All Fraud Risk articles
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WebcastCPE Webcast: Tackling rising fraud risks to achieve global compliance in 2022
As businesses advance through Q2, it’s a time to evaluate progress and ensure a strong business plan for the rest of the year.
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Blog
SEC disciplines Crowe, two partners over audit failures
The SEC has settled charges against Crowe and two of its partners for “significant audit failures” connected to a payroll services firm that went bankrupt.
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SEC warns companies to control phishing losses
The SEC has put companies on notice that their internal controls need to consider the risk of cyber-attack, especially e-mail “phishing” scams.
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Buyer-funded developments equal fraud
Buyer beware: A pattern is emerging with buyer-funded developments—investors tempted by high-yield returns, only to see the projects collapse and their investments disappear.
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Recent findings raise fresh questions over auditors and fraud
Recent findings against PwC illuminate audit failures that the PCAOB has been harping on for years, although its ultimate weight on auditors' duty to find fraud is not yet clear.
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Auditors tasked to study revenue readiness at year-end
Auditors are under clear orders from their regulators to show no mercy in their assessment of corporate transition to the new revenue recognition rules.
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PCAOB alerts auditors to scrutinize revenue recognition
The PCAOB is putting auditors on notice to take a careful look at the work companies have done to implement the new revenue recognition standard.
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Companies gear up for Q4 dash to revenue rule ready date
As the fourth quarter approaches, companies are expected to break into a sprint to complete their efforts to adopt new revenue recognition requirements.
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Study asserts link between control weaknesses, fraud
Academics say they have identified a link between internal control weaknesses and later revelations of fraud, lending fresh support to key provisions of SOX.
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Have you vetted fraud risk under new revenue standard?
The risk of fraud in revenue recognition is growing as companies’ sluggish adoption of new rules creates fresh opportunities for would-be perpetrators.
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To combat fraud, check accounting policies, internal controls
In the battle against fraud and restatements, a company’s best allies are strong accounting policies and well-documented internal controls, a new report says.
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The routineness of non-compliant conduct
Tom Fox explores a new book entitled “Why They Do It” from Eugene Soltes, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, which shows a certain “mundaneness” to white-collar crime.
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COSO issues new fraud risk management guide
COSO, author of the most widely accepted internal control framework in the United States has released a new guide meant to help companies beef up their fraud risk management. More from Tammy Whitehouse.
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FERF Updates Latest Fraud Defense Tactics
The Financial Executives Research Foundation has put some fresh research and analysis to the fraud conundrum, offering companies some new insights on how to address an old problem. FERF says fraud risk is growing rather than declining for companies, despite plenty of regulatory and legislative efforts to the contrary. More ...