The document summarizes a presentation by Sherry DePew on fraud prevention. It discusses the fraud triangle of opportunity, motive, and character. Examples of different types of fraud are provided, including employee expense report fraud, accounts payable fraud, and product theft. Prevention methods like segregation of duties and vendor validation are also summarized. Trends in fraud over time and acknowledgements are briefly mentioned.
An individual whose personal character would not normally allow themselves to be part of fraudulent behavior can change with motive and opportunity.
C= Controls Be Skeptical and follow up on your hunches, if something doesn’t look or feel right, trust yourself. For most companies it’s a very good thing that it takes motive and character along with opportunity to lead to fraud.
C= Controls Be Skeptical and follow up on your hunches, if something doesn’t look or feel right, trust yourself. For most companies it’s a very good thing that it takes motive and character along with opportunity to lead to fraud.
Signed up for training, used the on-line registration as a receipt for reimbursement bud didn’t attend the class. Travel receipts submitted for reimbursement when the employee was in the office.
AP Customer Service person knew immediately what we were dealing with, she brought me the name and phone number of the Bank representative. In talking with the bank I was able to get a list of payments made to this account since the person was hired and quickly traced over $55,000 in payments in 10 weeks. It took me about one hour to secure enough documentation to take this to our CFO, we called Corporate Security from his office. Press Charges? She’s serving out her second sentence for embezzlement. (What I didn’t know)