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:
The motives for committing fraud
Directors' responsibilities for identifying and reporting fraud
What types of frauds there are
How frauds are perpetrated
How they can be prevented
How regulators deal with fraud
Above all, the principal objective of this programme is to help make your organisation as secure as possible from the threat of fraud.
1 Motives for committing fraud - drivers of fraud
Session objective: to understand why people might commit fraud
Drivers of fraudulent behaviourAmbitionGreedTheftConceit?
And more!
2 Accounting mechanisms that allow fraud
Session objective: to review the elements of the accounting, internal control and management processes that allow creative accounting
Income or liability?
Asset or expense?
Coding errors and misclassification
Netting off and grossing up
Off-balance sheet items
3 Structures that allow fraud
Session objective: to consider company and trading structures that allow frauds to be perpetrated
Group structures
Trading structures
Tax havens
Importing and exporting
4 Interpretations and other non-compliance that allow fraud
Session objective: to look at how creative interpretations of law and accounting practice may permit fraud
The place of accounting standards
Accounting policies
Trading methods
The place of auditing standards
5 Money laundering
Session objective: to review what constitutes money laundering
Types of money laundering
Identifying laundering
Preventing laundering
6 Preventing fraud - proper management structures
Session objective: to review the place of proper corporate governance
Corporate governance
Company management structure
Audit committees
The place of internal audit
7 Preventing fraud - proper accounting
Session objective: to review best accounting and auditing practice
Accounting standards
Internal accounting policies
Adequacy of internal controls
Internal audit
8 Preventing fraud - regulation
Session objective: to look at how regulators aim to prevent fraud
The regulatory environment
Financial services regulation
9 Conclusion
Course review
Open forum
Close
10 Course summary - developing your own cost action plan
Group and individual action plans will be prepared with a view to participants identifying their cost risks areas and the techniques which can be immediately applied to improve costing and reduce costs