From a massive accounting fraud scandal in Germany to deceitful consumer tactics among China-based companies to unethical practices on the environmental front in the United States—Compliance Week’s list of the top ethics and compliance failures of 2020 spans the globe.

Wirecard 

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Wirecard is to Germany what Enron was to the United States: An accounting fraud and oversight failure so epic in its scope and scale that its aftermath will forever alter the country’s auditing and accounting profession as it exists today.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...