The most important step in preventing credit card fraud is 

Sally was a secretary/assistant bookkeeper at a local non-profit food pantry. Part of her duties included opening mail, processing invoices, and authorizing payments. She used her position to intentionally pay some bills twice, then requested that recipients return one of the checks which she then intercepted and subsequently deposited into her own bank account. Sally’s scheme is known as a 

There are two methods that perpetrators who commit fraudulent register disbursements use to impeded detection. These are:

Billing schemes generally fall into one of three categories: shell company schemes, non-accomplice vendor schemes, and 

Shell companies, for the purposes of the discussion in the text, are fictitious entities created for the sole purpose of

If a company changes the way it keeps its books from one year to the next, and if these changes have a material impact on the financial statements, they must be disclosed in a note. Fraud occurs when _________________ is intentionally avoided to show false profits.

Management has some latitude to manage earnings as long as the choices are considered _________, however, any sign of deliberate efforts to do so should be considered a red flag by auditors, because it can be fraud, whether or not material.

_________________ must take the lead in establishing, implementing, and maintaining a formal fraud risk management program.

The UK Bribery Act parallels the FCPA in many aspects, however, one key difference is that the former provides no exception for

In most cases, asset misappropriation, corruption, and financial statement fraud last about ________________ from inception to conclusion.