Keeping Accurate Records
All of our organization’s records must be accurate and complete in all respects. Examples of records include accounting and financial data and reports; sales numbers; expense reports; performance data; product information; environmental, health and safety data; email; electronic files; and all other records created in the course of business.
To ensure accurate records are kept and your actions are in compliance with our Code, follow these guidelines:
- Always maintain accurate, complete, and timely records and accounts that honestly reflect business transactions.
- Never report inaccurate or incomplete information or assist others in doing so.
- Never present information in a way that is designed to mislead or misinform or assist others in doing so.
- Follow all rules for proper and legal accounting, financial reporting, and maintenance of internal controls.
- Always fully cooperate with any investigations, audits, or reviews by promptly submitting any requested information and ensuring that information is accurate and complete.
Examples of Inaccurate Records include, but are not limited to:
- Falsifying timesheets, travel expenses, expense reports, or invoices.
- Providing incomplete or inaccurate records to a supervisor, management, auditor, or anyone else.
- Making false or misleading statements to government agencies in financial, environmental, import/export, or any other type of report.
- Submitting documents to the government with material omissions.
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