Fraud (In-House)

Description

Fraud should not happen, but it does. It can happen at the highest to lowest levels in an organisation. Recent surveys show that incidents of fraud are not decreasing. Fraud costs companies money and, perhaps even more importantly, reputational damage.

The losers are not just the shareholders, suppliers, customers, etc, but society as a whole.

This programme shows why frauds happen, how organisations put themselves at risk and what they can do to prevent it.

This programme will help directors and others understand:

Above all, the principal objective of this programme is to help make your organisation as secure as possible from the threat of fraud.

Session objective: to understand why people might commit fraud

Session objective: to review the elements of the accounting, internal control and management processes that allow creative accounting

Session objective: to consider company and trading structures that allow frauds to be perpetrated

Session objective: to look at how creative interpretations of law and accounting practice may permit fraud

Session objective: to review what constitutes money laundering

Session objective: to review the place of proper corporate governance

Session objective: to review best accounting and auditing practice

Session objective: to look at how regulators aim to prevent fraud