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Job aids
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Commercial terms checklist
Deals are complicated. Help out your transactional team with this simple checklist of when to contact compliance during the deal process. This piece covers the front end: initial conversations between commercial teams. Which, incidentally, is when...
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Is your third party expensing something unusual?
Make spotting red flags involving third-party expenses super easy with this highly visual infographic. This piece includes both obvious red flags like jewelry and art as well as some less-obvious things like water bills and high discounts.
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Contract terms checklist
Want your transactional teams to think like compliance? Show them how with this thorough checklist for key terms required for every company contract. In the hurry to finish a deal, even the sharpest of transactional lawyers can miss important compliance...
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What can you give to a government official?
Based DOJ guidance on the FCPA, this explainer breaks down how to think about what is appropriate to give folks in government. Contrasting examples are used to highlight what are truly acceptable gifts and entertainment when government officials are...
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Who's a Government Official?
Take the mystery out of who is—and who isn’t—a government official with this job aid. Just because someone doesn’t have a regal title or isn't a politician doesn’t mean they’re not a “government official.”...
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Engaging a New Third Party or Business Partner?
Shed light on third-party due diligence with this simple job aid. This easy-to-use guide provides clear steps, ensuring your team knows about—and can plan for—your vetting process before engaging with new vendors, suppliers, contractors,...
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Received a request to transfer data?
What counts as "personal data" to one person might not be to another, which can create major headaches. Use this decision tree to remedy your ills and ensure all your teams have a healthy dose of privacy know-how. In five simple steps, it guides them...
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Do you know your international customers?
Some compliance teams have sophisticated software that checks for sanctions. But those of us who don’t have fancy pants spy-level programs need to do a little more digging to ensure that our international customers are legit. That’s...
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Managing a Joint Venture Partner?
Help your team know how to navigate day-to-day JV issues with this handy guide that hits all the key areas of corruption, trade compliance, conflicts, confidentiality and more—all so your team doesn’t have to do it from memory. It’s...
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Hiring red flags checklist
Make the HR team your new squad with this straightforward checklist for evaluating new hires. Trade, antitrust, anticorruption: all of these can be triggered by hiring the “wrong” person—or at least, by hiring them without telling the...
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Before a service provider starts work
Show your team the basics—and importance—of vetting service providers and obtaining proper documentation before work begins. Whether it be control for anticorruption, fraud, or sanction screening, it’s the same idea: don’t have...
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Insider threat red flags
Educate your employees on what insider threats are, where they come from, and some common red flag behaviors. This infographic kicks things off with a not-so-obvious concept: that insider threats don’t necessarily come from inside the...
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Before a merger or acquisition...
Mergers and acquisitions can be both exciting and terrifying, like base jumping, that long drop on a rollercoaster, or attending a social event for us introverts. While we don’t have a remedy for that weird stomach feeling, we do have a solution to...
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Data Processing Agreement checklist
Everyone tells their teams to do their due diligence, but do they know what that actually looks like? This job aid gives your IT and procurement teams the ultimate vendor contract checklist, covering everything from contract basics to data-processing...
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Interacting with clients and service providers
While treating customers and vendors with respect is the right thing to do, it’s also great for business. Avoid helpline complaints and negative reviews (including on job search sites) by explaining exactly what civility and respect look like when...
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Submitting a Timesheet?
Getting creative at work is usually a good thing, but not when it comes to timekeeping. Incorporate this checklist into the time tracking process, so both your hourly employees and managers are crystal clear on the rules. This way, small adjustments can...
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Our labor standards
You have high standards—labor standards, that is. And you want your suppliers to share these values too. This infographic makes it clear that—when it comes to treating employees with dignity and respect—no one better be lurking...
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Exploring a potential partnership?
This easy checklist gets your business development folks ready to take on new partners the right way. While your deal team is busy working to close the deal on a new partnership, keep potential compliance problems at the fore with this easy-to-follow...
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Are you prepared to present?
Empower your sales staff with this helpful checklist before they meet with prospective customers. Meeting sales prospects in person is critical for a lot of businesses and helps foster relationships, but your sales force needs to be prepared for a...
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Before you send that shipment, make sure it won't come back
This checklist helps sales staff evaluate whether an order is legit—or potentially channel stuffing. The incentive to sell as much product as possible is great for your business … until sales folks get too eager to get stuff out the door...
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Petty cash red flags checklist
Give your managers and finance team a roadmap of proper petty cash procedures. Small amounts of money can create huge problems, but it’s still natural to be tempted to ignore something literally called “petty.” This piece gets your...
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New Account Red Flags
This checklist assists your on-the-ground folks as they determine whether new accounts are legit and viable. There’s no point in making a “sale” when it wasn’t real to begin with. This walks your team, especially the sales folks,...
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Say no to kickbacks
Use this highly visual piece to help your employees recognize corrupt referrals—and what to do about it. Kickbacks come in different forms—suitcases full of cash are (mostly) stuff in movies. This piece drives home that your business...
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We compete for talent
Make sure your team knows "no-hire" agreements are illegal with this graphic reminder. Based on recent DOJ antitrust litigation, this piece explains that antitrust behavior extends beyond products, services, and illegally sharing info. Instead, your...
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