Organizations of all kinds and sizes are increasingly threatened by employee fraud. In fact, employee fraud represents the majority of all fraud threatening organizations. Embezzlement, kickbacks, check fraud, financial statement fraud and vendor billing schemes are just a few of the countless economic crimes committed by employees and outsiders. And with the march of technology, new computer and Internet-driven schemes are being deployed by dishonest insiders all the time.

To effectively protect against employee fraud, it is first necessary to determine who in your organization is likeliest to be a perpetrator ... and why. With that knowledge, you can begin to understand what fraud fighters commonly refer to “behavioral indicator” of potential fraud.

Beyond that, however, it is essential to gain the skills for assessing your organization’s risk of being a victim of the large and continuously expanding variety of employee-perpetrated frauds. Only then can you begin to build audit plans designed to identify the red flags of these offenses and, if found, examine clues that may point to the existence of actual fraud.

Course Objectives:

This webinar will provide attendees with a strong foundation of practical knowledge about how common frauds are committed, how to detect the red flags of these crimes and how to eliminate control deficiencies that provide opportunities for dishonest employees.

The ultimate goal of all of this, of course, is to lay the groundwork for pinpointing and then remediating internal control deficiencies that provide the opportunities for dishonest employees to engage in fraudulent activity.

This Webinar will touch on all of these critical areas, using carefully selected case studies to help illustrate the essential take-aways from the training.

Why Should You Attend:

• Understand the fraud problem
• Why employees commit fraud
• Essential fraud detection tools and techniques
• Software tools for auditing for fraud
• Best practices for developing and implementing anti-fraud controls
• Identify the red flags of fraud
• How to detect and investigate fraud
• Building an anti-fraud control environment

Course Outline:

Introduction:

• Statistical overview of the fraud problem
• Who commits fraud  
• Why employees commit fraud (The Fraud Triangle)
• Lessons from fraudsters
• Common Types of  Internal Fraud Today

Red Flags of Fraud:

• Conducting a Fraud Risk Assessment and Recognizing the Red Flags of Internal Fraud
• The Fraud Risk Mitigation Cycle
• Implementing an organization-wide system for detecting, preventing and investigating fraud

Fraud Detection:

• How Frauds Are Most Often Detected
• Additional General Detection Methods
• Data Analytics  for fraud detection
• Examples of Fraud Audit Techniques at Work

Anti-Fraud Controls:

• Internal Controls and Other Fraud Prevention Measures:
• Who Should Manage Anti Fraud Activities
• Internal Controls: Do’s and Don’t’s
• Best Practices in Anti-Fraud Controls.
• General controls: Segregation of Duties, Delegation of Authority, Background investigation
• Specific operations-level controls major fraud categories.

What You Get:

• Training Materials
• Live Q&A Session with our Expert
• Participation Certificate
• Access to Signup Community (Optional)
• Reward Points

Who Will Benefit:

• Internal and external audit professionals
• Internal control professionals
• Finance and accounting management
• Compliance and ethics professionals
• Loss prevention and risk specialists
• Security professionals
• Fraud examiners
• Procurement and payables specialists