Best Practices for Ethics Hotlines
Most frauds are found through tips and most tips come through hotlines. Here are some suggestions if you're beginning a hotline for the first time.

Billing Schemes, Part 3: Pay-and-Return Invoicing
This article explains the pay-and-return billing scheme, in which an employee creates an overpayment to a vendor and pockets the subsequent refund.

Effective solutions for combating employee theft: Creative employee theft schemes & how to detect them
Just when you think that you've seen every way an employee can steal from you, a new one comes along. Employees are always coming up with creative ways of making you part with your money. In this session you'll learn some of these ways and especially how you can detect them, the first step in stopping them.

Designing a Robust Fraud Prevention Program, Part One
There may not be a more opportune time for a fraud examiner to press for a full-fledged fraud prevention program.

Designing a Robust Fraud Prevention Program, Part Two
Entities worldwide must transform security departments into rigorous fraud prevention programs staffed with qualified fraud examiners.

Enemies Within
In a study of 2,608 cases of occupational fraud and abuse, we learned that asset misappropriation can be subdivided into specific types.

A Fistful of Dollars
The best fraud prevention efforts will concentrate on increasing an employee's perception of being caught.

Global Risks Reduced: International Business Doesn’t Have to Be Risky
Being aware of and prepared for issues like personal safety, office supply needs, technology, and language barriers will help you adapt more smoothly to a foreign environment. Even more important is understanding the business culture of the country you’

Protecting the public interest: Fraud in government. Grant/Contract fraud in the public sector
Not all fraud involves the theft of assets, but rather some involve the misuse of assets. Every year, Federal, State and Local Governments award thousands of dollars in grant/contracts to vendors. However, the grant money is not always prudently managed. This session focuses on the ways and manner in which government grants are misapplied or misused, oftentimes to the benefit of the program administrator.

Effective solutions for combating employee theft: Implementing and managing a fraud hotline
One of the most common methods for detecting fraud is by a tip from an employee, customer, vendor, or an anonymous source. This session will focus on the benefits of utilizing a fraud hotline as well as what should be reported, and how to develop effective procedures for recording, reporting, and tracking hotline information.

Preventing Fraud: Tips for Small Business Owners
All businesses, no matter the industry or size, can be targets of fraud. However, small businesses tend to have disproportionately large losses from asset misappropriation, and are far less likely to recover from fraud.

Protecting the Public Interests: Mismanagement of Government Grant and Contract Funds
Fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement of government contract and contract funds will never be eliminated. But frequent, modest proactive audits and reviews that focus on fraud indicators will help identify and prevent misuse before the funds are expended.

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