Anti-Bribery & Corruption

By the end

What you'll build

• Identify bribery and corruption risk in everyday commercial situations, including those involving no cash
• Apply a purpose, timing and value test to a gift, hospitality or sponsorship offer
• Spot red flags in an agent, consultant or distributor and escalate before appointment
• Refuse an improper payment demand and record what happened
• Report a suspicion through the correct internal route and describe the protections that apply

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 41 lessons

1. 01

   What bribery and corruption actually are

   6 lessons
   • Bribery, corruption and the improper advantage test
   • Offering and receiving: both sides of the same offence
   • Public officials and why they carry extra risk
   • Kickbacks, collusion and bid-rigging
   • Corruption that never involves a cash payment
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   The legal landscape, without the jargon

   6 lessons
   • How anti-bribery law can reach across borders
   • Company liability and personal liability
   • Why accurate books and records matter to bribery risk
   • Local law, company policy and applying the stricter of the two
   • Consequences for individuals and for the organisation
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Facilitation payments and demands

   6 lessons
   • Facilitation payments: routine does not mean permitted
   • Telling extortion apart from a bribe demand
   • Safety-first situations and reporting immediately afterwards
   • Pressure points around customs, permits and inspections
   • Scripts and phrases for refusing a demand
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Third parties and intermediaries

   6 lessons
   • Why most bribery risk arrives through someone else
   • Red flags in agents, consultants and distributors
   • Proportionate due diligence before appointment
   • Contract clauses and audit rights that actually help
   • Monitoring a third party after onboarding
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Gifts, hospitality, sponsorship and donations

   6 lessons
   • Testing an offer against purpose, timing and value
   • Timing risk around tenders and pending decisions
   • Travel, training trips and site visits
   • Charitable and political contributions
   • Approval thresholds and the gifts register
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Reporting and living with the policy

   6 lessons
   • Reporting a suspicion when you are not certain
   • What a useful report contains
   • Protection from retaliation
   • Cooperating with an internal investigation
   • Keeping records that would survive outside scrutiny
   • + 1 more lesson
7. 07

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • Bribery vocabulary, matched to what it actually meansmatch pairs
   • Appointing an intermediary in a defensible ordersequence order
   • The words that decide the outcomefill blank
   • Three days at the portscenario
   • Course quizquiz

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How this course works