Surgent's Winning the Fraud Battle in the Digital Age: Prevention and Detection

Objectives:

• Recognize the prevalence of fraud
• Understand the ways an organization may unintentionally cause fraud
• Identify the costs of fraud
• Comprehend how the new COSO framework for internal control focuses on fraud
• Grasp the importance of an internal control environment
• Recognize potential signs of fraudulent behavior
• Understand how people may respond differently to certain factors
• See that there are many layers involved in fraud defense
• Anticipate a new environment ripe for fraudulent claims and reports

Major Topics:

• The price of fraud – ACFE’s Report to the Nations and ancillary costs
• The current economy – microeconomics and analysis
• COSO internal control framework, particularly Principle 1 (integrity/ethics) and Principle 8 (fraud risk assessments)
• Power of morale – shrinking the fraud triangle and employee motivation
• Deviant workplace behavior
• Historic schemes
• Why good folks go bad – interesting findings and red flags
• Combating fraud with controls
• Controls used by fraud victim organizations and suggestions for better implementation
• Fraud’s new frontier
• Corporate social, environmental, governance, and equity/inclusion reports and audits

Designed For:

CPAs in public practice and industry who wish to educate clients or colleagues on preventing fraud from occurring at the source - would-be fraudsters

Prerequisite:

None

Additional Info:

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