These are some of the compliance-related stories that recently caught my eye.
The NFL’s True Problem: Misplaced Priorities Trumping Ethics & Compliance by Matt Kelly in Compliance Week
Contrary to what you might believe lately, the National Football League does have an ethics & compliance program. What’s more, the program actually looks pretty good.
Except, of course, for that small bit about deciding to have high standards in the first place.
Is Funny Really the Right Tone for your Compliance Program? by Joel A. Rogers in Communicating Compliance
For the past few years the debate has raged: Is it OK to use humor to communicate compliance? What sparked this dialogue was a series of very funny compliance videos produced by one of the world’s premiere comedy brands. These guys know humor and many of those videos have been genuinely funny.
To Be Clear, SEC Reviewers Want Filings in Plain English, Period by Theo Francis in the Wall Street Journal
Meet the stock market’s punctuation police. Corporate securities filings are plagued by some of the world’s most impenetrable prose, but it isn’t for lack of effort. Every year, SEC lawyers and accountants review several thousand of the more than half-million documents that companies file with the agency. And while they are primarily on the prowl for accounting inconsistencies and breaches of securities regulations, they also chase down typos, sentence fragments, jargon, puffery and sloppy punctuation.
Compliance, groundskeepers, and chalk lines by Jason B. Meyer in LeadGood
So as I raked, I wondered: is there a parallel between the Compliance Officer and the Groundskeeper?
I mean, compliance is in large part about winning while staying inside the lines. But for an organization, who paints those lines?