Employee Fraud Detection and Prevention

This fraud training program will focus on understanding the fraud problem and what propels employees to commit fraud. The course will also offer essential fraud detection tools and techniques and highlight best practices for developing and implementing anti-fraud controls.

Why Should You Attend:

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.

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.

Learning Objectives:

• 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

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• 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

• Fraud detection
• How frauds are most often detected
• Additional general detection methods
• Data mining/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: dos and don’ts
• Best practices in anti-fraud controls
• General controls: Segregation of duties, delegation of authority, background investigation
• Specific operations-level controls major fraud categories

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