities laws that affect all public companies. Using a question-and-answer format similar to that which the SEC has embraced, this valuable desk reference provides concise, understandable answers to the most frequently asked compliance questions, and ready access to key statutes, regulations, and court decisions. Designed for both beginners and seasoned professionals, the volume contains approximately 1,400 pages organized in 23 self-contained chapters. Each chapter covers the basics before moving into the nuanced details, meeting the needs of those who seek a general understanding of a topic as well as those grappling directly with critical issues. Twice-yearly supplements keep the book current in this rapidly evolving field. Whether you are a lawyer, accountant, corporate executive, director or investor, you'll be able to quickly find concise answers to essential questions about the Dodd-Frank Act, Exchange Act registration and reporting, executive compensation disclosure, derivatives disclosure, management's discussion and analysis, audit committee responsibilities, Sarbanes-Oxley, electronic filing, interactive financial data, tender offers, proxy solicitations, insider trading, going private transactions, shareholders' rights, SEC investigations, criminal enforcement, securities class actions, and much more!