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Jeff Kaplan/Kaplan & Walker LLP jkaplan@kaplanwalker.com SCCE Upper North East Regional Conference May 16, 2014
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Auditing Monitoring ◦ But not all the uses of technology Other forms of checking All through two different scopes ◦ General program ◦ Different risk areas (e.g., anti-corruption) We hope to learn what your respective companies are doing in these areas www.kaplanwalker.com2
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Official expectations ◦ Auditing and monitoring have always been particularly important to the government 1992 Antitrust Division statement The 2010 compliance “half measures” FCPA case As programs mature, understanding (e.g., policies and training) become relatively less important and ensuring (auditing and monitoring) become more so Auditing and monitoring are particularly important for ◦ Global/highly dispersed companies ◦ Those in highly regulated industries ◦ Companies with cultural challenges www.kaplanwalker.com3
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Relationships between relevant C&E categories can be confusing E.g., ◦ Auditing can overlap with program assessment, and with risk assessment ◦ The line between auditing and investigations is not always well marked ◦ Monitoring can overlap with governance and management ◦ Metrics are part of monitoring, but are sometimes discussed separately www.kaplanwalker.com4
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◦ Encouraging reports of suspected violations can be seen as a form of monitoring – but is generally treated as a different animal ◦ Other types of internal controls (e.g., preapprovals) can also be viewed as a form of monitoring – but really serve a different function Does this matter? It can – if people are talking past each other www.kaplanwalker.com5
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The big picture is important – but so is the small one ◦ Companies generally should be moving in the direction of “nano compliance” Location or risk area specific Learning to paint with a narrow brush ◦ Monitoring in particular is a useful vehicle for this www.kaplanwalker.com6
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Differs from auditing in that it is ◦ Less independent ◦ More real time Generally, an under-utilized C&E function Covers a lot of ground, but a major distinction is between monitoring by ◦ Business people – both risk area and general program ◦ Non-audit staff www.kaplanwalker.com7
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Often called “the first line of defense” The most immediate – and least independent –form of C&E checking Risk-area examples include tasking managers to ◦ T&E reviews by direct supervisors ◦ Review invoices of third parties for any indicia of corruption (or violation of other rules) ◦ Review pricing and other activities for any indicia of antitrust violations ◦ Monitoring COIs that have been conditionally okayed www.kaplanwalker.com8
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Challenges to risk area monitoring ◦ Is it informed? ◦ Is it documented? ◦ Making it happen Note that this type of monitoring is often part of larger business monitoring ◦ E.g., of high-risk agents (making sure not only that they are acting properly but that they are doing what you want/pay them to do) www.kaplanwalker.com9
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General program monitoring ◦ Ensuring that employees in the managers BU have taken required training ◦ Seeing how junior managers communicate about C&E to their subordinates Other points about monitoring ◦ Serves to educate business people (learn by doing) ◦ Provides a predicate for C&E-based compensation “Supervisory liability” (meaning internal, not actual legal, accountability) www.kaplanwalker.com10
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What do your companies do to require monitoring by business people ◦ Risk area? ◦ General program? What is your experience with “supervisory liability”? www.kaplanwalker.com11
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These include ◦ Finance ◦ Legal ◦ HR ◦ IS ◦ EH&S ◦ Security ◦ C&E They are seen as non-independent because they may be reviewing their own work www.kaplanwalker.com12
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Anti-corruption ◦ Periodic controls reviews by Finance ◦ C&E reviewing gift registers and third party due diligence files Competition law: Legal department reviewing sales files Employment: ◦ Looking for required postings ◦ Reviewing personnel file EH&S: many examples Risk-area specific ◦ Life sciences “ride-alongs” ◦ Review of trading at financial service firms www.kaplanwalker.com13
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Looking at ◦ Training and communications ◦ C&E concerns reporting ◦ Investigations and discipline ◦ Hiring and incentives ◦ Mostly by the C&E office, but not exclusively Two other forms of checking that are monitoring like ◦ C&E questions in employee engagement survey ◦ C&E questions in exit interviews www.kaplanwalker.com14
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A self check tool (consider adding a geographic or product/service line tool) Note that it would include both business personnel and staff monitoring www.kaplanwalker.com15 Area of lawNature of risk Current monitoring Monitoring to consider adding FCPA Antitrust Etc.
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The “third line of defense” Independent and occasional Includes both internal and external C&E audits are ◦ Sometimes stand-alone ◦ More often part of broader audits Is having C&E part of audit planning process an independence problem? www.kaplanwalker.com16
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Risk areas commonly audited ◦ FCPA ◦ Fraud ◦ Privacy ◦ IP/confidential information ◦ Trade controls ◦ Industry-specific regulated areas Many others Sometimes stand-alone, more often as part of more general audits www.kaplanwalker.com17
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General program ◦ C&E reporting and investigations Flows from Caremark/Stone v Ritter ◦ Employee knowledge of program requirements ◦ Auditing against governance requirements E.g., regional committees A good reason to have charters www.kaplanwalker.com18
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Ensuring sufficient domain knowledge by auditors Ensuring follow up Should audit results be a metric? www.kaplanwalker.com19
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Or discussion www.kaplanwalker.com20
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