Discovering Fraud Before it's Too Late

Top 10 phrases that might indicate a corporate fraud is occurring

i-sight.com

Prevention is so much better than detection when it comes to corporate fraud. Don’t get me wrong, I think detection is great, and sometimes detection can prevent a much bigger fraud from occurring. But you can’t argue with the fact that detecting a fraud means that it’s already in progress, and you may have already lost money.

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Ethics 101

The Lance Armstrong Confession: Lessons in ethics and compliance

Corporate Compliance Insights

As almost everyone in America knows, Lance Armstrong spoke for the first time about his performance enhancing drug use in a two part television event last week on Oprah. On the first night he admitted for the first time that he used performance enhancing drugs during his seven wins at the Tour De France.

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Getting an Ethics Education

Training the liars and cheaters of tomorrow

Slate

A few years ago, Israeli game theorist Ariel Rubinstein got the idea of examining how the tools of economic science affected the judgment and empathy of his undergraduate students at Tel Aviv University.

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How Ethical is Wall Street?

Wall Street short on ethics, report finds

The New York Times

How ethical is Wall Street?

It is a question that has been asked countless times since the financial crisis, especially when scandals like the rate-rigging case at Barclays and prominent insider trading trials expose questionable behavior in the financial industry. A new study offers an answer: Wall Street is not very ethical at all.

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Starbucks, American Express Among World's Most Ethical Companies

World’s Most Ethical Companies – 2012 Edition

Compliance Build

The Ethisphere Institute announced its sixth annual selection of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. One hundred forty-five organizations made the list in 2012 from more than three dozen industries, including 43 headquartered outside the United States.

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