What drives fraud? Bad actors, both inside and outside an organization.

What allows bad actors to perpetuate fraud? In many cases, it’s bad processes and controls. Often, bad processes are the product of inefficiencies, gaps, lack of transparency, and poor control management, all of which allow bad actors to exploit an organization’s financial reporting weak spots and pursue their fraud undetected.

Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass. Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com LinkedIn:...