Concepts, Principles, and Standards
The American Anti-Corruption Institute (AACI) develops and publishes professional concepts, principles, and standards that support corruption prevention, governance accountability, and the responsible exercise of entrusted authority.
Together, these concepts, principles, and standards constitute The AACI’s professional anti-corruption framework. They are intended to help decision-makers, executive management, public officials, those charged with governance, internal auditors, compliance professionals, educators, and other stakeholders strengthen institutional integrity and reduce exposure to fraud and corruption.
The AACI concepts address selected governance, corruption-prevention, and institutional-risk issues that require clear professional language, disciplined judgment, and practical application.
These concepts help stakeholders understand recurring weaknesses in governance, oversight, decision-making, entrusted authority, internal control, and institutional accountability.
Explore AACI ConceptsThe Ten Principles of Fighting Corruption provide a practical roadmap for individuals, organizations, and governments seeking to deter, prevent, detect, help correct, and defeat corruption.
They emphasize essential foundations such as the rule of law, effective internal control, good governance, accountability, investment in corruption prevention, and other safeguards required to reduce corruption exposure.
Read the Ten PrinciplesThe Standards on Fighting Corruption (SFCs) complement The Ten Principles of Fighting Corruption by providing professional guidance on selected areas of corruption prevention, governance accountability, and institutional integrity.
The AACI develops and publishes SFCs to support more consistent, disciplined, and practical anti-corruption conduct across sectors and jurisdictions.
Explore the SFCsThe AACI Framework connects professional concepts, principles, and standards into a practical body of knowledge for corruption prevention and governance accountability.
The AACI encourages stakeholders to study its concepts, principles, and standards carefully and to use them as references when developing anti-corruption strategies, governance frameworks, training initiatives, and institutional corruption-prevention programs. These materials are provided for educational, research, governance, and professional development purposes only and should not be treated as legal, regulatory, accounting, auditing, compliance, or professional advice for any specific organization, jurisdiction, transaction, or factual situation.
When developing proposed Standards on Fighting Corruption (SFCs), The AACI may invite stakeholders to submit comments through its websites, official blog, social media channels, or other appropriate communication channels. When an exposure period is announced, The AACI ordinarily seeks comments for a period of not less than forty-five days, unless a different period is specified.
The materials referenced on this page are made available for educational, research, governance, and professional development purposes. The American Anti-Corruption Institute (AACI) does not accept responsibility for any loss caused to any person or entity that acts or refrains from acting in reliance on these materials. Stakeholders should obtain appropriate professional advice before applying any concept, principle, standard, or related material to a specific legal, regulatory, accounting, auditing, compliance, governance, operational, or factual matter.