Fighting fraud : how to establish and manage an anti-fraud program / Gerald L. Kovacich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kovacich, Gerald L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial crimes.

Commercial crimes--Investigation.

Fraud--Prevention.

Fraud.

Fraud investigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This practical reference provides the basics for instituting a corporate anti-fraud program that helps prepare corporate security professionals and other corporate managers for fighting corporate fraud from inside the company. It provides an exceptional foundation for security professionals or business executives involved in developing and implementing a corporate anti-fraud program as part of a corporate assets protection program.The author's intent is to provide the reader with a practitioner's guide (a "how-to? book), augmented by some background information to put it all in perspec

Contents:

The new-old global business environment

Corporate assets, frauds and other terms

what are they?

Fraud-related laws

Corporations don't commit frauds, people do

Fighting fraud

whose job is it anyway?

Where there is a will there is a way

fraud schemes

Fraud cases and commentary

learning by example

The international widget corporation

Establishing an anti-fraud program

Managing an anti-fraud program

Winning through teaming

Anti-fraud functions

Are we winning the battle? how do we know? measure it!

What will the fraudulent future hold for corporations?

The impact of high technology on fraud

What the security and other anti-fraud professionals must do now to personally prepare to combat tomorrow's frauds

Summary and final thoughts.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-02931-9

9786611029319

0-08-055098-3

OCLC:

476098598