A reminder to compliance executives that it might be a good time to check what’s going on with your firm’s reporting hotline, if you haven’t done so lately: Recent data shows fraud incident reporting by employees is on the decline.

Following a surge of in-house fraud reporting last year, fraud incident reports have returned to nearly the same levels as second quarter of 2008, according to data from the Quarterly Corporate Fraud Index analyzed by The Network Inc. and BDO Consulting.