Robert Tie, CFE
Why audits fail
A bond of trust joins auditors with all who depend on the accuracy and completeness of their findings. But venal executives, captured regulators and compromised auditors can subvert that bond, betray confidence and dissipate capital. This article offers key insights and best practices to help CFEs — including those who are auditors — expose and mitigate threats to audit reliability.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Teaming with anti-fraud pros of many stripes
Opportunistic fraudsters often have an advantage over CFEs: They can freely and spontaneously select co-conspirators by skill, position and corruptibility. To level the playing field, CFEs can work more closely with other types of anti-corruption practitioners. Their experience and techniques, when combined with ours, frequently produce extraordinary synergies that outfox versatile criminals.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
A ticking time bomb?
Fraud Magazine recently spoke with veteran CFEs Ján Lalka in the Czech Republic, Jonathan T. Marks in the U.S., and Sean McAuley in Scotland about how fraud examiners can help organizations develop secure, workable whistleblowing programs. This article explains why they're essential and, in some cases, a matter of life and death.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Not worth the paper they're printed on
Detecting financial statement fraud is more complex than ever. Here are ways to investigate the books and the personalities behind the numbers.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Case management software
Overview of 7 case management system software systems and how they can help CFEs.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Case management software: The key to optimal investigative teamwork, part two
This is the second article in a two-part series that provides an overview of case management software, which helps fraud examiners manage their workloads and digital information.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Tax fraud crisis: Innovators needed
Learn how groups of tax cheats are stealing billions and how researchers and fraud fighters are finding new ways to beat them.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Money laundering, 21st century-style, part 1 of 2
Here are the U.S. federal government's latest anti-money laundering efforts plus ways CFEs can help businesses cope with schemes and payment technology risks.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Search and restore: Asset recovery in the digital age
Speaking from the front lines, three CFEs tell how they provide state-of-the-art services to meet client needs' of finding and returning fraud proceeds
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Money laundering, 21st century-style, part 2 of 2
Part of 2 of money laundering article, with reports from CFEs on six continents.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Economic Espionage
Fraud examiners who work for global corporations need to protect their employers by being savvy with the latest "under/over-invoicing" schemes used by money launderers and terrorist fundraisers. If they don't, the courts might find their businesses criminally liable.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Suspicious Activity Reports
This article explores how law enforcement officers follow Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) leads, apply traditional investigative elbow grease and use technology to apprehend and prosecute perpetrators.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Suspicious Activity Reports (Part 2)
In part two of this series, financial service industry CFEs, attorneys, and former law enforcement officers offer inside tips on preparing accurate, complete Suspicious Activity Reports.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
C-suite fraud options
To illustrate C-suite nonfeasance, this article cites recent examples from the real estate sector. As the biggest cog in America’s economic machinery, it generates 13 percent of U.S. GDP. Perhaps unsurprisingly, money laundering in the real estate industry (MLRE) is vast and, some say, under-regulated.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Fighting fraud on the go
You’ve learned how to stop fraudsters from hacking your smartphone. But do you know how to determine whether each mobile recording you make is legal?
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Betrayal of trust
Organizations’ procurement of goods and services — through electronic bidding processes — can save money and increase efficiency. But it can also add risks plus inflict major fraud damage when staffs betray employers’ trust. Here’s how to overcome trust breaches and fight fraud in digital and human networks.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
The GRC Toolbox
CFEs can show clients and employers how governance, risk management and compliance can help detect and prevent fraud.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Mining for Hotline Gold
Here are the techniques and technologies knowledgeable CFEs use to overcome the challenge of unintegrated email, websites, telephone and "snail mail" hotlines.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Taking down a crooked film producer
Fraud Magazine recently spoke with three veteran CFEs about how they break open and dissect investment scams and claw back stolen capital. Though these practitioners weren’t involved in this ongoing Hollywood case, they’ve reviewed the public records. And they’re deeply experienced in the case’s functional components: financial investigation, digital forensics, and asset tracing and recovery. As these experts reveal, their tools and techniques also are potent weapons against other kinds of schemes.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Prepare and perform
Fraud Magazine spoke with two veteran trial participants about the skills you need and roles you can play to support a litigation team.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Hunting the big cats of fraud
In the economic crime jungle, is one predator more rapacious than all others? If so, who is king of the fraud beasts?
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
Hunting the big cats of fraud
In the economic crime jungle, is one predator more rapacious than all others?
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
C-suite fraud options
Organizations urgently need to improve their employees’ ability to report C-suite misbehavior without retribution. Here are ways that CFEs can help businesses do just that.
Written By: Robert Tie, CFE
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