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About

Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption (ABAC) training helps organizations and individuals prevent, identify, and respond to bribery and corruption risks while promoting ethical business conduct and regulatory compliance. It provides practical guidance on recognizing improper payments, managing conflicts of interest, dealing with third parties, and complying with applicable anti-corruption laws and organizational policies.
This Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption (ABAC) Training Course & Certification provides essential knowledge on anti-bribery principles, corruption risks, legal and regulatory requirements, gifts and hospitality, facilitation payments, third-party risk management, reporting concerns, internal controls, investigations, and ethical decision-making. Upon successful completion, learners receive a certification demonstrating their understanding of anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance and best practices.

Who Should Enrol?

  • Employees at all levels seeking anti-bribery and anti-corruption awareness
  • Managers, Supervisors, and Team Leaders
  • Compliance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit Professionals
  • Procurement, Purchasing, and Supply Chain Personnel
  • Sales, Marketing, and Business Development Teams
  • Third-Party Representatives, Agents, and Contractors
  • Human Resources and Corporate Governance Professionals
  • Anyone responsible for maintaining ethical business practices and compliance

What you will learn

Understand the principles of anti-bribery and anti-corruption, key legal requirements, and the risks associated with unethical business practices.

Learn the roles and responsibilities of employees, managers, business partners, and organizations in preventing bribery and corruption.

Develop knowledge of gifts and hospitality, conflicts of interest, facilitation payments, third-party due diligence, and reporting mechanisms.

Gain understanding of compliance controls, investigations, whistleblowing procedures, and best practices for maintaining an ethical and transparent business environment.

Course Syllabus

  1. What Is Bribery?
  2. Corruption Is Broader Than Bribery
  3. Bribery vs Related Misconduct — Knowing the Difference
  4. Common Schemes in Commercial Dealings
  5. Schemes Involving Public Officials + Structures
  6. The Hidden Agent: How a 'Consultancy Fee' Became a Corporate Crime
  7. The Cost of Getting It Wrong
  8. Four Dimensions of Damage
  9. Rolls-Royce: A £671m Lesson in Legacy Conduct
  10. A Web of Extraterritorial Laws
  11. What ISO 37001 Is — and Is Not
  12. The Structure: Clauses 4–10 (Annex SL High-Level Structure)
  13. Design Logic of the Standard
  14. Why Organisations Implement ISO 37001
  15. Managed System vs Paper Policy
  16. Where the ABMS Sits in Governance
  17. Tone From the Top — Made Operational
  18. Six Principles Behind Adequate Procedures (MoJ Guidance)
  19. Mapping the Six Principles to ISO 37001 Clauses
  20. One System, Not Another Silo
  21. Standalone ABMS vs Integrated ABMS
  22. The Road to ISO 37001 Certification
  23. Choosing and Working with a Certification Body
  24. Procurement Pressure: Why a Mid-Size Manufacturer Sought Certification
  25. Who Bribes — and Who Gets Bribed?
  26. Inbound Bribery: When Your People Are the Target
  27. The Settlement Era: Why Programmes Are Examined
  28. The Documentation Pyramid
  29. Certification: Myths vs Reality

  1. What Clause 4 Actually Requires
  2. Why Context Comes First
  3. Running a Context Analysis
  4. Structure, Strategy and People
  5. Culture, Controls and Track Record
  6. From Internal Factor to Risk Implication
  7. Markets, Sectors and Counterparties
  8. Geography, Politics and Regulation
  9. Using Country-Risk Data Credibly
  10. Sector Exposure Snapshots
  11. New Market, Old Methods: A Context Failure
  12. Identifying Stakeholders and Their Requirements
  13. Stakeholder Register — Worked Example
  14. What a Scope Statement Must Decide
  15. Sound Scope vs Risky Scope
  16. Five Steps to a Defensible Scope
  17. Scoping a Group: The Holding-Company Dilemma
  18. Documenting Boundaries Without Loopholes
  19. Establishing the System Itself
  20. Where Context Evidence Comes From
  21. Layering the Legal Map Onto Your Business
  22. Country Risk Tiering — A Worked Model
  23. Politically Exposed Persons and State-Owned Entities
  24. Route to Market Shapes the Risk
  25. A Practical Stakeholder Method
  26. Extraterritoriality Is Routine, Not Exotic
  27. Generic vs Organisation-Specific Context
  28. Regulated Industries: Pharma + Medical Devices
  29. Refresh Triggers, Owners and Evidence

  1. What Clause 5 Actually Requires
  2. What the Governing Body Must Actually Do
  3. What Top Management Must Demonstrate
  4. From Tone to Evidence — A Working Cycle
  5. Visible Commitment vs Lip Service
  6. The Override: How One Signature Undid a Programme
  7. Who Owns What — Governing Body, Executives, Compliance
  8. Reporting to the Board That Actually Informs
  9. Why Personal Accountability Concentrates Minds
  10. Mandate of the Anti-Bribery Compliance Function
  11. Four Pillars the Auditor Tests
  12. Reporting Lines That Preserve Independence
  13. The Three Lines Model Applied to Bribery
  14. What Every Manager Owes the System
  15. Function Spotlights: HR, Finance, Procurement
  16. What Clause 5.2 Requires the Policy to Say
  17. Lifecycle of a Living Policy
  18. A Policy That Works vs A Policy That Decorates
  19. Designing Delegation That Cannot Be Gamed
  20. Extract From a Working DoA Matrix
  21. Committees, Cadence and Escalation
  22. Escalation Path for a Serious Allegation
  23. Building a Culture That Refuses Bribery
  24. Speak-Up Health Is Measurable
  25. Setting Objectives Leadership Can Be Held To
  26. Audiences, Messages and Proof
  27. Clause 5 in a Small or Mid-Size Organisation
  28. Centralised vs Local Compliance Models

  1. What Clause 6 (with 4.5) Actually Requires
  2. Why Everything Hangs Off the Assessment
  3. Six Steps, Repeated and Evidenced
  4. Surfacing Risks People Already Know About
  5. Three Lenses That Catch Different Risks
  6. Fields a Defensible Register Carries
  7. Writing Risk Statements That Earn Their Keep
  8. Looking Inward: Internal Risk Factors at Work
  9. Looking Outward: External Factors at Work
  10. A Working Taxonomy of Business Associates
  11. Intermediary Red Flags Your Assessment Should Encode
  12. Where Buying Risk Concentrates
  13. Where Selling Risk Concentrates
  14. Applying Country Tiers Inside the Scoring
  15. Third Parties: The Statistic That Should Anchor Scoring
  16. Criteria, Scales and the Inherent/Residual Discipline
  17. Inherent vs Residual — Why Both Numbers Matter
  18. From Ratings to a Plan Leadership Signs
  19. Extract From a Treatment Plan
  20. Clause 6.1 Opportunities: The Improvement Half
  21. Documenting the Assessment for Audit and Defence
  22. Refresh Triggers and Cadence
  23. A Register That Works vs A Register That Performs
  24. From Risk Register to Operational Controls
  25. Facilitating the Risk Workshop Well
  26. Data Sources That Sharpen the Register
  27. Three Assessment Pitfalls That Recur Everywhere
  28. Who Approves, Who Challenges, Who Relies

  1. What Clause 7 Actually Requires
  2. Planning Resources You Can Defend
  3. Three Resource Pillars
  4. Defining Competence Beyond the Compliance Team
  5. Competence Matrix — Extract
  6. Clause 7.2.2: Controls Inside the Employee Lifecycle
  7. The Competence Cycle
  8. Designing Training That Changes Decisions
  9. Role-Based Training Matrix — Extract
  10. Training That Works vs Tick-Box Training
  11. What Clause 7.3 Says Everyone Must Know
  12. Measuring What Training Actually Changes
  13. Internal Communication That Reaches People
  14. External Communication and the Supply Chain
  15. Communication Plan — Extract
  16. What Clause 7.5 Requires You to Control
  17. Document Control Lifecycle
  18. Retention Schedule — Extract
  19. Records as Evidence of Compliance
  20. Onboarding: Authority Follows Readiness
  21. Campaign Formats That Keep the Topic Alive
  22. Documents the Standard Explicitly Requires
  23. Common Clause 7.5 Nonconformities — and Cures
  24. Central LMS vs Local Delivery — Use Both
  25. Building the Annual Training Calendar
  26. Training and Attestations Beyond Your Payroll
  27. Coverage Numbers Worth Reporting
  28. Keeping Competence When People Leave

  1. What Clause 8 Actually Requires
  2. Turning the Risk Register Into Daily Process
  3. Principles That Make Diligence Due
  4. A Defensible DD Methodology
  5. Diligence Depth by Risk Tier
  6. Personnel and Transaction Diligence
  7. Closing the Payment Paths
  8. Control Catalogue — Extract
  9. Integrity in the Buying Cycle
  10. Sales-Side and Contractual Controls
  11. Anti-Bribery Contract Clause Checklist
  12. Principles Before Thresholds
  13. Worked Threshold Matrix — Illustrative
  14. The Decision Flow Everyone Can Run
  15. Defensible vs Indefensible — Quick Contrast
  16. Generosity Without Inducement
  17. Declaring and Managing Competing Loyalties
  18. Three Conflict Patterns to Police
  19. From First Contact to Clean Exit
  20. Payment + Performance Red Flags
  21. Channels People Will Actually Use
  22. Buying Companies Without Buying Their Conduct
  23. Integration Control Milestones
  24. Controls Earn Their Keep
  25. The Demand Nobody Budgets For
  26. Demand Response Protocol
  27. Subsidiaries: Same Standard, Local Fit
  28. Controlled Entities vs Non-Controlled Associates

  1. What Clause 9 Actually Requires
  2. Deciding What Deserves Measurement
  3. KPI Catalogue — Leading and Lagging
  4. Designing KPIs That Cannot Be Gamed
  5. KPI Catalogue — Leading and Lagging
  6. Designing KPIs That Cannot Be Gamed
  7. Why Leading Indicators Earn the Budget
  8. Three Streams That Feed the Dashboard
  9. Analytics Techniques That Find Bribery Patterns
  10. Analytics Use-Case Catalogue — Extract
  11. Standing Up Monitoring in Five Moves
  12. What the Standard Asks of Your Auditors
  13. The Audit Cycle, Run Properly
  14. Sample Annual Audit Programme
  15. Audits That Protect vs Audits That Perform
  16. Inputs That Make Review Worth the Hour
  17. A Working Review Agenda
  18. The Two Reviews Above the Review
  19. Judging Whether Controls Actually Work
  20. Data Quality: The Unglamorous Foundation
  21. Source Systems and Their Owners
  22. Reading Movement, Not Snapshots
  23. Three Outputs, Three Audiences
  24. From Raw Data to Leadership Decision
  25. Comparing Inside and Out Without Fooling Yourself
  26. Self-Assessment vs Independent Assessment
  27. Coverage Maths Leadership Should See
  28. Exercising the Audit Rights You Negotiated
  29. Internal Assurance vs Certification Surveillance
  30. The Monitoring Year at a Glance

  1. What Clause 10 Actually Requires
  2. What Counts — and Where It Surfaces
  3. Sources and Typical Findings
  4. Routing the Signal Correctly
  5. From Signal to Lane in 48 Hours
  6. Principles That Make Findings Stand
  7. Three Building Blocks of a Sound Case
  8. Privilege, Data and Cross-Border Care
  9. The Investigation Plan — Required Fields
  10. Running the Case End-to-End
  11. Consequences That Hold Up and Teach
  12. Sound Case vs Compromised Case
  13. From 'Who' to 'What Let This Happen'
  14. Tools That Fit Bribery Cases
  15. Five Whys — Worked Example
  16. Cause Families and Their Corrective Themes
  17. Planning Fixes That Stick
  18. CAPA Record — Required Fields
  19. Acting Before the Event Next Time
  20. Proving Actions Worked
  21. Keeping the CAPA Register Honest
  22. Correction vs Corrective Action — Keep Them Straight
  23. Repeat Findings: The System's Report Card
  24. Institutionalising What Incidents Teach
  25. Broadcast Formats That Land
  26. Improvement as a Standing Process
  27. Strengthening the Organisation, Not Just the System

  1. Benefits Worth the Effort — Stated Honestly
  2. Certification Timeline — Typical Mid-Size Organisation
  3. Auditing Yourself Before Anyone Else Does
  4. From Findings to a Plan Leadership Signs
  5. Workstreams and Their Typical Contents
  6. Sizing the Lift
  7. Building the Evidence Pack Auditors Expect
  8. Internal Audit and Management Review — Done First
  9. The Readiness Audit: What Actually Happens
  10. The Certification Audit: Surviving Contact
  11. Common ISO 37001 Nonconformities — Pre-Check Yourself
  12. The Annual Visits That Keep the Certificate
  13. Certified and Alive vs Certified and Decaying
  14. Continual Improvement After Certification
  15. Certification-Body Selection Criteria
  16. Help That Builds vs Help That Substitutes
  17. A Typical Audit Week, Day by Day
  18. What Auditors Pull — and Why
  19. Sampling Rules for Groups
  20. Three Roles That Make Hosting Smooth
  21. The Formal Mechanics, Done Calmly
  22. From Closing Meeting to Closed Finding
  23. Cost Lines to Plan — Indicative Categories
  24. Certification Is Mainstream, Not Exotic
  25. Certifying 37001 Alongside 9001 / 37301
  26. Accredited vs Unaccredited Certificates
  27. Year Three: What Changes
  28. Communicating Certification Without Tripping

  1. Pharma + Life Sciences: Scheme Patterns and Controls
  2. Manufacturing + Supply Chain: Scheme Patterns and Controls
  3. Nine Cases, Five Root-Cause Families
  4. What the Public Record Keeps Teaching
  5. The Decade in Round Numbers
  6. From Scheme to Clause: The Course on One Slide
  7. The ABMS as One Operating Picture
  8. Donations and Sponsorships: The Operating Lessons
  9. M&A Diligence: The Operating Lessons
  10. Government Contracting: Scheme Patterns and Controls
  11. The Urgent Shipment: Two Endings
  12. Running Your Own Case-Study Workshop

Course Benefits

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CPD Points

Gain Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points, accredited by The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. These can be used to count towards the distance learning element of any scheme that comes under the umbrella of The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges or any other scheme for which there is mutual recognition.

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Certification

Receive a personal certificate to show your subject knowledge on course completion.

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Affordable

You get excellent value through our cost-effective prices. We can also offer you group discounts on larger purchases.

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Flexibility

The course saves you time through the convenience of online availability. This lets you complete the interactive course at your own comfort.

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Keep Up to Date

You will stay up to date with any changes to ISO 37001:2016, the UK Bribery Act 2010 and Ministry of Justice guidance, the US FCPA, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and related enforcement practice, as our training courses are constantly monitored, reviewed and updated.

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Learn from Industry Experts

The course content has been developed by compliance and anti-corruption practitioners with management-systems audit experience, so that learners can apply ISO 37001 requirements, run defensible due diligence and make sound gifts, hospitality and third-party decisions in day-to-day operations.


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