How to Improve Export Compliance with Effective Audits



In the past year, the Commerce Department has released new audit guidelines and the State Department has reinvigorated its Company Visit Program.

 

Both State and Commerce Departments recommend regular audits as part of their compliance program guidelines. Despite their negative image, export compliance audits are one of the most effective tools for improving and validating your compliance program.  Whenever possible, audits should not be about digging to see how many violations you can find.  Instead, audits should strive to find the weaknesses in your compliance program and spot clear options for making cost-effective improvements.

 

The Export Compliance Training Institute is pleased to announce that Felice Laird will use her nearly 30 years of export compliance experience to lead a practical and instructive webinar on what you need to know about audits.

 All webinar participants will receive an audit questionnaire template!

Outline of the webinar:

  • Vocabulary— what is the difference between a self-audit, government audit, outside audit, directed audit

  • Why should a company conduct an audit?

    • Part of compliance program

    • Asked to do it by parent company or new owner

    • Asked to do it in an M&A contract

    • Asked to do it by government

    • Do it before you formalize compliance program

  • New BIS Audit Guidelines

  • Update on State Department Company Visit Program

  • Options for doing the audit: internal vs. external resources

  • Vetting outside law firms and consulting firms

  • How to budget and create a timetable for an audit

  • How to develop an audit module (example: What are the key areas to be audited? What methodology is going to be used? Will it involve lots of document reviews?)

  • How to figure out who to interview

This webinar will provide PowerPoint slides and include live video and commentary from Felice Laird who has 30 years’ experience in training on US export controls. Participants are invited to submit questions during the webinar. The final 30 minutes of the webinar will be allotted to answering attendees' questions.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Felice Laird

Felice Laird has over twenty years' experience helping companies comply with the US Export Administration and International Traffic in Arms Regulations.   Felice specializes in transactional work, reviewing clients' product lines to establish licensing requirements and then providing guidance on how best to deal with any government restrictions on export.  Felice is a subject matter expert in encryption export controls and has helped both large and small firms navigate the complex restrictions on data security technologies.

 

Prior to becoming a consultant, Felice worked at the Department of Commerce in what is now the Bureau of Industry and Security.  She also worked as an International Trade Analyst at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison and as an Export Compliance Administrator for GTE Corp (now Verizon).  

 

Felice served on the encryption working group of the President’s Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration (PECSEA), as well as serving as a PECSEA member during the Bush Administration.  Felice is active in the National Council on International Trade and Development and TechAmerica’s Export Committee.  She has a BA from the University of New Hampshire and a MS in International Business from the American University.

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    When
    Tue, Apr 18, 2017, 1:00pm ET


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