Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Specific
The Board should not be chaired by the Chief Executive Officer. If there will be
nobody to observe the actions of the CEO, it'll give the latter the chance to
commit fraud.
Measurable
Legal division of the corporate should be strong and active. Further, lawyers
should be consulted on most matters to supply employees job protection, if they
revert to whistle blowing.
The company must increase the experience and depth of its financial
management and accounting personnel.
Review, monitoring and oversight of the worldwide units to be increased.
Achievable
The top management should also attempt to ensure that realistic targets are set
for the lower management. If the targets seem to idealistic, the pressure may
encourage management to report a false picture.
Relevant
To try to enhance the employees’ ethical values and encourage them to act
responsibly by the time fraudulent activities come to their notice, the company’s
organizational culture should even be made consistent throughout the firm.
The company should make sure that all the external auditors are given the data
what they require, and these external auditors should be independent of the
company’s influence.
The company must implement procedures and controls to review, monitor, and
maintain book of account accounts.
Significant improvement has to be made in segregation of duties, responsibilities
and management review controls.
Time-based