Employee Fraud Awareness Training: Recruiting an Anti-Fraud Foot-Soldier Army

CFEs and management should recruit and train those who can fight fraud most effectively as employees.  

Since you're reading this issue of The White Paper, chances are you have at least a basic understanding of fraud and why it's important to prevent, deter, detect, and pursue. However, often the people that are in the best positions to fight fraud, those on the front lines of procurement, audit, payroll and accounting -- to name a few -- have little if any training in the basics, the key indicators of fraud, and the steps to take when they suspect it. Most employees want to help fight fraud and help root out wrongdoing but they don't have the right tools to do the job.

Contained here is a blueprint of a fraud awareness-training program for non-fraud investigators for increasing overall knowledge of fraud and encouraging employee reporting of potential wrongdoing to the CFE. This program can be adapted for use in public or private entities, colossal multi-national corporations, or small non-profits.

To increase fraud prevention, deterrence, and detection in any organization we must make anti-fraud foot soldiers out of as many employees as possible. More information reported to the CFE concerning indications of possible fraud can only increase the amount of fraud that will actually be uncovered.

Management Buy-in