Fcpa Compliance Report

What if you want to take you post-training analysis to a higher level and begin to consider the effectiveness through your return on investment (ROI)? Joel Smith, the founder of Inhouse Owl, a training services provider, advocates performing an assessment to determine ethics and compliance training ROI to demonstrate that by putting money and resources into training, a compliance professional can not only show the benefits of ethics and compliance training but also understand more about what employees are getting out of training (effectiveness). The goal is to create a measurable system that will identify the benefits of training, such as avoiding a non-compliance event such as a violation of the FCPA. Smith admits that calculating legal ROI is very difficult as ethical and compliance behavior is an end-goal and of itself - not necessarily one that everyone feels should be subject to a ROI calculation.  Smith noted, “it is extremely difficult to isolate the training effect to calculate what costs you avoided