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Ethical Advocate Blog

November 24, 2014

The Thanksgiving holiday is approaching in the US, and with it a reminder of the…

November 19, 2014

Ethical Advocate has written before about ethics policies and social media as it relates to…

November 12, 2014

Coming soon, International Fraud Awareness Week offers an excellent opportunity to promote anti-fraud awareness and…

October 29, 2014

Charter schools have taken a beating this year, with allegations of waste, fraud, and (financial)…

October 15, 2014

Do your senior managers support your organization’s ethics hotline and all other components of your…

October 08, 2014

“Compliance programs help prevent companies from committing crimes in the first place. Even if they…

September 17, 2014

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recovered $3.8 billion under the federal False Claims Act…

September 03, 2014

Ethics and fraud hotlines as we know them today began emerging over thirty years ago.…

August 27, 2014

A good ethics policy is worth the time it takes to develop, review, and revise…

August 20, 2014

Organizations with ethics hotlines are more likely to catch fraudulent behavior than are organizations without…

July 30, 2014

It is common for business leaders to think of organizational ethics as a compliance issue,…

July 16, 2014

“Organizations with hotlines were much more likely to catch fraud by a tip, which our…