How to Build an Anti-Fraud Culture

Why Should You Attend:

Fraud is growing by a staggering 20% per year, according to the respected international fraud investigation firm, Kroll. And according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners the majority of all fraud is committed by employees.

Organizations that operate on the assumption that their existing ethics and compliance policies (addressing general aspects of employee behavior—including anti-discrimination, harassment, conflicts of interest) are sufficient to thwart fraud are misleading themselves and risking debilitating financial and reputational loss. This makes crystal clear the urgent need for proactive anti-fraud actions by management to build a culture that minimizes opportunities, pressures and justifications for committing fraud.

Attend this webinar to understand how to reduce the likelihood that your employees will engage in fraudulent conduct, by building a clear anti-fraud “Tone at the Top” of zero-tolerance toward fraud and implement specific policies that explain to employees what constitutes fraud, how to recognize its red flags and how to take action.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• Explain why employees commit fraud.
• Understand the key difference between ethics and fraud policies and their impact on corporate culture.
• Identify specific management steps for creating a powerful anti-fraud Tone at the Top.
• Identify anti-fraud measures that encourage employees to “do the right thing”
• Take away lessons from organizations that have successfully built fraud-resistant corporate cultures.

Areas Covered in this Webinar:

• Statistical overview of the fraud problem generally, and T&E fraud specifically.
• Who commits fraud
• Case studies of employee fraud in an environment of poor anti-fraud “values”
• Ethics/compliance policies vs fraud policies

PROACTIVE MEASURES TO BUILD AN ANTI-FRAUD CULTURE

• Tone at the Top
• Employee fraud awareness training
• Encouraging whistle-blowing
• How to build a workable anti-fraud policy
• How to set up an effective fraud hotline

Who Will Benefit:

• Internal and external audit professionals
• Compliance and ethics officers
• Accounting and audit practitioners
• HR managers
• Senior financial management seeking to reduce their vulnerability to costly frauds
• Procurement managers
• CFO’s/senior financial managers
• Security personnel

Instructor Profile:

Peter Goldmann, has 25 years of experience as a business journalist and trainer, having launched, edited and published numerous business trade periodicals covering small business, international trade, management strategy, banking and personal finance. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) as well as an active member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, the High-Tech Crime Investigation Association and the IOFM Controller Certification Advisory Board. He is a regular columnist for the ACFE’s newsletter, The Fraud Examiner and is a frequent contributor to other leading industry publications on anti-fraud topics. He has appeared on Fox Business News, The Wall Street Journal This Morning, The New York Times and Internal Auditor magazine. Peter Goldmann is president of White-Collar Crime 101 LLC, the publisher of White-Collar Crime Fighter, a widely read monthly newsletter for internal auditors, controllers, corporate counsel, financial operations managers and fraud investigators. Peter is the author of Fraud in the Markets: Why it Happens and How to Fight It, published by John Wiley & Sons, as well as four other anti-fraud books. Peter also developed FraudAware, a leading fraud awareness training program.

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