- Engaging animated explainers
- Clear, voice-narrated slides
- Interactive, scenario-driven activities
- Realistic workplace examples
- Frequent knowledge checks
- A final assessment with certification
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify what constitutes acceptable vs. unacceptable gifts, hospitality, and business courtesies.
- Assess potential conflicts of interest and recognise red flags.
- Apply appropriate decision-making steps to ensure all gifts and entertainment are handled ethically and compliantly.
- Assess high-risk scenarios involving third parties, government officials, and overseas interactions, understanding how laws like the UK Bribery Act and FCPA apply.
Why Gifts and Entertainment eLearning Course?
Scenario-rich storytelling
Mirrors real workplace situations, helping employees confidently apply policies in practical contexts.
Global compliance alignment
Aligns with anti-bribery and corruption frameworks like UK Bribery Act and U.S. FCPA), ensuring relevance across multinational teams.
Guidance on Procedures and Reporting
The course clarifies when pre-approval is required and shows employees exactly how to record key details. By understanding and following the correct reporting process, learners help protect the org from serious consequences, including disciplinary action or potential legal exposure.
Clear decision pathways
Learners are guided to ensure gifts are reasonable, appropriate, and transparent; never offer or accept cash; follow pre-approval and documentation requirements; exercise extra caution with government officials, vendors, or during negotiations; and escalate to Compliance whenever something is unclear.
Interactive activities and quizzes
The course includes short, engaging activities and knowledge checks that let learners apply the rules to real scenarios, test their understanding, and immediately see the correct approach. These quick interactions reinforce key concepts, improve recall, and help employees build confidence in making compliant decisions.
Customisable modules
Enables orgs to include their own policies, thresholds, approval matrices, and real organisational examples.
Short but impactful
In just about 15 minutes, the course delivers concentrated, high-value content suitable for busy professionals.
Mobile-friendly
Ensures accessible, high-quality learning across devices with recognised professional standards.
Course Completion certificate and full tracking
Enables organisations to monitor progress and meet compliance audit requirements.
Laws & Regulations Addressed in Gifts and Entertainment eLearning Course:
This course covers key Gifts and Entertainment legal standards that reinforces your commitment to ethical business conduct. Major legal references include:
| Legislation / Concept | Relevance in the Course |
|---|---|
| UK Bribery Act 2010 | Strictly prohibits offering or receiving anything of value that could unduly influence business decisions. |
| U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) | Outlines strict guidelines for interactions with foreign government officials. |
Course's Screenshots
Course Structure
Learning elements
Format & accessibility
The platform offers fully responsive design across desktop, tablet, and mobile, along with a learner dashboard, progress tracking, employee reminders, and seamless integration with your existing systems.
Target Audience
The Gifts and Hospitality Compliance Course is tailored for:
- Managers and supervisors responsible for approving or overseeing gifting decisions and managing conflicts of interest.
- Sales, procurement, and vendor-facing teams
- Finance, compliance, and legal teams
- Senior leadership and executives who set the tone for ethical conduct and organisational integrity.
- New hires who must quickly understand the org’s gifting policies and expectations.
In short, for all employees who may give or receive gifts, hospitality, or business courtesies as part of their role.
Case Studies: Real Consequences of Non-Compliance
Gifts and Entertainment training is not mandated by law but regulators expect it as part of an effective compliance program.
Some of the common requirements across laws include: Gifts or hospitality must not intend to influence an official, client, or business decision, orgs must maintain clear policies and controls over gifts and must record them accurately and transparently.
Here are real-world examples showing how failures around gifts, hospitality and entertainment can lead to significant fines, and therefore support the business case for robust training in this area:
- Airbus SE agreed to pay over US $3.9 billion in global penalties after investigations found that it had engaged in bribery involving gifts, hospitality and other inducements to win contracts.
- SAP SE was fined more than US $220 million by U.S. authorities over bribery schemes involving gifts and luxury items to foreign officials in multiple countries.
Course Outline
Introduction
What Counts as a Gift or Entertainment
- Defining Gifts & Entertainment
Acceptable and Unacceptable Gifts and Entertainment
Activity: The learners are asked to drag the correct stamp to each image and decide whether the action is acceptable under the org’s Gifts and Entertainment policy.
High-Risk Situations
Total Duration: 15 Mins
FAQs
Because inappropriate gifts or hospitality can expose your org to bribery risks, regulatory penalties, conflicts of interest, and reputational damage. Training ensures employees understand boundaries and make compliant decisions.
A gift may include anything of value such as merchandise, gift cards, services, personal favours, loans, or discounts. Entertainment typically includes meals, event tickets, cultural outings, travel, or hospitality. Some business courtesies, like a working lunch or promotional stationery, may be acceptable, provided they are reasonable and fully transparent.
Despite having clear procedures in place, you might still encounter some situations that require extra scrutiny such as gifts and entertainment involving government officials, interactions with third parties or vendors, any offer of travel or accommodation from external party and cross-cultural gift-giving.
It explains acceptable vs. unacceptable gifts and entertainment, global anti-bribery laws, conflict-of-interest scenarios, approval workflows, record-keeping, and how to handle real-world dilemmas ethically.
All employees who may give or receive business courtesies, especially sales, procurement, vendor-facing teams, managers, executives, and new hires.
By equipping employees to identify red flags, seek appropriate approvals, and follow policy-aligned decision pathways that prevent bribery, undue influence, and policy violations.
Yes. You can incorporate your own gift thresholds, approval matrices, reporting requirements, examples, branding, and industry-specific scenarios.
Absolutely! It reflects key standards from the UK Bribery Act, U.S. FCPA, and other international guidance, helping multinational teams stay compliant.
The course includes scenario-based decision points, branching storylines, quizzes, approval-flow simulations, and practical case examples to reinforce learning.
Yes. After the final assessment, learners receive a certificate to help demonstrate compliance and strengthen audit trails.
Most learners finish within 10-15 minutes, depending on your customisations and assessments.
The course captures completion data, provides evidence of reasonable steps, strengthens policy adherence, and supports regulatory audits and internal reviews.
Yes. The course is responsive and can be accessed on desktop, tablet, or mobile for flexible completion.
Annual or biennial completion is recommended, especially for high-risk roles such as sales, procurement, and executives.
The delivery is fully flexible. If you have an in-house LMS, we can provide the course as a SCORM-compliant package. If not, we offer a seamless SaaS-based hosting option for easy access and deployment.
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