Corporate fraud : the human factor / Maryam Hussain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hussain, Maryam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--Corrupt practices.

Corporations.

Fraud.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Corporate fraud is unlike any other risk that an organisation has to manage. It requires us to believe that we can be deceived by individuals that we know, trust and do business with - one of life's 'inconvenient truths'. So, we often choose to believe many of the myths that prevail: 'our people would not commit fraud'... 'fraud couldn't happen to us, we're a stable organisation'... 'we would know quickly if it happened, we watch the vulnerable areas'. The fact is that people are driven by complex motivations and fraudsters exploit opportunities and gaps in the fabric of their organisation, pa

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Approaches to fraud risk; 3. What drives the fraudster?; 4. Fraud detection: Building the intelligent company to stay ahead of fraud; 5. Fraud investigation: Understanding the problem; 6. Asset tracing: Recovering the money; 7. Corporate irresponsibility?; 8. Regional perspectives: India, Africa, China and the Middle East; 9. Cybercrime: A unique challenge?; 10. The future of fraud; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 29, 2014).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed August 23 , 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4729-0510-5

OCLC:

869095122