How Fraud Hurts You and Your Organization

To help the U.S. business community provide corporate fraud prevention training to personnel at all levels, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) have developed a one-hour CD-ROM, entitled How Fraud Hurts You and Your Organization.

The CD assumes no prior knowledge about fraud and shows, through vivid, real-life examples, how trusted employees at all levels can become tempted to commit fraud. It explains what all employees can do to help protect their jobs and their organizations from fraud. In video clips from interviews, three individuals convicted of fraud explain how they fell into the trap of thinking that embezzling money from their organization, or "cooking the books," would solve their problems. In fact, it made the problems much worse. In one of the cases, the company fell into bankruptcy, with employees losing their jobs and investors losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

The entry-level worker, the accounting manager and the senior member of management featured in the CD make the issue of fraud relevant to everyone from the CEO to the newest hire. The CD includes a brief course on fraud theory, including the three elements of the "Fraud Triangle" that must be present for fraud to occur.

This CD-ROM is gratis with an $8.80 shipping and handling fee. If you are interested in obtaining multiple copies of How Fraud Hurts You and Your Organization, please call 888-777-7077.