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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819751203321

Autore

Kovacich Gerald L

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-281-02931-9

9786611029319

0-08-055098-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/73

Soggetti

Commercial crimes

Commercial crimes - Investigation

Fraud - Prevention

Fraud investigation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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