Employee Expense Reimbursement/Travel & Entertainment Fraud Detection and Prevention
Peter Goldmann is president of FraudAware LLC, the publisher of White-Collar CrimeFighter, a widely read monthly newsletter for internal auditors, controllers, corporate counsel, financial operations managers and fraud investigators. The newsletter is in its 15th year of publication under Peter's leadership. Peter is the author of “Fraud in the Markets: Why it Happens and How to Fight It”, published by John Wiley & Sons, as well as four other anti-fraud books. Peter also developed FraudAware, the leading employee fraud awareness training program. A user-friendly learning tool, FraudAware uses workshop, Webinar and E-Learning formats to educate employees and managers at all levels in how to detect, prevent and report incidents of fraud or suspicious conduct. In addition, Peter has conducted numerous on-site fraud detection and prevention workshops for internal auditors, attorneys, HR executives and compliance officers at Fortune 500 companies and large not-for-profit organizations. He has also been a guest lecturer for college accounting and auditing courses.
Expense reimbursement fraud—encompassing the myriad forms of employee travel and entertainment (T&E) schemes as well as Purchasing Card (P-Card) fraud—costs organizations hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars per year. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), expense reimbursement frauds result in a median loss of $26,000 per incident and represent 14.5% of all employee fraud. While many of these schemes are considered “immaterial”—such as claiming reimbursement for a personal meal ... charging a pay-per-view movie to a business-related hotel bill... or inflating the cost of a taxi ride—management should not underestimate the cumulative cost of these thefts. This webinar will summarize the main types of reimbursement fraud to be alert to, including several “real-life” case studies. It will then explain how to identify the red flags of possible reimbursement fraud, offer specific fraud-audit techniques and tests for these crimes and conclude with a rundown of proven anti-fraud controls.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Understand the many types of travel, entertainment, and internal procurement frauds
- Implement effective expense reimbursement fraud detection techniques and build audit practices to detect red flags of these crimes
- Implement best-practice Anti-Fraud Control strategies for expense reimbursement fraud
Who Should Attend
- Internal and external audit professionals
- Accounting and audit practitioners
- HR managers
- Senior financial management seeking to reduce their vulnerability to costly frauds
- Payables specialists
- Procurement managers
- Compliance and ethics managers
- CFO’s/senior financial managers
- Security personnel
Why Should You Attend
- In one case alone, a senior executive of a major multinational company stole $500,000 by abusing his expense account privileges. While this may not be typical of expense reimbursement fraud, it does illustrate how employees who have the opportunity to exploit weaknesses in your organization’s expense reimbursement processes and procedures can do so
- Moreover, anti-fraud experts agree that expense reimbursement fraud can be among the most difficult types of employee crime to detect and prevent. That is in large part due to the extraordinary variety of ways in which such crimes can be committed
- By attending this Webinar, you will learn how vulnerable your organization is to expense reimbursement fraud. You’ll learn about the common and not-so-common ways that these frauds are perpetrated and—most importantly—you’ll learn how to detect the red flags of these schemes, how to audit for them, and how to tighten up your controls against them
COURSE AGENDA
- A statistical overview of the fraud problem generally, and T&E fraud specifically
- Who commits fraud
- Why employees commit fraud (The Fraud Triangle)
- Lessons from T&E fraudsters
COMMON TYPES OF EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT FRAUD TODAY
- Falsifying T&E reimbursement schemes w/bogus receipts
- Submitting T&E claims multiple times
- Abuse of corporate/P-card for personal gain
- Claiming for expenses just under the limit requiring approval
- Purchasing more than needed (e.g. office supplies)
- Exploiting AP/Disbursements control weaknesses
- P-Card fraud
RED FLAGS OF AP FRAUD
- Specific red flags of each of the common expense reimbursement frauds
- The Fraud Risk Mitigation Cycle
- Implementing an organization-wide system for detecting, preventing, and investigating fraud
FRAUD DETECTION
- How T&E Frauds Are Most Often Detected
- Additional General Detection Methods
- Data Mining/Analytics for fraud detection
- Examples of Fraud Audit Techniques at Work
ANTI-FRAUD CONTROLS FOR EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT FRAUD
- Internal Controls and Other T&E Fraud Prevention Measures
- Who Should Manage Anti Fraud Activities
- Internal Controls: Do’s and Don'ts
- General controls: Segregation of Duties, Delegation of Authority, Background Investigation
- Specific Expense reimbursement controls and deterrents
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$200.00
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