To be effective,
ethics audits must be performed by an independent third party.
Step six is to conduct annual
ethics audits, to ensure that an overall program is current and functioning as intended, and that employees across locations and departments are informed and in compliance.
Their responsibilities have expanded significantly to include strategy audits, ERM audits,
ethics audits, operational audits, quality audits, IT audits, supplier audits, and due diligence in mergers and acquisitions.
Initial findings from a fivepart survey show that over the next five years, internal auditors will focus more on corporate governance, ERM, strategic reviews,
ethics audits and the migration to international financial reporting standards, and put much less emphasis on operational and compliance audits, auditing of financial risks, fraud investigations and internal controls evaluation.
His wife, Janean, is a lawyer who conducts
ethics audits of law firms for the State Bar of Virginia.
These include using ethics screening techniques during hiring, including ethics in the performance appraisal process, conducting ethics training, and accomplishing periodic
ethics audits.
A comparable tool can similarly facilitate social workers' efforts to conduct
ethics audits.
Knowing that financial audits sometimes provide a misleading picture of the health of the firm whose books are examined, must we not then assume that
ethics audits would fall similarly wide of the mark?
Other exercises involve customizing a code of ethics to a particular police agency(6) and forming a simulated ethics committee to conduct
ethics audits and to define the ethical principles needed in policing.
Ethics" resources consist mainly of a large collection of websites and a few articles on
ethics audits.
Periodic
ethics audits and enforcement of noted violations of the code;
The AMA/HRI survey found that the best ways of doing this are through ethics surveys, customer complaints and
ethics audits.
