Fcpa Compliance Report

Today I would like to review some best practices regarding a compliance hotline.  The hotline should be developed and maintained externally. It seems axiomatic that em­ployees tend to trust hotlines maintained by third parties more than they do internally maintained systems. Through the submitting of reports via an external hotline there is a perceived extra layer of anonymity and impartiality compared to a sys­tem developed in-house. A third party provider is also more likely to bring specialist expertise that’s difficult to match within the organization. The hotline supports the collection of detailed infor­mation. As with most everything else, information is power. If a CCO can gather and re­cord information throughout a complaint life cycle, the company will have greater insight into the situation and a company can protect itself more effectively from accusations of negligence or wrongdoing. A hotline reporting system should provide consolidated, real-time access to data across all departments and locati