Accurately Recording "Business Expenses"

A general manager of a subsidiary company in South American explains...

Tags: foreign corrupt practices act, code of conduct, ethics, expenses, fcpa, bribery

Wormy Flash Drive

An employee violates internet security rules by inserting a flash drive...

Tags: it, code, code of conduct, ethics, information security, internet security

Undocumented Contract Sales Terms

An accounting employee is upset at a sales person within her...

Tags: trina , documented, undocumented, contract terms, sales terms, contract

The Blogger

An employee has a personal blog and blogs about confidential company...

Tags: blogging, confidential information, intellectual property, ethics, code of conduct, confidentiality

The Litigation Email

An employee discusses a patent infringement suit internally via email...

Tags: vincent, lawsuit, litigation preparation, patent, patent infringement, communication

A Potential Conflict of Interest

An IT employee gets an all expenses paid trip to a...

Tags: gifts, ethics, code of conduct, gift, conflict of interest, vendor

Lost Flash Drive

An employee loses her flashdrive containing business information while on a...

Tags: jasmine, it, code, code of conduct, ethics, information security

Misusing Intellectual Property

An employee discusses starting his own company and taking his work...

Tags: confidential information, confidentiality, intellectual property, ethics, code of conduct, confidentiality

Price Fixing at the Trade Show

What should an employee do if a competitor starts talking about...

Tags: anti-trust, competitor, ethics, antitrust, code of conduct, corruption

Granting Yourself A "Bonus"

An employee discusses her work trip in New York and tells...

Tags: ehthics, code of conduct, code, misappropriation, gifts, entertainment

A Boondoggle

An employee tells his co-worker how a vendor gives him free...

Tags: vendor, procurement, client, payments, ethics, code of conduct

Duty of Confidentiality

An employee tells her co-worker that she interviewed with a competitor...

Tags: kelly, christy, confidential information, duty of confidentiality, duty of loyalty, document retention

Kickbacks

A manager thanks his employee for referring a contractor and the...

Tags: misappropriation, loyalty, code of conduct, ethics, conflict of interest, gifts

Insider Trading

A mother has lunch with her daughter and discusses confidential company...

Tags: insider information, sec, trading, expert networks, public, stock

Blowing the Whistle

An accounting employee complains that her manager is overstating revenue and...

Tags: code of conduct, ethics, accounting, accounting fraud, retaliation, whistleblower