Art fraud forges ahead: Fraud in the collection of fine art
Art fraud and forgeries often are ignored in the world of white-collar crime. However, this small subset of fraud is growing globally as more unsuspecting novice collectors enter a world unfettered by internal controls. Learn how to detect and prevent fraud in this multibillion-dollar industry.

Avoiding Embezzlement Embarrassment Or Worse
An entity can lose twice in an embezzlement case. Consider these 10 actions to avoid even more revenue loss during the fraud examination and litigation.

Beating fraud through internal auditing: A fraud primer for the new internal auditor
When new internal auditors are assigned the task of looking for fraud, many find themselves without the necessary skills to do a proper examination. In this session, you'll get an overview of what the new internal auditor needs to know about fraud in his or her first fraud assignments.

Breaking Tradition in the Auditing Profession
Established auditing approaches cannot adequately detect financial statement fraud. The ACFE proposes a Model Organizational Fraud Deterrence Program as an alternate, more effective strategy for both auditors and investors.

Construction Fraud: Beware the ‘Outside Facilitator’
Crafty manipulators will use weak employees at construction job sites to defraud companies for many months – long before the home office smells any problems.

‘Damaged’ Fingers? Minimized Employee Accident Report Forms Lead to $600,000 in Fines and Penalties
Investigators found that the company had intentionally downplayed a number of serious injuries, which resulted in the company receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in government rebate money.

Fraud Case Preparation: Know Your Goal, Know Your Role - PART ONE
Non-sworn fraud examiners can optimize their chances for prosecution of white-collar crimes by avoiding things that law enforcement officers just hate.

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.

Hanging Global Money Launderers Out to Dry, Part One
Global money laundering has ballooned - some estimates range as high as $500 billion a year worldwide. But overt and covert methods can trace the funds, find the evidence, and make the fraudsters pay.

Identity Theft: Hunting Down and Nabbing the Thieves - Part 1
Catching identity thieves requires solid cooperation and hard-hitting procedures among fraud examiners, auditors, law enforcement, postal inspectors, the courts, banks, credit card companies, business owners, government, and many others.

Effective solutions for combating employee theft. Ignoring indicators equals fraud: a case study
Financial statement audit failures contribute to the untimely discovery and prevention of fraud. How and why does this happen? The appropriate use of Generally Accepted Auditing Standards can identify fraud risk resulting in deterrence and discovery. In this session, GAAS will be discussed and common deficiencies in work will be highlighted together with the disastrous fraud schemes that were discovered too late.

Inside the Interview: We receive questions on questioning
Participants in our interviewing courses have lots of questions. Here are some of the most frequently asked.

Interviewing: Part Two The Process of Deception
Determining deception in an interview requires the fraud examiner’s abilities to detect subtle change, limit disbelief in the subject, and suppress emotional responses.

Healthcare and insurance fraud: Investigating provider fraud: A case study
Provider fraud can be the most difficult fraud case to investigate and prove. But it is done and done successfully. Using auditing techniques to identify suspicious billing trends, the fraud was first identified and then proved. In this case, this doctor stole from many different insurance carriers and is now paying the price.

It is Not What We Say, but How We Say It
New insights have shown that deceivers can now be identified by how they say things and not just by what they say.

Fraud prevention: The latest techniques. Proactive fraud risk reviews: Page 1
In order to combat the modern day fraudster, you need to stay one step ahead of the game. Management must realize that they are not immune to fraud and abuse and must be willing to root out the causes and address their concerns head on. To be successful in the fight against fraud you need a game plan that addresses all opportunities for fraud and abuse and details a plan of action. Learn what the best practices are and what you can use to perform a fraud risk review within your organization.

Fraud prevention: The latest techniques. Proactive fraud risk reviews: Page 2
In order to combat the modern day fraudster, you need to stay one step ahead of the game. Management must realize that they are not immune to fraud and abuse and must be willing to root out the causes and address their concerns head on. To be successful in the fight against fraud you need a game plan that addresses all opportunities for fraud and abuse and details a plan of action. Learn what the best practices are and what you can use to perform a fraud risk review within your organization.

Sherlock Holmes, CPA, Part 1
The first step in uncovering fraud in the auditor’s bailiwick: analyzing financial information.

Practical solutions to current fraud issues: Steganography detection: finding evidence in plain sight
Steganography has been used in many forms for centuries. It has now moved into the digital realm offering a rich environment for hiding virtually unlimited types of data in audio, video, and image files. Although it has a number of legitimate uses, it can and is being misused. This session will discuss the origins and background of steganography and research into the ability to detect its presence in seemingly innocuous digital carriers.

FraudBasics: When Employees GO BAD. Conducting internal investigations, part one.
This FraudBasics article is adapted from part of the ACFE course, "Conducting Internal Investigations." For more information on this and other courses, visit CFEnet.com/events/seminars.asp.

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