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How to distinguish between invoicing fraud and incompetence.

The ACFE Foundation has awarded 30 college and university students with the Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship worth $1,000 each for the 2010-2011 school year.

An outline of the FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book's 2009 figures

Thomas Stazyk, CFE, CISA, CPA, and his wife, Mahruku, recently planted Kahikatea trees in honor of Dr. Donald R. Cressey, and his wife, Elaine, on the Stazyks’ New Zealand preservation farm, CUE Haven.

As we approach Thanksgiving, I give thanks to whistleblowers. I risk drifting into cliché-speak here, but their actions personify courage. When fraud confronts them, they decide not to look the other way but instead risk their jobs, families and health “For Choosing Truth Over Self” — the motto inscribed on the ACFE’s Cliff Robertson Sentinel Award.

The importance of the “tone at the top” in deterring fraud is a concept that most of us have read about in articles and studies. However, seeing tone at the top in practice and how it impacts an organization positively or negatively is the best way to understand exactly how this link works.

Top executives can drive their companies close to bankruptcy because it’s often easy for them to circumvent controls.

Learn how to bait a trap to catch insurance offenders before they claim more money. The interview skills you'll acquire will help in all other types of fraud examinations.

While many professionals in the United States scramble to keep up with accounting changes mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 99 "Consideration of Fraud in Financial Statements," our international counterparts face similar challenges.

Scattergraphing can help fraud examiners to effectively sift through an extensive amount of data to identify audit exceptions.