About the course: 

Awareness about Conflict of Interest (COI) is essential for promoting ethical behavior, ensuring transparency, and fostering trust in employees and management of the organization.

As per the EY Global Integrity Report 2024, having an unusually close association with a vendor or customer, which is also known as conflict of interest, is one of the most common behavioral red flags. This course enables the learners to understand compliance and the consequences of failing to address conflicts appropriately.

EY’s Forensic & Integrity Services practice has supported various clients and guided them on COI programs more effectively such that, they have been guided to prevent, detect, and train their employees on the most vulnerable scenarios.

Leveraging our experience and understanding of the leading practices in this domain, through our in-house industry professionals, we have designed this training program that aims at enhancing your understanding of COI compliance requirements.

In addition to some theoretical aspects, the training program will also enable you to get familiarized with ongoing trends, various aspects of the COI including actual, potential and perceived etc.

Course benefits:

• Understanding basic concepts and types of COI
• Understanding the learnings from ongoing trends and issues
• Equip you with the knowledge to manage day-to-day situations involving instances of COI
• Knowledge Assessment to validate understanding

Who should take this course:

• Compliance and ethics professional
• Professionals working across all functions 
• Aspirants of compliance functions

Course coverage:

This Conflict of Interest online training program covers the following aspects:-

• Introduction to Conflict of Interest and its examples
• Instances and impact of violations
• Disclosure of COI situations
• The course includes interactive exercises, activities, case studies, and both animated and text-based ethical dilemma scenarios to enhance understanding of the nuances and reinforce learning.

Terms and Conditions

Please note the following terms and conditions for taking this course:

• This course does not include exhaustive content pertaining to topic ‘Conflict of Interest’
• The content included in the course is only relevant to India, hence, only learners from India are eligible to take this course. 
• This course is to share knowledge w.r.t. what conflict of interest is about and is not a certification. 
• Please refer to the applicable legislation or law or your organisation’s policies and seek professional guidance and opinion before taking any action. 
• This course is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as professional or legal advice in any form or manner. 
• This course is intended to provide a general guidance and is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual or entity.  
• While every attempt is made to ensure that the information contained in this material is up to date, it should not be regarded as comprehensive, exhaustive or sufficient to take decisions.
• The case studies, videos or questions included in the courses are hypothetical in nature and any resemblance with real life, is purely coincidental. 
• All titles and intellectual property rights of these course(s) are owned by Ernst & Young LLP, India (“EY”). All such rights are reserved, remain vested in EY and are not being transferred in any manner. EY does not accept any liability or responsibility for any actions taken based on the information provided in this course.
• No portion of this course content may be reproduced in any form, in whole or in part, for any purpose without prior written permission of EY. 
• No part of the course contents shall be stored in any form including electronic knowledge-base, or data retrieval system, etc. without prior written permission of EY. 
• In case you need to use this material, or there is a need for customization of any part of this training module, please send us an email with the details of your requirement on EYelearning.forensics@in.ey.com
• Please do not proceed with the course if the above terms and conditions are not acceptable.