Commentary on fraud, scams, scandals, and court cases.
 

Why Fraud Prevention is So Important (and how to get started!)

Fraud is big business. Companies are at the greatest risk of fraud from their employees, since the employees have easy access to information and assets. We don’t know for sure how much fraud happens, but experts estimate that companies lose 5% of their revenues to employee fraud. At a company …

An average company wasted $1.7 million on SOX 404 Compliance last year

Financial Executives International polled companies for the 7th year in a row to determine how much it costs to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This year, they talked to 185 companies with average annual revenues of $4.7 billion. The total average cost of compliance was $1.7 million …