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Fraud Tip Friday: Small Dollars, Big Problems

Last week, a Transit supervisor and five others were charged in connection with a scheme to steal over $2 million from the agency. The kicker: the payments were under the limit of $5,000 – roughly speaking, that’s over 400 payments!

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March 22, 2019, IIA Philadelphia's Annual Fraud Symposium Sponsored by Baker Tilly - Register Today!

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Fraud and Compliance Master Class in Chicago, Illinois on March 20 and 21, 2019

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Combating Fraud Through Effective Internal Controls

“Fraud is not an accounting problem; it is a social phenomenon.” Joe WellsMost companies will not readily admit that their organizations may be vulnerable to fraud.According to the 2020 Report to the Nations published by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (“ACFE”), which contains an analysis of approximately 2,500 cases of occupational fraud that were investigated between January 2018 and September 2019, organizations lose 5% of their annual revenues to fraud. While this number is only a general estimate based on the opinion, it represents the collective observations of anti-fraud experts who together have investigated hundreds of thousands of fraud cases. Based on the ACFE’s study, the median loss caused by frauds was $125,000, with 21.0% of the cases resulting in losses of at least $1 million.

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Fraud tip Friday! The Grand Illusion

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Collusion, Conflicts of Interest, and Corruption!

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Investigation Roundtable on January 23, 2019, in Center City Philadelphia - Register Today! CPE/CLE

Investigation Roundtable on January 23, 2019, in Center City Philadelphia

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Board Members Take Note: SEC Chair Clayton Speaks on 2019 Initiatives and Market Risks

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Focus on the Bad Actors! DOJ Outlines Key Policy Revisions Re-Focusing on Individual Accountability

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Robotic Process Automation: Using Technology for Forensic Investigations and Compliance

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Fraud and Related Party Transactions

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Compliance Thought Leaders You Should Be Following

Compiling a list of thought leaders in ethics and compliance is fun, but so challenging. There are simply too many thoughtful people in this field — which is itself enormous and wide-ranging — to call out everyone worth following. So below is a small slice of the thinkers in corporate ethics and compliance that I try to follow.

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Today’s General Counsel: White Collar Crooks Share Certain Characteristics

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How Tight is Your Grip on Cash?

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FCPA - Cash, Bribes, and the “Four Eyes Principle”

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News Release: Baker Tilly Strengthens Growing Forensic Litigation Valuation Services Practice with Addition of Industry Leader Jonathan T. Marks

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FCPA Settlement - Petrobras Board Involved

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Perfect Place Syndrome and the 10-80-10 Rule to Ethics

At some point it appears there was a human behavior theory that was possibly applied to fraud risk management and the 10-80-10 Rule to Ethics was born.This theory is based on the assumption that 10 percent of the people are ethical all of the time, 80 percent could behave unethically depending on the situation or the pressure(s) being applied, and 10 percent have no or a severely broken moral compass and will pounce on opportunities to commit fraud.

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Putting the Freud in Fraud - Part Two

While we can't get into the mind of the white collar criminal, we can take a closer look at high-profile individuals who have perpetrated massive fraud at corporations and instances of fraud identified in practice, as well as some research, to help is identify a pattern of similar behavioral elements common to white-collar crooks and cultural elements common to their environments.

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2019 IIA Philadelphia Fraud Symposium - Update

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