Fraud Prevention

This handbook helps managers identify the warning signs of internal fraud and enables them to implement the appropriate procedures for investigation.

Examples of high profile cases where fraudsters have covered their tracks

This offers practical tools that will enable you to evaluate the hazards that might damage your IT systems and apply precautionary measures to areas that might be affected. This exercise will also help in determining the nature and extent of insurance cover against key risks.

When you have completed this unit, you will understand what bribery is, and how it presents itself using real business cases. After considering your own attitude to corruption and how it is defined, you will learn how corruption risk spreads within an organization. The impact of bribery and corruption on your organization is explained, and links with criminal networks an terrorism are explored.

When you have completed this unit, you will know how bribery is regulated, and know what the risks to your organization are; both internal and external. You will learn about the legal framework surrounding bribery and corruption, including the 2010 Bribery Act. You will discover how bribery and corruption happen, especially within supply chains. Corruption with agents and distributors is explained, and you receive have some guidelines on how bribery can be detected within your organization.

When you have completed this unit, you will understand how and where bribery can occur, and be able to develop policies to manage the risk of bribery taking place within your organization. You will gain insight into how corrupt behaviour works, and how it is detected by enforcement agencies. You will know what happens when bribery is detected, and learn how to manage an enforcement raid in the event bribery is detected within your organization.

When you have completed this unit, you will be able to communicate to staff the importance of managing bribery, and analyse your own organisation for bribery risk. You will have a framework to manage attitudes to bribery and corruption within your organisation. The Bribery Act requires ‘Adequate Procedures’ are in place to prevent bribery, and you will receive a model to enable you to identify adequate procedures that are right for your organisation. Finally, you will understand the benefits of

Guidance and risk assessment tool-kit on how to minimise information security risks associated with third parties.