CCO™- Certified Compliance Officer
Benefits Of Attending:
·The ability to use the designation CCO™ on your business card and resume.
·2-years membership to the AAFM professional body.
·Access to the AAFM risk management network and body of information online.
·Experience of a leading finance expert from the American Academy of Financial Management.
·Membership to the only professional body recognised by the AACSB, the world's leading collection of business schools.
·Preferred access to education centres in USA, UK, Europe, Asia, Middle-East and Latin America.
·Access to the AAFM international journal published online.
·1- Years membership to the MFTC professional body.
CCO™ Course Overview:
Certified Compliance Officer is a management programme designed to teach a practical understanding of regulatory compliance needs. The programme covers eight major subject areas and utilises a variety of training techniques. The key areas of the curriculum include understanding the regulatory environment, who is responsible for compliance, the role of corporate governance and ethics in compliance programmes, and the implementation of compliance programmes. The emphasis will be on practical and pragmatic approaches, rather than theoretical.
Programme Objectives:
The goal of this programme is to provide Compliance Officers and Managers with skills that can be immediately used upon return to the organisation. You will learn to appreciate the extent to which organisations and their public officers are exposed to the ever-increasing regulatory environment, how to identify the compliance issues that have the most significance for you and how to introduce a compliance management programme within your organisation.
After attending this five day Executive Programme, you will be able to:
·Define the meaning of compliance for your organisation and be capable of developing an organisational response to its demands
·Know what drives your compliance exposure both at home and abroad
·Understand the risk consequences of noncompliance
·Appreciate the relationship between corporate governance and compliance, including the market expectation of that relationship
·Understand the implications of Sarbanes Oxley for corporate accountability and ethical behavior
·Understand how to produce a corporate compliance programme tailored to your own organization
·Learn how to optimize organizational structure for compliance
Who Should Attend?
·Directors and Senior Managers
·Risk Managers
·Legal Advisers and Lawyers
·In-House Corporate Counsel
·Auditors and Audit Managers
·Compliance Directors
·Managers and Officers
·Financial Analysts
·Internal Auditors
Programme Timings:
Attendance will begin at 08.00 AM on Day One, The programme commencing promptly at 08:30 each day. There will be two short breaks each day and the sessions will conclude at 14.30 with lunch..
Programme Outline:
Day One:
Introduction To Compliance
·What is corporate compliance?
·Who is responsible for managing it?
·What are the benefits of its introduction?
·Fostering a culture of accountability
The Regulatory Environment And The Role Of Regulators
·Regulatory drivers
·A variety of legal obligations and due diligence
Day Two:
The Regulatory Environment And The Role Of Regulators Continued
·International responses to the problems of money laundering economic crime, cyber-sabotage and terrorism
·Noncompliance and its ramifications
Compliance And The Role Of Corporate Governance
·What is governance?
·The corporate constitution and governance structure
·Duties and responsibilities of directors
·Protection of stakeholder interests
Day Three
Compliance And Business Ethics
·What is ethics?
·Ethics and corporate accountability: Sarbanes-Oxley
·Benefits of a commitment to sound business ethics.
·Corporate ethics guidelines
Developing A Corporate Compliance Programme
·Code of conduct
·Policies and procedures
Day Four:
Developing A Corporate Compliance Programme Continued
·Best practice principles
·Monitoring and auditing
Implementation Of Corporate Compliance
·Implementation requirements
Case studies will be used to demonstrate how organizations have implemented compliance programmes.
Day Five:
The Corporate Compliance Function
·The location of the compliance function
·Integration or independence of the compliance function
·An optimal compliance architecture
·The Compliance Officer
Issues In Compliance
·The demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
·Fraud and corruption control
·International money laundering
·Whistleblower programmes and the law
Why This Particular Executive Programme?
Creating a culture of compliance is an important risk management strategy. Recent corporate collapses have heavily focused on the need for good corporate governance and an effective compliance programme is an integral part of this structure. In addition to this, on satisfactory completion of the programme you will receive certification from the internationally recognised financial association, the American Academy of Financial Management.
This certification will entitle you to use the formal designation Chartered Compliance Officer (CCO) on your resume and business cards. This intensive programme will provide a blueprint for compliance professionals to follow to ensure that the risk profile of your organisation is limited by a thorough understanding of your regulatory environment
Why Compliance Management?
In many financial markets, a formal compliance management system is not only recommended, but required by the regulatory community and by good corporate governance principles. Since recent news of financial misreporting by firms like Enron, Worldcom, Xerox, etc, the pressure on corporations to more transparently manage their compliance exposures is mounting.
While some may observe that such regulatory requirements have not yet made their way to the Middle-East, it is clear that Middle-East enterprises operating globally must adhere to such guidelines. This programme also represents an unrivalled opportunity for regional organisations to prepare themselves for the arrival of more rigorous.
