Employee Fraud

Payroll Fraud

by Arnold Shields 6 November 2009

The payroll is the largest expense area for many organisations, and one which should be controlled carefully. Nevertheless, payroll fraud accounts for 17% of all fraudulent disbursements suffered by organisations. There are three main types of payroll fraud – Ghost Employees, Overcompensation, and Bonus and Commission Schemes.

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Employee Fraud: High Risk but Low Priority?

by Arnold Shields 15 September 2009

One of the key tasks for managers of organisations is to reduce the risk of events which will affect the ability of their organisation to achieve its goals. These include risks in the areas of occupational health and safety, finances, market and competitors, supply, compliance and regulatory, currency, professional, disaster and fraud. Managers are usually proactive in reducing all of these risks – except fraud. Why is this?

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Internet Banking Fraud – Clive Peeters Case

by Arnold Shields 12 August 2009

One of the most common forms of employee fraud that we have been seeing for quite some time involves access to internet banking. Businesses often have two signatories for company cheques but allow full single user access to their internet banking. The result is an accident waiting to happen.

An internet banking fraud of $20 million was reported today in the Sydney Morning Herald involved the payroll manager of listed white goods retailer, Clive Peters.

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Case Study 2: Fraud

by Arnold Shields 21 July 2009

It was expected that the fraud was relatively small. Over the course of the investigation, it was found that the fraud had been going on for a number of years.

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The Transition of Employee Fraud within an Organisation

by Arnold Shields 12 June 2009

The organisation that does not set boundaries effectively exposes itself to actions by employees that may threaten the entire business.

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Workplace Culture and Employee Fraud

by Arnold Shields 10 March 2009

When it comes to employee fraud, prevention is definitely better than cure. So why do executives who routinely minimize other risks to their organisation fail to address one of the most commonly occurring threats – employee fraud? Perhaps they believe that they would notice any fraud before it became serious, or that their employees are all trustworthy, or it is the auditor’s job to spot fraud, or that this is an area that is too organizationally difficult to for them to address.

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