Reading 2-IV: Standards of Professional Conduct & Guidan

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Q6. The following scenarios describe two members of CFA Institute who have supervisory responsibility.

The president of Hawthorne Investments, a newly founded money management firm with five investment professionals, asked Rebecca Long, CFA, to be the company's compliance officer and to develop the company's compliance procedures. Long has an in-depth knowledge of the Code and Standards, but she was too busy to develop a compliance manual herself. Therefore, she copied, with written permission, the compliance manual of a large money management firm. This manual was comprehensive and covered many areas not part of Hawthorne's operations. Long gave the manual to Hawthorne's president, but did not distribute the contents of the program to other appropriate personnel.
A co-worker at Barksdale Capital mentions to Stephen Luck, CFA, that George Trout, a candidate in the CFA Program, may have violated the CFA Institute standard involving priority of transactions. As Trout's supervisor, Luck decided to investigate this allegation but did not begin the investigation until a month after the alleged incident. Luck continued to maintain the same amount of supervision on Trout during the month before he began his investigation of Trout.

According to the CFA Institute Standards of Professional Conduct, which of the following statements about whether Long and Luck followed appropriate compliance procedures involving their responsibilities as supervisors is TRUE?

A) Luck violated the procedures for compliance, but Long did not.

B) Neither Luck nor Long violated the procedures for compliance.

C) Both Luck and Long violated the procedures for compliance.

Q7. Wanda Kirby, CFA, recently joined Allegheny Investments as a senior analyst. Because of her extensive experience in the investments business and knowledge of the Code and Standards, Allegheny's management asked her to assume supervisory responsibility. Kirby reviewed Allegheny's existing compliance system and determined that it was inadequate to allow her to clearly discharge her supervisory responsibility. According to CFA Institute Standards, Kirby should:

A) decline in writing to accept supervisory responsibility until Allegheny adopts reasonable procedures to allow her to adequately exercise such responsibility.

B) agree to accept supervisory responsibility provided that Allegheny adopts reasonable procedures to allow her to adequately exercise such responsibility.

C) agree to accept supervisory responsibility and to develop reasonable procedures to allow her to adequately exercise such responsibility.

Q8. For years John Berger, a CFA charterholder and CEO of a company, relied upon a set of reasonable procedures for preventing violations of the Code and Standards of Professional Conduct in the firm. To not be liable for a violation of the Standards, Berger must:

A) do nothing more than have the set of procedures in place as stated.

B) ensure the procedures are monitored and enforced.

C) both periodically review the procedures and ensure the procedures are monitored and enforced.

Q9. Which of the following statements about Standard IV(C), Responsibilities of Supervisors, is FALSE? CFA Institute members with supervisory authority:

A) are expected to bring an inadequate compliance system to the attention of the firm's senior managers and recommend corrective action.

B) may delegate supervisory duties, which relieves them of their supervisory authority.

C) are expected to have in-depth knowledge of the Code and Standards and to apply this knowledge in discharging their supervisory responsibilities.

Q10. For years, John Berger, a CFA charterholder and CEO of a company, relied upon a set of reasonable procedures for preventing violations of the Standards of Practice in the firm. The company has recently arranged to have members of CFA Institute as mid-level supervisors throughout the firm. With this arrangement Berger has delegated the supervision of employees with respect to the Code and Standards to the mid-level managers. With this action Berger:

A) is still responsible for seeing that procedures are in place to prevent violations of the Code and Standards.

B) is relieved of his obligation to supervise the employees under the mid-level supervisors.

C) has violated Standard IV(C), Responsibilities of Supervisors.