Managing Fraud Risk: A Practical Guide for Directors and Managers

About this Book

The book is organised around 10 Chapters. Each one covers an important aspect of fraud and ends by setting out five key learning points for directors and managers. The book is peppered with examples from headline cases and my own experience, together with practical tips and advice.

This is a unique book, both because of its practical approach and because of its business focus. It analyses corporate fraud, not from a theoretical, legal or investigative point of view but from a business perspective. This book concentrates on internal, occupational fraud and places it firmly in its proper business context, that of risk management. This is a business book that summarises for directors and managers the modern anti-fraud approach. It provides them with a menu of options from which to choose those methodologies, controls and techniques that are most suited to the individual circumstances of their organisations so that they can manage fraud risk effectively.

The book's other key feature is its practical approach. This extends well beyond my own thoughts and experiences. It combines all that I have learned in over 20 years of fighting fraud as investigator, consultant and lecturer with the perceptions, experiences and observations of many hundreds of business people to produce a menu of anti-fraud options for directors and managers to choose from.

How is this possible? Well, to start with, examples from my own experiences are given throughout the book, in particular the ...